Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Caracas Airport

Caracas airport: A courier truck leaving the Caracas airport was held at gunpoint on Nov. 11. Two packages containing 61 visa decision letters, including passports, were among the contents stolen, according to Toronto Star. The Star requested an interview with the department on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, the department issued a brief statement outlining the incident and The federal government reported 300 breaches of Canadian private information in 2014, including a dramatic robbery of a courier truck carrying passports in Venezuela last November, the Star has learned. Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the department transferring the passports from the visa office in Mexico City to Caracas, informed the privacy commissioner of the breach on Nov. 26 according to documents obtained under access to information law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.