Carles Puigdemont fled Barcelona in October, 2017, narrowly escaping Spanish police who were rounding up Catalan leaders after they’d announced the region’s independence from Spain.The former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, has reapplied for a travel authorization to visit Quebec and his Spanish lawyer is confident that this time the application will be approved.
Mr. Puigdemont had been planning a four-day trip to Quebec in April at the invitation of the nationalist St. Jean Baptiste Society. He applied for an electronic travel authorization at the end of March and it was initially approved by Canadian immigration officials. However, the ETA was later revoked and Mr. Puigdemont had to cancel his plane ticket.The decision caused an uproar in Quebec where Mr.
Canada requires ETAs for travellers from countries like Spain that are visa-exempt, which means visitors don’t need a visa to come to Canada. It’s usually a straightforward online process that takes a few minutes to complete. Applicants are asked a few questions about their health, criminal background and travel plans, and the government charges a fee of $7.
On March 31, Mr. Puigdemont received a notice from the company that the ETA had been revoked. The notice added that because of “Canadian privacy regulations” the government would not release any information about why the ETA had been rejected. Mr. Puigdemont’s lawyers spent weeks trying to find out what happened and they eventually hired Montreal lawyer Stéphane Handfield to appeal the rejection. It’s not clear if canadianeta-visa.com received any information and failed to pass it along.
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