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Visas and Immigration

Welcome to the Visa Section of the Embassy of Canada in Dakar, Senegal.

For information about going to Canada and to find out how to make an application at this office, please refer to our list of services below.

We provide these services to residents, nationals, or persons legally admitted to these countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea (except refugee applicants), Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.

Visa Application Centres, aimed at making the visa application process easier for temporary resident visas —visitors, students and temporary workers—and all permanent residents applying for travel documents to return to Canada, are now available in the following countries: Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinée Conakry, Mali, Niger et Senegal. Applicants are encouraged to present their applications at the VAC after December 16^th and take advantage of the extended office hours and of the on‑site client service.

The VAC is responsible for:

distributing information on relevant visa requirements, as published by the Embassy of Canada;
receiving applications and supporting documents;
reviewing applications to ensure completeness; and
securely forwarding applications to the visa office in Dakar
returning, by secure means, the passport and decision to the applicant

For the Gambia immigration services are provided by the High Commission of Canada in Accra, Ghana

Notice of office closures:

Effective December 16, the visa office at the Embassy of Canada in Ouagadougou will close and on January 1^st, the visa office at the Embassy of Canada in Abidjan, Côte d`Ivoire, and Yaounde, Cameroon, will close . Applications will have to be sent either to a VAC or directly to the Visa and Immigration section of the Embassy of Canada in Dakar, Senegal by prepaid courier service.