Completed Access to Information Requests

Request Number:
A-2025-07070
December 2025
Summary:

Final records from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2024, regarding all briefing notes, memos, presentations, statistics, reports, and manuals, related to the use of third-party genetic genealogy testing by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Including the number of CBSA accounts registered with commercial genetic genealogy companies per year; the number of individuals impacted each year by these accounts; which commercial genetic genealogy companies the CBSA has worked with; the most current, up to date versions of documents in use related to the current policy of the CBSA and use of commercial genetic genealogy testing; all countries that are subject to genetic genealogy testing by the CBSA. Exclude emails, drafts, and rough copies of documents.

Disposition:
Disclosed in part
Pages:
24
Organization:
Canada Border Services Agency