ABSTRACT
Visa policy is one of the primary ways that a state governs entry to its territory and it is a particularly useful policy tool. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does guarantee the rights to mobility, to possess citizenship, the right to enter one's own country, and the right to claim asylum. The so-called 'Czech Republic-Canada Visa War' which caused an intergovernmental crisis between the Czech Republic, Canada and the European Union (EU) presents an interesting and useful case study in the management of borders and populations. Canada, the process leading to the issue of visas is the responsibility of the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration (CIC). States have a necessary, exclusive and unquestionable right to determine entrants, citizens and refugees have a clear and settled claim to entry and it could be argued that all humans have an embedded right to mobility.
