The list of visa exempt countries has been enlarged
Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania and Hungary have been added to the list of visa exempt countries.
On March 1, 2008 Canadian immigration minister, Diane Finley, finally heeded the increasingly louder calls to lift the visa requirements on nationals from these countries. The European Union extended membership to them in May 2004 and has been waiting ever since for Canada to extend to the nationals of these countries the same treatment offered to other European travelers. CIC announced that it would continue to work on the cases of Bulgaria and Romania, which only joined the EU in January 2007, and whose nationals still need visas to visit here.
Post Date: 03/11/08