Rights? Wrong.
ronnyalex said:
All the posted question before were to find out the possibilities that Dominican have to travel to Canada for study, visitor or worker. You never know ricky, Dominican have the same right you and I do,
Well ronnyalex whoever you are and wherever you are from, you are wrong in this respect. Here in Canada, Dominicans don't actually have the rights that I do. Any visitors etc., not just Dominicans.
We don't have work visas here unless you are sponsored by an employer for a job that they cannot fill with an existing resident.
We do have student visas but the selection process for those takes into account the risk of the "student" disapperaing into the underground society and not going back. There seems to be a close relationship to wealth and student visas ( partially because our schools here charge as much as 500% of the normal tuition for non-residents, e.g. student visa holders, so if you can afford $20,000 a year for tuition then you have a chance).
Visitors are screened beyond having an invitation or a letter from some nice Canadians that "promise" to send the person home (to the DR or wherever). If there is no strong financial ties to the original country we all know they will say no to the request.
Another reason they are very careful with visas is that a simple 5 day visa request becmes a refugee/asylum claim when the person lands. As we seem to take forever to deport phoney asylum refugees here they are more careful than ever in not getting those people into Canada to begin with. In the meantime they are free to wander around and collect welfare in some cases.
As for the part where you said this
"How do you if Im able to travel US or Canada.?" - I assume you meant to ask how do I KNOW if you can travel, if you will recall you asked that question about direct flights to Canada when you started this post.
At least there now seems to be some (non-charter flights) , so you can get by without a US Visa. If you have a US Visa, well, good for you, fly via the US as there are many more flights than the weekly POP - YYZ flights on AC. Do you have a US visa? If not and with the TWOV program dead, it is a valid point.
By the way when and if they refuse the visa they don't normally say why, though it is always the same reason, that there is no resonable expectation that you will leave Canada when the visa expires.
They don't have to tell you why not, the immigration officer has the right to decide. Personally I think it would be kinder if they told people with a 0% chance of getting a visa that they are wasting their time so they don't collect a visa fee with no hope of a visa. Pre-screening would be a benefit in that regard.
Also, so you know, you can land in Canada with a tourist visa to a resident of the DR and if the immigration officers HERE at the airport think suspiciously of the person , then can, and do, refuse entry, lock the person up until there is a return flight and deport them without ever being allowed to enter the city.