Ottawa: Protecting Canada S Immigration System Act

Ottawa Dept: The countries are mostly from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, but the biometrics requirement will also extend to Haiti, Jamaica and Colombia, according to The Star. Earlier this week, Ottawa exercised its powers from the same law to designate five carloads of Romanian refugee claimants crossing the Quebec border as irregular arrivals, stripping them of the basic rights afforded to other asylum seekers and starting in 2013, visitors to Canada from 29 countries and a territory must pay an extra $85 for Ottawa to collect their fingerprints and photos when they apply for visas. It is yet another measure Ottawa is imposing under the Protecting Canada s Immigration System Act passed in June to tighten border entry into Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.