Certain available reports suggest that all tourists from the visa-exempt countries–who could be keen to arrive on the soils of Canada–will have to fulfill a fresh prerequisite. The latest measure will be valid for the visitors from every nation with the sole exemption being the US visitors.

Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA)

The said program is a fresh instrument for the efficient administration of migration even as it will assist the nation spot the overseas people who could be prohibited. The program in question will have a screening for the overseas guests, prior to they leave for the Maple Country. The goal of Ottawa is to ease travel for those out-of-the-country people, who may be believed to be low-risk, and stop those who could be prohibited travelers from the visa-exempt countries. All keen air travelers to the country will have the facility to file a petition for an ETA—without any difficulties whatsoever and online. Positive answer will be sent across to a sizeable section of the candidates inside just some minutes.

Fresh prerequisites for overseas travelers to Canada

These are the fresh bunch of ETA program perquisites for the people from abroad from the visa-exempt countries keen to fly to the Maple Country:

• Overseas individuals will have to fill an online petition at the official website of the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). The same will be necessary to make certain that they have not be marked risky or prevented by Immigration Canada, for the purpose of travel to the nation.
• Such people will have to proffer biometric data, via the fresh ETA program.
• Authorization, if any, will be given to air-visitors to the nation inside just some minutes. But, in certain cases, a visa officer could well analyze the submissions, prior to giving any final verdict.
• Receiving approval for air travel to the country will have to be duly followed by receiving a printed proof for petition with many travel documents, prior to sitting on a flight to the Maple Country.

The latest rule will become effective by 2015.

Canada ETA Targets

• Stopping overseas visitors–regarded high-risk or not having sufficient papers–from flying to the nation, in the process, significantly decreasing the expenditure involving the removal of the prohibited people from abroad from the nation;
• Well-organized & facilitated processing system for the travelers from abroad regarded to be low-risk for the purpose of travel to Canada.

While we are on the subject, is could be pertinent to mention here that the US already boasts of a comparable program to scrutinize the overseas visitors, for cutting-down on security risks well in advance.