Machine Readable Passport or Manual Passport

[canada1111]

Hi every body.
Is it MUST for pakistanis applicants to have Machine readable passport for stamping of Canadian visa?
I was told by alot of people that Canadian embassy will not stamp visa on Manual passport but I could not verify this from CIC website. CIC website says this about philiphines and czech republic but nothing about Pakistan.
Pakistan embassy in Uk once told me that for Canada, USA, and S.Arabia, Machine readable passport is must.
Any advise about it will be highly appreciated.

[qorax]

MRPs (Machine Readable Passports) r not a requirement for entering Canada, except from the Czech Republic.

The following are not considered travel documents for the purposes of subsections R50(1) or R52(1):
-Any passport purporting to have been issued by Somalia;
-Non-machine readable passports issued by the Czech Republic;
-Temporary Passports issued by the Republic of South Africa; and
-Provisional Passports issued by Venezuela.

Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/English//resources/manuals/bulletins/2010/ob190.asp#tphp%20idtphp

Qorax

[asyousuf]

Hi every body.
Is it MUST for pakistanis applicants to have Machine readable passport for stamping of Canadian visa?
I was told by alot of people that Canadian embassy will not stamp visa on Manual passport but I could not verify this from CIC website. CIC website says this about philiphines and czech republic but nothing about Pakistan.
Pakistan embassy in Uk once told me that for Canada, USA, and S.Arabia, Machine readable passport is must.
Any advise about it will be highly appreciated.

MRP is not required. CHC requires certain info on the passport that is already available on the manual passports though MRP's present it in a better way
asyousuf