McLeod Group blog by Betty Plewes, October 30, 2018
In July, I received a frantic email from a Ugandan colleague who was coming to Canada to present a paper at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Vancouver. Both of her research associates, one from Ethiopia and one from Nigeria, had been refused a Canadian visa needed to attend the conference. Could I help?
They had received identical rejection letters stating that the visa officer was not satisfied that they …