Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Response to the Situation in the Middle East

Citizenship and Immigration Canada is carefully monitoring the situation in Lebanon. The visa office in Beirut, Lebanon remains open and will be concentrating on processing priority cases.

Immigration Canada will give priority to Canadian citizens and Canadian permanent residents as well as their spouses, common-law partners, conjugal partners and dependent children.

Presently, the Beirut visa office will no longer be accepting new applications for people who wish to visit, study or work temporarily in Canada, with the exception of the priority cases listed above. However, the office will continue to process applications that have already been submitted.

The visa offices in Damascus, Syria and Amman, Jordan will continue to provide services as usual.

Alice Daghavarian, Director of Immigration Services.