- Who runs it
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada / Immigration, réfugiés et citoyenneté Canada
- Can it affect people?
- Yes. It may support a decision about a person, such as access to a service, place, payment, or permit.
- Possible rights impact: Direct decision or access
How much do we know?
A source is a published page or document behind a claim. The label measures what is documented, not whether a system is good or safe. Missing information does not prove that a safeguard is missing.
Sources and further reading
- Government of Canada AI Register / Government of Canada AI Register
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The interface and explanatory guides are translated. Record names, record descriptions, quotations, detailed editorial notes, and linked public documents stay in their published language so evidence is not silently changed.
What it does
AAST is a processing aid to help staff complete administrative tasks for immigration applications, including data matching and bulk email creation. Biometric enrolments are completed by Visa Application Centres (VACs) and IRCC offices. The client is photographed and fingerprinted using Government of Canada software and hardware and basic biographic details are exported and entered into the Biometric Module in AAST. Immigration medical examinations are conducted by Panel Physicians who submit the information electronically to IRCC, which is then entere...
If this affects someone
Client photographs and fingerprints, biographic data, immigration medical examination data
Sources and further reading
First indexed from Government of Canada AI Register on 2026-09-04. Only usable fields from the public record are shown; missing answers remain blank.
Fields were mapped from the linked public record by deterministic code. No generative model wrote this text.
Facts to check
- Who runs it
- Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada / Immigration, réfugiés et citoyenneté Canada
- Life area
- Public sector
- Proof level
- Source-backed
- Footnotes
- 1
- updated
- 2 days ago
The score orders work, not people.
Review priority rises for rights-sensitive uses, missing sources, unanswered accountability fields, and old evidence. Strong official documentation lowers it. The score is not a verdict on safety, fairness, or legality.
A missing field means the attached public sources did not answer it. Coverage is uneven, publication does not prove performance, and a certificate has a defined boundary.
Previous versions
- Imported13 days agoPartialImported from Government of Canada AI Register.
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