Canada deported 3,323 Indian nationals within the first six months of 2026, placing the determine on monitor to surpass the final six years’ document, in accordance with official knowledge.
Based on knowledge from the Canada Border Providers Company (CBSA), the variety of Indians faraway from the North American nation within the first half of this yr is already practically 88 per cent of the three,779 eliminated throughout the entire of 2025, which was itself a document excessive.
The info comes at a time when Canada has been tightening its immigration system and decreasing the variety of non permanent residents, together with worldwide college students and non permanent overseas staff.
Canada routinely deports Indian nationals primarily because of non-compliance with immigration guidelines, rejected asylum or refugee claims, visa overstays and visa fraud scams.
Indians emerged as the biggest nationality amongst these faraway from Canada within the first half of 2026, overtaking Mexicans with 1,573 deportations.
Mexico topped Canada’s record of nationalities for deportations in every of the final 5 years, with India rating second throughout that interval.
India had final topped the record in 2020, when 1,424 Indian nationals have been deported from Canada.
In 2021, as many as 603 Indians have been deported from Canada, adopted by 786 in 2022. In 2023, the quantity rose to 1,132, and additional to 2,004 in 2024, in accordance with CBSA knowledge.
The CBSA maintains a separate database on causes for deportation, however that doesn’t have a country-wise breakdown.
Indians additionally accounted for the biggest group in Canada’s “removing in progress stock”, with 7,669 individuals awaiting removing, CBSA knowledge confirmed.
Canada enforces three broad classes of removing orders.
Underneath a departure order, an individual is required to go away Canada voluntarily inside 30 days, failing which it routinely turns into a deportation order. An exclusion order bars an individual from returning to Canada for a specified interval, usually between one and 5 years. A deportation order completely bars re-entry except the particular person obtains written authorisation from the Canadian authorities.
Canada’s deportation determine for this yr can also be greater than two-and-a-half occasions the variety of Indians deported by the US to India. India’s Ministry of Exterior Affairs stated final month that 1,273 Indian nationals had been deported from the US between January 1 and July 22.
