Category: border controls

Criminals Found ‘Workarounds’ to Bypass $77 Million Electronic Visa Security Program: Immigration Report

February 26, 2023
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Criminals have found ways to bypass Canada’s multimillion-dollar electronic visa system intended to maintain national security and public safety, according to a federal report recently released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). “Those with malicious intent, including associations with fraud and human trafficking/smuggling movements, have found workarounds,” according to the report titled “Evaluation of the Electronic Travel…

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Stricter Border Controls for Travellers to Begin Feb. 22

February 12, 2021
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OTTAWA—Tighter border controls will come into effect Feb. 22, the prime minister said Friday, not to punish travellers but to try to keep everyone safe. Forcing new arrivals into a mandatory three-day hotel quarantine—at their own expense—and requiring a COVID-19 test when they get here is meant to help ward off new and more transmissible…

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Stricter Border Controls for Travellers to Canada Begin Feb. 22

February 12, 2021
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OTTAWA—Tighter border controls will come into effect Feb. 22, the prime minister said Friday, not to punish travellers but to try to keep everyone safe. Forcing new arrivals into a mandatory three-day hotel quarantine—at their own expense—and requiring a COVID-19 test when they get here is meant to help ward off new and more transmissible…

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Ottawa Says Border Controls Are Sufficient Despite Complaints From Ontario

December 22, 2020
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MONTREAL—Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the federal government is doing enough at the border to protect Canadians from COVID-19. Blair told reporters today Canada’s border controls are some of the strictest in the world and that more than 98 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country are the result of community transmission—not international travel….

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