Excessive Number: Czech Citizens

Czech citizens: Canada abolished visas for Czech citizens in 2007 but re-imposed them two years later due to concerns over an excessive number of asylum-seekers, most of them from the country's Roma claiming discrimination at home, according to Times Colonist. "We had a huge wave of unfounded refugee claims from the Czech Republic between 2007 and 2009. The good news is that our reformed refugee system has radically reduced the number of fake claims coming to Canada, for example, from the European Union," Kenney said at a Calgary event on Thursday and CALGARY - A move to lift visa requirements for Czech nationals is on the horizon, says the federal minister who oversaw the move in 2009. Jason Kenney, now minister of Social Development, Employment and Multiculturalism, was the minister of Citizenship and Immigration when the government made the move. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.