Canada opens its second global immigration processing centre.

Canada’s Immigration Minister, Marc Miller, recently announced the launch of a new global operations centre in Romania. The new centre is located within the Embassy of Canada in Bucharest and will be supported by 20 new employees, including both Canada-based and locally engaged staff.

This is IRCC’s second global operations centre outside Canada. The first one was opened in March this year in the Philippines. Since its launch, the centre has marked significant achievements, including processing over 150,000 temporary resident applications from countries as diverse as the Philippines, Nigeria, and Bangladesh.

“Immigration is crucial to Canada’s economic growth and prosperity. Improving immigration processing capacity and client service is key to success in the global search for talent. I am glad that we are expanding our worldwide presence by opening a second global operations centre. This new centre will help support our goal of bringing people to Canada—whether to visit, study, work or stay permanently—and doing it faster,” says Miller.