Visa and immigration section of Canadian Embassy in Damascus closed
Due to the continuing violence in Syria, the Visa and Immigration Section of the Canadian Embassy in Damascus has been is closed and services have been transferred to neighbouring visa offices.
The changes mean that the visa offices in Beirut, Lebanon, and Jordan, Amman, now become full service offices, Jason Kenney, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism minister said.
‘Now applicants in those countries will have access to full immigration services in their home country,’ he explained.
The visa office in Jordan will also be responsible for all applications from Iraq, while the visa office in Ankara in Turkey will take care of immigration applications from Iran.
Once the Damascus office is able to reopen it will be responsible for all applications from Syria. Until that time, anyone in Syria who wants to submit a temporary resident application should apply through the visa office in Lebanon or Jordan.
Syrian nationals outside of Syria can submit their application to any other Canadian visa office and permanent resident applications from Syrian nationals have been transferred to Jordan.
The visa office in Damascus currently has approximately 300 active files from persons residing in Syria that are at the final stages and are visa ready. These files have been transferred to Jordan for final processing and visa issuance.
The remaining refugee resettlement cases for persons residing in Syria have been transferred to a secure location and processing will resume once the visa office in Damascus is able to re-open. The refugee resettlement cases for persons residing outside of Syria follows the same regional redistribution where processing will resume.
The closure of the visa office follows an announcement made by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) on the Government of Canada’s reduced diplomatic staff in Syria.
‘The situation in Syria is too volatile and we need to find a more permanent solution for processing applications in the area. This redistribution means that we are able to bring more services closer to applicants,’ said Kenney.
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