Citizenship And Immigration Canada: Federal Policy

Canadian High Commissions Dept: The new federal policy, which took effect Monday, means visa services will no longer be available at Canadian embassies in Tokyo, Berlin and Tehran as well as Canadian High Commissions in Malaysia and Bangladesh, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, according to Vancouver Sun. "My big concern is this will give the wrong message about Canada being open for business," said Sharon Curl, owner of Eurocentres Canada ESL schools in Vancouver and Toronto and canada has stopped issuing visas from some of its diplomatic missions, a move some education officials worry will drive students away from British Columbia's billion-dollar international education industry and into the arms of competing countries. Applicants will now have to apply for visas through embassies in other countries - the Philippines in the case of Japan and Austria in the case of Germany. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.