Cameroon, Canada seek tighter oversight of migration flows

Cameroon and Canada say they want to better regulate Cameroonian migration to Canada amid high visa rejection rates, recurring document fraud, and a mismatch between some applicants’ profiles and Canadian labor market needs. During a meeting held in Yaounde on April 29, 2026, Cameroon’s Minister of Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, and Canada’s High Commissioner to Cameroon, Marie-Claude Harvey, discussed reforms to mobility mechanisms between the two countries. According to Cameroon’s Ministry of Trade, the objective is to better structure departures to Canada by aligning them with clearly identified professional needs. For Ottawa, one of the main challenges concerns the…