The processing time for temporary resident visas (TRV) for Pakistani applicants has been slashed from 802 days to just 60 days, with a potential future reduction to 30 days, according to Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship of Canada.
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The Minister explained on Twitter that older applications that were submitted during travel restrictions related to the coronavirus are still being processed, which is why Canada’s official website displays 802 days.
Attention Pakistani visa applicants ????
— Sean Fraser (@SeanFraserMP) May 4, 2023
Visa processing times are not 802 days for new applications. Currently, a complete TRV application from Pakistan will be processed in 60 days, and we expect to hit 30 days in the near future.
He revealed that fewer than 15 percent of the 55,000 applications for Pakistani TRVs had been processed. Fraser also revealed that the Canadian government plans to expand the processing and interviewing capacity of the area by opening a new processing center in Islamabad. Canada will quicken the process of obtaining business visas.
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Leslie Scanlon, the Canadian government’s high commissioner to Pakistan, previously informed Syed Naveed Qamar, the minister of commerce, that Canada is working to expedite the visa application process for the Pakistani business community. The envoy met with the commerce minister to go over ways to improve trade ties between the two nations.
The Minister praised the upcoming Canadian General Preferential Tariff (GPT+) program for developing nations and expressed hope that this program would benefit Pakistan, particularly its newly proposed industries such as apparel and footwear.
