In 2022, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada opened a visa office in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with two employees, two Canadian diplomats. This recognizes the importance of this potential recruitment pool for Canada. The office will promote francophone immigration. It will also print visas and place them in passports.
The processing of applications from Cameroon, which are electronic applications, can be divided between different offices. Some applications can be processed by our colleagues in Dakar. To be more equitable, the department can also take advantage of its network to process applications in parallel, which would bring processing times down to the global average. Adding resources in Cameroon would not have a direct impact on speeding up the processing of applications.