Canadian visa application centers are now open in these countries, and visa application centers are more available to those looking to Canada as permanent residents, foreign workers, students and visitors.
In recent weeks, more visa application centers around the world have reopened to provide services for those looking to Canada.
Visa application centers enable individuals to submit their vital data as part of the requirements established by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Individuals provide their fingerprints and photos and pay fees as part of the bio-metrics collection process. Canada acquires bio-metrics to facilitate travel to the country.
Since March, visa application centers have been closed as part of global measures to contain the corona virus.
The list of open visa application centers is constantly updated by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada website, so the following list may not contain all of the currently open visa application centers :
• Australia
- Melbourne
- Sydney
• Austria
- Vienna
• the two seas
- Manama
• Barbados
- Bridgetown
• China
- Beijing
- Chengdu
- Chongqing
- Guangzhou
- Hangzhou
- Jinan
- Kunming
- Nanjing
- Shanghai
- Shenyang
• Fiji
- Suva
• France
- Paris
• Germany
- Berlin
- Dusseldorf
• Ghana
- Accra
• Greece
- Athena
• Iraq
- Erbil
• Israel
- Tel Aviv
• Italia
- Rome
• Japan
- Osaka
- Tokyo
• Malaysia
- Kuala Lumpur
• New Zealand
- Auckland
• Romania
- Bucharest
• Serbia
- Belgrade
• Spain
- Madrid
• Sri Lanka
- Colombo
• Thailand
- Bangkok
• Holland
- The Hague
• Trinidad and Tobago
- Port of Spain
• The United Arab Emirates
- AbuDhabi
- Dubai
If your local visa application center is closed, what do you do?
Through immigration, refugees and Canadian citizenship. Continue to provide updates to those who cannot provide their bio-metrics at this time.
You will not refuse to apply someone who is unable to provide their bio-metrics. Through immigration, refugees and Canadian citizenship. It will keep their applications open by providing them with automatic extensions on deadlines for bio-metrics. Individuals do not have to give their bio-metrics until visa application centers sites are reopened.
Temporary foreign workers, will be exempt from the need to submit their bio-metrics abroad, and they will be employed as laborers to work in Canada as truck drivers, in the healthcare and agricultural sectors. This is if they have never submitted their bio-metrics to Canada, and exempt Temporary foreign workers enable them to do so when they arrive in Canada.