Canada grants visa exemption to 13 more countries for eligible travellers || Citizens from an additional 13 countries are now eligible for visa-free travel to Canada

Moment, Sean Fraser, the Minister of Immigration, Deportees and Citizenship, made an sanctioned visit to Winnipeg to make an important advertisement regarding visa-free trip.

Effective incontinently, citizens holding passports from 13 countries will now be suitable to travel to Canada by air without the need for a Temporary Residence Visa.

still, this honor applies only to individualities from these countries who have moreover held a Canadian visa within the last 10 times or presently retain a validnon-immigrant visa issued by the United States.

The eligible trippers

include passport holders from the following countries

 Philippines

Morocco

Panama

Antigua and Barbuda

St Kitts and Nevis

St Lucia

St Vincent and Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Argentina

Costa Rica

Uruguay

Seychelles

Thailand

Minister Fraser stressed the sweats of Immigration, Deportees and Citizenship Canada( IRCC) in simplifying, expediting, and reducing the cost of the pretravel webbing process.

This decision will deflect a significant number of operations down from Canada's visa caseload, enabling the IRCC to reuse visa operations with lesser effectiveness.

A analogous airman program was successfully enforced in Brazil in 2017.

The Minister noted that this action led to a 40 increase in callers from Brazil to Canada and a 60 reduction in the caseload at the IRCC's Sao Paulo office.

This drop in workload allowed IRCC officers to allocate further time to handling complex operations.

While further than 50 countries have visa-pure status for entering Canada, utmost of them bear an Electronic Travel Authorization( eTA) for air trip.

United States citizens are pure from taking an eTA or a visa to enter Canada unless their purpose is to work or study in the country.

individualities from countries not pure from the visa demand must apply for a Temporary Residence Visa( TRV), generally known as a caller visa.

A TRV permits an individual to visit Canada for a maximum duration of six months( although this period may vary for certain foreign citizens).

It's important to note that arriving in Canada with a TRV doesn't grant the holder authorization to work or study in the country.

At the harborage of entry, they may be needed to demonstrate that their visit to Canada is solely temporary in nature, similar as for tourism or visiting family.

presently, the IRCC is addressing a backlog of TRV operations.

The most recent data from the IRCC indicates that 50 of TRV operations aren't being reused within the standard service timeframe of 14 days.

Minister Fraser conceded that the recent strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada has significantly impacted TRV operations.

The strike, which lasted from April 19 to May 1, redounded in a backlog of 100,000 undressed operations during that period.

still, the Minister expressed confidence that the IRCC will be suitable to recapturepre-pandemic processing norms in the forthcoming weeks or many months.