Officers can now rescind authorization to travel to Canada if they believe a visitor may not leave the country, and revoke visitor visas if holders destroy their passports
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police car leaves Roxham Road, the site where many migrants have previously crossed illegally, in Lacolle, along the Canada-U.S. border, on Feb. 2.Canadian immigration officers have been given broader powers to cancel travel permits and visitor visas under new rules designed to bolster border security and clamp down on fraud.
“A small portion of travellers may be turned back at the airport or at a port of entry in the case of their document being cancelled prior to their entry to Canada,” the notification says. The government expects an additional 7,000 temporary resident visas , also known as visitor visas, as well as work permits and study permits to be cancelled every year as a result of the regulatory changes.
“An electronic travel authorization that was issued to a foreign national is cancelled if … the passport or other travel document in respect of which the electronic travel authorization was issued is lost, stolen or destroyed,” the regulations say. “Destroying one’s personal government documents frustrates any removal because you don’t know who you are dealing with,” he said. “People have historically destroyed passports to make it difficult to deport. Until biometrics replace passports, you are stuck with this.”
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