01 July 2020
• Canada Visa Application Centres closed
Following Ministerial Instructions issued by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada on April 9, April 29, May 19, June 9 and July 1, 2020 applicants can no longer submit an application for temporary residence in paper at the VAC. New Ministerial Instructions issued on July 1, 2020 have extended this measure until September 30, 2020. All applications for temporary residence must continue to be submitted online via IRCC’s website:
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.html
If you submitted an application for temporary residence in paper to the VAC on or after April 10, 2020, your application will be returned to you.
Please note that as of July 1, 2020, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada has also lifted the suspension on the processing of temporary resident visa (visitor visa) applications. Although processing of applications has resumed, travel restrictions to Canada remain in place. For more details, visit the
IRCC website.
Canada has stopped accepting visa applications until further notice in Wuhan (China), Rome (Italy), Ankara & Istanbul (Turkey), Rangoon (Myanmar), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Niamey (Niger), Bamako (Mali), Recife (Brazil), Doha (Qatar), Cape Town & Pretoria (South Africa), Montevideo (Uruguay), Erbil (Iraq), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Lagos & Abuja (Nigeria), Nairobi (Kenya), Kigali (Rwanda) Dublin (Ireland), London (UK), Kinshasa (DR Congo), Lima (Peru), Los Angeles & New York (USA), La Paz (Bolivia), Santiago (Chile), Caracas (Venezuela), Amman (Jordan), Algiers (Algeria), Cebu & Manila (Philippines), Yerevan (Armenia), Skopje (Macedonia), Georgetown (Guyana), Bridgetown (Barbados), Kingston & Montego Bay (Jamaica), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Harare (Zimbabwe), Santa Domingo (Dominican Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Kathmandu (Nepal), Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan), Kampala (Uganda), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Brasilia (Brazil), Novosibirsk & Yekaterinburg (Russia), Rabat (Morocco), Jakarta (Indonesia), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Bali (Indonesia), Port Au Prince (Haiti), Dublin (Ireland), Colombia, Asuncion (Paraguay), Tunis (Tunisia), Lviv & Kiev (Ukraine), and Tbilisi (Georgia), Kuwait City (Kuwait), Muscat (Oman), Mexico City (Mexico), San Jose (Costa Rica), Managua (Nicaragua), Porto Alegre (Brazil), Port Louis (Mauritius), La Paz (Bolivia), Dakar (Senegal), Pristina (Kosovo), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Conakry (Guinea), Quito (Ecuador), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), San Salvador (El Salvador), Panama City (Panama), Yaoundé (Cameroon), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Buenos Aires and Mendoza (Argentina), Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar (Saudi Arabia), Dusseldorf and
Singapore, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), New Delhi, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai (India), Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg (Russia), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Bogota, Medellin and Cali (Colombia) and Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet (Bangladesh).