(CANADA) – Canada is imposing new Ebola-related border, travel, and immigration measures tied to outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, including 21-day self-isolation rules for affected travelers and temporary restrictions on some immigration documents.

The measures require Entry screening and health assessment for Canadian citizens, permanent residents, people registered under the Indian Act, and foreign nationals who have been in the affected countries within the previous 21 days. Travelers who show symptoms on arrival will be sent for hospital assessment.

Other affected travelers must complete mandatory 21-day self-isolation and provide an isolation plan. If they cannot arrange suitable isolation, authorities will provide a location.

Canada also said it will temporarily suspend, effective May 27 at 11:59 p.m., certain immigration documents for residents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan. The suspension covers permanent residence visas, temporary resident visas, electronic travel authorizations, temporary resident permit counterfoils, study permits, and work permits.

Authorities are also pausing final decisions on certain applications from residents of those three countries. The border screening rules will stay in place until August 29, 2026.

The immigration-document measures will remain in effect for 90 days unless Canada extends, amends, or lifts them sooner. That means travel and immigration processing will face separate limits: public-health screening at the border and administrative holds on some documents and decisions.

Canada’s public health guidance said the “overall risk to the general population in Canada remains low.” It also said “no travel-related cases have been reported in Canada to date.”

The guidance said the Public Health Agency of Canada is monitoring the outbreak with the World Health Organization and provincial and territorial authorities. That monitoring sits alongside the new border controls and immigration restrictions now in force.

The travel rules reach several categories of people entering Canada. Canadian citizens, permanent residents, people registered under the Indian Act, and foreign nationals with recent presence in the affected countries all face entry screening and health assessment if they were in those countries during the previous 21 days.

That screening structure creates a two-step system at the border. Arriving travelers first face health checks, and those with symptoms go to hospital assessment, while others covered by the public-health order may still have to isolate for 21 days after entry.

The isolation requirement adds a practical test for travel into Canada from the affected areas. Affected travelers must arrive with a plan for where and how they will isolate, and authorities will place them in a provided location if they cannot secure a suitable one themselves.

The immigration side of the policy is narrower in one sense and broader in another. It targets residents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, but it covers a wide set of documents that touch tourism, study, work, and longer-term migration to Canada.

People seeking to travel on a temporary resident visa or an electronic travel authorization now face an immediate barrier if they are residents of those countries. The same applies to residents waiting on documents tied to study permits, work permits, permanent residence visas, or temporary resident permit counterfoils.

Canada’s pause on final decisions for certain applications adds another layer to the restrictions. Even where an application is already in process, some cases from residents of the three named countries will not move to a final decision during the period of the measure.

The steps combine public-health controls with immigration processing limits at a moment when Canada says it has not recorded any travel-related Ebola case. Officials have framed the package as a preventive move aimed at stopping Ebola cases from spreading to Canada while outbreaks continue abroad.

The timeline is now fixed on two dates. Border screening and health assessment rules remain in place until August 29, 2026, while the immigration-document suspensions and paused decisions run for 90 days unless Canada changes them earlier.

Anyone covered by the order enters a system shaped by health checks, possible hospital referral, and possible isolation after arrival. Residents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan also face suspended document issuance and delays in some immigration decisions as Canada applies its new Ebola-related border, travel, and immigration measures.