GI-2026-25-reg3: Rules Amending the Refugee Protection Division Rules

This regulation primarily affects refugee claimants and their legal representatives — immigration lawyers and consultants — rather than businesses in the traditional sense. If you represent refugee claimants, you'll need to adapt to tighter document deadlines: personal documents must now be filed within 30 days of a claim being referred to the RPD (down from 10 days before a hearing), and changes to basis of claim information must be submitted no later than 5 days after receiving a notice to appear. The government has confirmed the one-for-one rule does not apply and the small business lens finds no impact on Canadian businesses, since all obligations fall on individuals. Legal aid organizations may face increased pressure from clients who struggle to gather and translate documents within the tighter timeframes, though an existing late-filing application process remains available for exceptional circumstances.