Canada’s intelligence plan leaked, are visas of Indians being deliberately rejected and cancelled?

News India Live, Digital Desk: Is this bad news for millions of Indians dreaming of moving to Canada? Is the Canadian government deliberately rejecting visas from Indian applicants? These questions are being raised because an internal ‘secret’ plan of the Canadian government has come to light, revealing an aggressive strategy to reduce the backlog of Indian visa applications. Under this plan, it has been said that thousands of visa applications will be rejected or canceled outright.

What is this ‘Visa Cancellation Plan’ of Canada?

This shocking information has come to light from internal government documents obtained by a Canadian media organization under Freedom of Information. According to these documents, Canada’s Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC) is working on a new strategy to deal with the huge pile of applications from India. There are two main parts to this strategy:

1. Cancellation of ‘Inactive’ applications: Under this, those applications will be directly canceled in which the applicants have not timely responded to the additional information or documents sought by IRCC.
2. Rejecting ‘low quality’ applications: If any deficiency is found in an application or documents are incomplete, it will be summarily rejected as ‘low quality’. Earlier in such cases, there was scope for officials to ask for additional information, which is now being abolished.

Why is Canada adopting this approach?

The Canadian government says that the number of applications coming from India is very high, which has put a huge burden on the system and the backlog is increasing. The purpose of this “cleanliness campaign” is to eliminate this backlog rapidly. The documents clearly set targets as to the number of applications to be canceled and rejected.

Is this injustice to Indians?

After this revelation, many Canadian immigration lawyers and consultants have strongly criticized this plan of the government. They say that this scheme is injustice to thousands of honest applicants who have been waiting for the decision on their applications for years. Many times, due to delay in the government process, applicants are not able to respond on time, and now they are being punished for this.

This news has added fuel to the ongoing tense relations between India and Canada. Although this plan is not directly related to the bad relations between the two countries, but in this environment it is also being seen as an attempt to target Indians.

Overall, this revelation has created a new worry and uncertainty in the minds of thousands of Indians dreaming of moving to Canada. Now there will be a need to be even more careful while applying for a visa.