Canada's Crackdown on Visa Fraud #canadavisa #immigration #canada

In January, after finding significant evidence of patterns of abuse in our visitor visas, we put in place new measures to detect fraud. And since then, we've made and seen a major reduction in the number of asylum claims from people who've been issued temporary resident visas and visa refusals are also up by more than 61% with countries where we spotted the highest levels of abuse been distributed a number of charts that evidence that in a more graphic way. You can do with those what you will. But there's a number of important data points we think are significant that chart the course of the progress has been achieved over the last year. That's it. Together, these actions not only enhance Canada's ability to manage those who enter the country but also strengthen border security. They've also proven effective at protecting the Canada US border from a regular southbound crossings. After we imposed the partial visa requirement that I mentioned earlier for Mexican nationals, we've seen a rapid decline in Canada being used as a backdoor into the US a number of Mexican, the Mexican nationals intercepted while trying to cross illegally has fallen by 72% since June alone. I can also report that our height and scrutiny of visitor visa applications has LED to an 89% overall reduction for nationals crossing illegally into the United States over that same period