Syrian Embassy building in Ottawa
On May 29 Canada, US, UK and several other European states has made a decision to expel Syrian embassies and consulates as well as its staff.
Syrian embassy in Ottawa as well as its consular office will close its doors to public this Friday, June 01 as the grace period of 5 days assigned by Canadian government to the embassy to cease its operations expires on Sunday, June 03. Currently the consular office has already stopped accepting all documents for visas, legalization and passports. Though Syrian government has not made any decision yet on what embassy in what country will take over the consular matters from Canada, as per Syrian embassy source there is a possibility that it may be Venezuela. At the same time coming from the similar precedents with other countries in the past the Syrian mission at the UN in New York may take over the duties as well.
Visacenter.ca will be monitoring the developments and will re-start providing Syrian visa and legalization services as soon as situation clears.