Can Family Members Send Passport to Canada in One Envelope for Visa?

Use this guide to apply for: visitor visa, transit visa, super visa

Tabular array of Contents

• Overview
• Earlier you utilize
• Step one. Gather documents
• Step 2. Consummate the awarding
• Step 3. Pay the fees
• Pace 4. Submit the application
• What happens next?
• Need Help?
• Income Table
• Temporary Resident Visa awarding photograph specifications

This is non a legal document. The explanations and definitions are not legal definitions. In instance of a discrepancy between the language in this document and the relevant legislation or regulations, the legal text in the legislation and regulations prevails.

For legal data, see the:

• Immigration and Refugee Protection Human activity
• Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

This information will help you complete the forms and guide you through the application process.

Overview

Awarding parcel

This application package has:

• an instruction guide, and
• the forms yous need to fill out.

The instruction guide:

• has information you lot must know earlier you lot submit your application, and
• explains how to fill up out the forms and get together your supporting documents.

Read the education guide completely and then fill out each of the applicable forms.

The forms are designed with questions that will help the processing of your awarding.

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Symbols used in this guide

This guide uses these symbols to draw your attending to of import information:

What you must practise to accept your application processed.

Important information that yous need to know to avoid delays or other bug.

Where to get more information.

Annotation: Tips that volition help y'all with this application.

Before you utilize

Who may use this application guide?

Utilize this application guide if y'all wish to utilize for a temporary resident visa from outside Canada.

Who are Visitors?

Visitors are persons who are non Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, and are legally authorized to enter Canada to:

• visit Canada on vacation (vacation),
• visit family,
• comport business, etc.

Visitors are restricted in length of stay and subject to diverse weather.

Exercise I need a Temporary Resident Visa?

Persons who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada may require a visa to enter Canada. The requirement for a visa too applies to temporary residents who are transiting in Canada. Find out if you need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (eTA) or a visitor visa.

If you do not require a visa to enter Canada, y'all may require an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA). Find out if you demand an eTA.

What is a Temporary Resident Visa?

A Temporary Resident Visa (TRV), also referred to equally a visitor visa, is an official document issued by a Canadian visa office that is placed in your passport to show that you lot accept met the requirements for access to Canada equally a temporary resident (either as a visitor, a student, or a worker).

Of import information: You must obtain a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) before your difference. You cannot obtain one upon arrival in Canada.

What are the requirements you must meet for a TRV?

Yous must evidence the officer that you run into the requirements of the Clearing and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations and that you will be in Canada for a temporary stay.

You must also:

• satisfy an officeholder that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay,
• bear witness that you have enough money to maintain yourself and your family members in Canada and to render home,
• not intend to work or written report in Canada unless authorized to do so,
• exist police force constant and have no tape of criminal activity,
• not be a hazard to the security of Canada,
• provide whatever additional document requested by the officer to establish your admissibility, and
• be in good wellness (complete a medical examination if required).

What if I was previously granted permanent resident status?

If yous have ever been granted permanent residence or landed immigrant status in Canada, you may all the same be a permanent resident. We cannot issue you lot a TRV if y'all are a permanent resident.

Y'all may instead want to use for Travel Document (Permanent Resident Abroad). If you run into the requirements for a travel document, you can return to Canada as a permanent resident.

If you no longer want to be a permanent resident, or if y'all know y'all do not meet the requirements to keep your permanent resident status, you can voluntarily give up (renounce) your permanent resident status in society to use for a TRV.

Voluntary Renunciation of PR condition applications must be sent in a carve up envelope by postal service to the visa office.

Nosotros recommend that you apply for Voluntary Renunciation of your PR status first, and apply for your TRV once you lot receive the approval of your Voluntary Renunciation.

Entry to Canada

Of import information: Entry to Canada is a privilege, not a correct. You must run into the necessary requirements and you may need a Temporary Resident Visa.

Family fellow member definitions

Your family members include your spouse or common-law partner, your dependent children and any children that are their dependent children.

Spouse

Refers to either of the 2 persons (reverse or aforementioned gender) in a marriage legally recognized in the state in which it took identify, as well as in Canada.

Proxy, telephone, fax, internet and similar forms of marriage where one or both parties were not physically present are not considered as valid spousal relationships under the Regulations. For more than information, consult our policy on the legality of a marriage.

