Last week, Sean Fraser, Canada’s immigration minister visited Winnipeg to make a major announcement that benefited citizens of several countries, including the Philippines.
In short, people from the Philippines who have visited Canada in the past 10 years, or those who have a valid United States visa, can now apply to enter Canada by air without a traditional visiting visa.
That is big news as thousands of people will directly benefit and nowhere will it be felt more than here in Winnipeg.
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Sean Fraser (centre), federal minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, Rechie Valdez (left) MP for Mississauga, and Kevin Lamoureux, MP for Winnipeg North, made an announcement regarding visa-free travel at Winnipeg’s Richardson International Airport on June 6.
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