The Visa Application Centres (VACs) will be open for one year, effective today, and will only offer biometric collection services for Canadian visas. According to the IRCC news release on Nov. 23, the new VACs are located on the Westcoast in Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California. Like the recent announcement of VACs reopening in…
Effective today, select Visa Application Centres (VACs) across India will reopen to issue biometrics and other services. The High Commission of Canada in India released via tweet that starting Nov. 20, VACs in the following Indian cities would resume services: Delhi Chandigarh Jalandhar Mumbai Ahmedabad Bengaluru VACs in Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, and Hyderabad remain temporarily…
In recognition of the ongoing service disruptions for those applying for Canadian permanent residence, IRCC is relaxing the biometrics requirements for some applicants. IRCC has already created several biometrics exemptions for some temporary workers. Additionally, when IRCC introduced a two-stage student permit application process, students could receive approval-in-principal for their permit so they can begin…
IRCC is gradually resuming some in-person services for citizenship, permanent residence, asylum, and biometrics collection. IRCC is only offering in-person services by appointment only and they will contact you to schedule the appointments. This gradual reopening of in-person services is part of a testing phase for IRCC. The services being offered, effective September 21, are…
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, temporary resident applications from within Canada are exempt from providing biometrics until further notice. Prior to this announcement, temporary residents in Canada were given an extension of their existing status in Canada and an extended deadline to provide biometrics. This new announcement means that IRCC can now render a…
In response to changing COVID-19 conditions, a select number of Canadian Visa Application Centres (VACs) are beginning to reopen. The majority remain closed but as of June 11, 2020, the following centres have opened with limited operations: Tel Aviv, Israel Erbil, Iraq Vienna, Austria Düsseldorf, Germany Abu Dhabi, UAE Tokyo, Japan Osaka, Japan The Hague,…
With ongoing COVID-19 related visa service interruptions, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) have temporarily exempted some foreign workers from having to provide biometrics before coming to Canada. This exemption only applies to essential workers in the agricultural and healthcare fields, along with the occupations that support these industries, that are coming from a location…
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