The Canadian government vowed to review its immigration rules after Canadian visa officers in India barred dozens of people stating grounds that their service in army, police and intelligence units rendered them involved in human-rights violations.
Canada’s immigration law bars anyone from entering Canada, whether on a permanent residency or a visit visa if the person has carried out war crimes or has been involved in terrorism, systematic or gross human rights violation or genocide.
These refusals caused a huge furor in India and the Canadian Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, apologized for the incorrect refusals of the applications. Clearly stating that the visa officers should never have cast aspersions on India’s institutions. He also said “Government of Canada therefore deeply regrets the recent incident in which letters drafted by public service officials during routine visa refusals to Indian nationals cast false aspersions on the legitimacy of work carried out by Indian defence and security institutions, which operate under the framework of democracy and the rule of law”.
He also pledged that Canada will review its policy on declaring foreigners inadmissible.
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