Access to Information Act, Privacy Act, Annual Report 2020-2021

In 2019-2020, IRCC received 74.80% percent of all Access to Information requests and 20.30% of all Privacy requests submitted to federal government institutions. The growth in the number of ATIP requests over the past several years has been unprecedented.
IRCC is unique in that most of the requests it receives under the Access to Information Act are for the personal information of its clients. This is because the majority of its requests concern IRCC clients who are foreign nationals that rely on representatives to submit an Access to Information Act request on their behalf and with their consent to seek information about their IRCC immigration file.
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