Mutual-law partner

Refers to a person who is living in a conjugal human relationship with another person (reverse or aforementioned gender), and has washed so continuously for a menstruum of at least one yr. A bridal relationship exists when there is a significant degree of commitment between two people.

This tin can exist shown with evidence that the couple share the same home, support each other financially and emotionally, have children together, or present themselves in public as a couple.

Common-constabulary partners who have been in a conjugal relationship for at to the lowest degree i yr but are unable to alive together or appear in public together considering of legal restrictions in their domicile country or who take been separated for reasons beyond their control (for example, civil war or armed conflict) may still qualify and should be included on the application.

Dependent children

Nosotros assess your kid'south eligibility as a dependant based on how old they were at a specific point in time, called the lock-in date. This is normally the date we received your awarding. To see if your child qualifies equally a dependant, we consider the age of your child on the lock-in date, even though your child'due south historic period may change during processing.

Your kid or the child of your spouse or common-law partner can be considered a dependent child if that child meets the requirements below on the lock-in date:

• They're nether 22 years old, and
• They don't have a spouse or common-law partner

Children 22 years onetime or older qualify as dependants if they meet both of these requirements:

• They have depended on their parents for financial back up since before the age of 22, and
• They are unable to financially support themselves considering of a mental or concrete condition

With the exception of age, dependants must continue to meet these requirements until we finish processing your awarding.

Not sure if your child is a dependant? Check if your child qualifies by answering a few questions.

If your kid's age was locked in on or earlier October 23, 2017, a previous definition of dependent children may apply.

Dependent child of a dependent child

Refers to children of dependent children of the applicant and those of the spouse or common-constabulary partner, if applicative.

Do I take to apply separately for my family unit members?

Family members must complete their own application forms. However, you may submit your applications together online or at a Visa Awarding Centre (VAC) and use 1 payment receipt for the full amount.

Your spouse or mutual-law partner and children must meet all of the requirements for temporary residence in Canada.

Are there medical requirements?

If you lot programme to visit or study for six months or less:

You usually do non need a medical exam.

If you program to visit or study for more than vi months:

You will need a medical exam if you lot:

• have lived temporarily for six or more months in a row
  • in any of these countries or territories
  • in the one year immediately earlier the date yous desire to enter Canada. (This applies fifty-fifty if you are a citizen of a country that does not demand a visa to enter Canada.)

Regardless of the length of time you are in Canada, y'all will need a medical exam if you lot wish to work in one of the following fields:

• a designated occupation, such as the field of health services or with children. Examples of designated occupations include infirmary staff, clinical laboratory workers, patient attendants in nursing and geriatric homes, and medical and dental students admitted to attend Canadian universities;
• to work in agronomical occupations, you will demand a medical exam if y'all have lived in sure countries or territories.

You and your family members may need a medical exam to come to Canada. Notice out more than by checking the Medical test requirements for temporary residents.

You may either:

• have an upfront medical exam by contacting a Panel Medico; or
• wait until your awarding is reviewed and medical instructions are given to y'all past the visa office.

Get the instructions to consummate the medical exam.

When medical results are submitted up front end, routine cases benefit from faster processing since we do non have to ask for them at a later engagement. This is done at your own cost and does not influence the final conclusion on your application. If you have an upfront medical exam, you must submit proof that you completed the medical exam with your application. Failure to do and then may effect in processing delays.

Biometric (fingerprints and photo) requirements

You may need to appear in person to have your fingerprints and photograph (biometric information) taken at a biometric collection service point. If your family members are also applying, they may need to appear in person to take their biometric data taken every bit well.

If you're in Canada as a visitor and you employ for an initial study or piece of work let, you need to give your biometrics. As of Dec 3, 2019, you need to give biometrics when you apply from within Canada. You can go to a designated Service Canada location.

Find out if you demand to give biometrics.

Notation: If you need to give biometric fingerprints and photograph, y'all do non need to include paper photos with your application.

How often do you requite your biometrics

You only demand to give your biometrics once every 10 years. You don't need to give your biometrics again until the 10-yr catamenia expires.

If you gave biometrics in the past as function of an application for a visitor visa, work or study allow and they are still valid, y'all don't need to give them once more for this application.

