{"id":822,"date":"2020-11-30T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:49:28","slug":"service-canada-offer-biometrics-scheduling-online-from-november-30-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"What will be the Biometrics scheduling for Canada during the pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beginning Monday November 30, 2020, the Service Canada will resume scheduling biometrics appointment system .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will help Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) clients to book their own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/visiting-canada-biometrics.html#gs.mlvc8r\">biometrics<\/a>&nbsp;appointments online and the same would be more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Service Canada officers had started contacting the IRCC clients for scheduling the biometrics appointments since mid-September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, from this coming Monday, clients who were not yet contacted can use the online scheduling tool to book their biometrics appointment, as noted in their biometrics instruction letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IRCC also in its new release mentioned&nbsp;that clients can book their appointment at the Service Canada office closest to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that the walk-in service is not available, so only those applicants who have booked prior online appointment should be able to submit their biometrics at Service Canada locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicants for permanent residence who have not submitted biometrics within the last 10 years will need an appointment to meet the biometrics component of their immigration application processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IRCC also notified that biometrics exemptions continue to be in effect for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/immigration-refugees-citizenship\/news\/notices\/biometrics-exemption-temporary-residents.html\">temporary residence applicants in Canada<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/immigration-refugees-citizenship\/news\/notices\/biometrics-exemption-permanent-residents.html\">permanent residence applicants who have already submitted\u00a0their biometrics in the last 10 years.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Monday November 30, 2020, the Service Canada will resume scheduling biometrics appointment system . This will help Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) clients to book their own&nbsp;biometrics&nbsp;appointments online and the same would be more efficient. Service Canada officers had started contacting the IRCC clients for scheduling the biometrics appointments since mid-September. However, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cadimmigration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}