Proposed federal tool to ‘blacklist a country,’ stop visa processing alarms immigration lawyers

Tucked into the budget bill, the measure would let the feds stop processing certain visa and permit applications for countries they deem unhelpful in deportation proceedings.

Border Security Minister Bill Blair’s office says the proposed measure means Canada has a way to respond when delays by countries to issue travel documents ‘are unreasonable.’The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

May 1, 2019

The Liberals’ omnibus budget bill gives the government a political tool to stop issuing some visas or permits to people from countries it deems difficult to deal with in deportation proceedings, a measure some immigration lawyers are calling “overly broad” and a...

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