Citizens Canada exempts from the visitor visa
Not a bloc and not a treaty: a schedule to a Canadian regulation. Paragraph 190(1)(a) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations exempts a citizen of a country listed in Schedule 1.1 from the temporary resident visa, and the Schedule is a bare list of states with no condition attached to any of them.
**Of this corpus it reaches seven.** The Bahamas, Barbados and Chile from Latin America and the Caribbean; Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain from the European members we cover. Every other country here is either in the table to section 7.01 or in the visa class.
**Membership is a fact about the state, not about you**, and it changes by amendment. The Schedule has been amended seven times since 2017, and a state moved out of it lands in the table to section 7.01 rather than straight into the visa class.
Where it actually bites
Membership is one thing and what a destination does with it is another. These are the countries covered here that treat these nationalities differently, and on which question.
Canada- Visiting as a tourist · Named in the Schedule: No Visa, and an Authorization if You Fly
- consolidatesImmigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, Schedule 1.1
Justice Laws Website, Department of Justice Canada
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