CBSA will take a more facilitative approach to international students entering Canada, and any reasonable length of time prior to study will be considered. Novemupdate: Effective November 3, 2021, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) will no longer restrict international student arrivals to four weeks before their studies begin. As of January 15, 2022, international students over the age of 18 will only be allowed to enter the country if they are fully vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved for entry into Canada.The list will include Sinopharm, Sinovac and COVAXIN, matching the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Use Listing (EUL). Effective November 30, 2021, the Government of Canada will expand its list of accepted vaccines for the purposes of entry into Canada and exemption from some testing and quarantine requirements.Novemupdate: The Public Health Agency of Canada announced adjustments to Canada’s border and travel measures: Novemupdate: Until January 31, 2022, the Government of Canada is implementing enhanced border measures for all travellers who have been in the Southern Africa region - including South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Namibia- within the last 14 days before arriving in Canada. Foreign nationals who have travelled in any of these countries within the previous 14 days will not be permitted entry into Canada. However, those arriving by air will now be required to stay in a designated quarantine facility or other suitable location while they await the result of their on arrival test. Unvaccinated travellers, with right of entry to Canada, will continue to be tested on arrival and day 8 and quarantine for 14 days.Fully vaccinated travellers will be required to quarantine while they await the results of their arrival test. All fully vaccinated travellers arriving by air from departure points other than the United States will be subject to arrival testing.Effective Decemthe Government of Canada is expanding the list of countries with entry prohibitions originally announced on November 26, 2021, to include Egypt, Nigeria and Malawi.All travellers are strongly encouraged to pre-register with the testing provider at their arrival airport prior to coming to Canada.ĭecemupdate: the Public Health Agency of Canada announced three notable updates that impacts international student arrival: Taking a rapid antigen test at home is not sufficient to meet the pre-entry requirement – it must be authorized by the country in which it was purchased and must be administered by a laboratory, healthcare entity or telehealth service.ĭecemupdate: the Government of Canada lifted the extraordinary measures for travellers returning from the ten specific countries initially listed as of December 18 at 11:59pm. Travellers will now have the option of using a COVID-19 rapid antigen test result (taken the day prior to their scheduled flight or arrival at the land border or marine port of entry) or a molecular test result (taken no more than 72 hours before their scheduled flight or arrival at the land border or marine port of entry) to meet pre-entry requirements.Travellers selected will no longer be required to quarantine while awaiting their test results.
Travellers arriving in Canada from any country, who qualify as fully vaccinated, will be randomly selected for arrival testing.
Fully vaccinated travellers seeking to arrive in Canada before April 1, 2022, must still have a valid pre-entry test.įebruupdate: the Government of Canada announced a series of adjustments to the current border measures that impact the arrival process.
Maupdate: The Government of Canada announced that effective Apat 12:01 AM EDT, fully vaccinated travellers will no longer need to provide a pre-entry COVID-19 test result to enter Canada by air, land or water.