Entire panels planned for a global conference next month in Montreal are on hiatus because participants lack a visa to enter Canada
“It’s incredibly frustrating and difficult for us to manage,” said Mark Boyer, head of the International Studies Association, which is based at the University of Connecticut.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
“It is so complicated, and it seems this is common for young people and the Global South,” Vargas said in an interview from Colombia. Vargas said a Colombian agency that handles foreign visas told her that Canada is notoriously unreliable for issuing visas. She has filed a Privacy Act request to find out why she was so swiftly denied a visa.Article content
The ISA faced visa delays for a Toronto conference in 2019. This time around, organizers worked with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to try preventing such snags.Article content Applicants from numerous countries are facing delays, and ISA has a large cohort in India where visas seem to take five months to be processed.
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