Find out if your biometrics are notwithstanding valid and when they expire by using the Bank check Biometric Status Tool.

When to give your biometrics

If you submit your application online or by postal service.

Yous tin can give your biometrics later you:

• pay for and submit your application and biometric fees, and
• go a biometric education letter (BIL) that will direct yous to a list of official locations you lot may choose from. You are encouraged to requite your biometrics as soon every bit possible after getting the BIL.

If you submit your application in person at a visa application centre (VAC)

You may be able to volume an appointment in advance to give your biometrics at the same time that you submit your awarding at a VAC. If you tin can't give your biometrics when you submit your application y'all will have to make an appointment at the VAC to give them at a later date.

Where to give your biometrics

You need to book an appointment to give your biometrics at one of these official biometric collection service points.

We'll starting time processing your application subsequently we get your biometrics.

Can I piece of work or study during my stay in Canada?

Visitors are not allowed to work or study in Canada unless they are authorized to do then under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations. In many cases, a piece of work or study permit will be required.

A temporary resident may also accept a plan of written report upwardly to half dozen months duration without having to obtain a report let.

Information well-nigh the parent and grandparent super visa

Almost the super visa

The multiple-entry super visa allows parents and grandparents to

• enter Canada multiple times
• stay in Canada for a flow of up to 2 years on each entry

Important information: Applicants who do not normally require a visa to enter Canada must also submit an application to a visa office. See department below for visa-exempt applicants.

Who may apply for a super visa?

To employ for a super visa, you must either be the parent or grandparent of a Canadian denizen or a permanent resident of Canada.

You cannot include your dependent children in this application. If your spouse or common-law partner desire to come up with you, they need to also submit an application.

How do I utilize for a super visa?

To apply for a super visa, y'all need to submit an application to a visa function and provide

• a letter of invitation written and signed past your child or grandchild promising financial support for the entire duration of your stay in Canada.
  • You lot must as well include your host kid or host grandchild's family composition (dependents, including spouse, children or other relatives that are financially dependent on your host child or host grandchild).
• 1 of the following documents to bear witness that your kid or grandchild meets the depression income cutting-off (LICO) minimum (a co-signer may exist added to meet the LICO minimum):
  • The nearly contempo copy of their federal income tax observe of assessment. If your kid or grandchild does non accept a paper copy of their detect of cess, they can view (and impress) their taxation returns as well as other personal tax data using the Canada Revenue Agency's My Account online service. To register or login, visit My Account.
  • The most contempo copy of the child or grandchild'southward T4 or T1.
  • An original letter of the alphabet from child's or grandchild's employer stating their title, task description and bacon.
  • The child or grandchild'south employment insurance pay stubs, including
    • a letter from an auditor confirming annual income, if cocky-employed
    • proof of other sources of income (for example, alimony statement, investments)
• show of the parent or grandparent relationship to the Canadian denizen or permanent resident you wish to visit (such equally a birth document, baptismal certificate or other official documents naming y'all as parent or grandparent)
• proof that you have private medical insurance valid for a minimum of 1 yr from a Canadian insurance company and that
  • covers health care, hospitalization and repatriation
  • provides a minimum coverage of $100,000, and
  • is valid for each entry to Canada and will exist available for review by a border services officer, upon request

Later you apply, you will as well need to undergo a medical examination and provide proof of the results.

You will be required to appear in person to have your biometric fingerprints and photo (biometric information) taken at a biometric collection service bespeak.

Visa-exempt applicants

You are not required to pay the application processing fee or provide your biometrics.

If your application is approved, you volition be directed to utilize for an electronic travel authorization (eTA). Yous will be provided with a alphabetic character that you will evidence to a border services officer upon arrival to Canada.

What must my child or grandchild do to see the LICO minimum?

You child or grandchild's income must meet or exceed the minimum necessary cut off, as identified annually in the income tabular array.

In the letter of invitation they must calculate their family size. This factor determines the amount of income required to provide intendance and support for you and your spouse, if applicative.

How to calculate family size:

1. Your child or grandchild counts
   • themselves
   • their spouse or common-law partner
   • their dependent children
   • any person they may have sponsored previously and for whom the sponsorship agreement and undertaking are still in consequence
2. They count the number of persons they will be supporting
   • yous, and
   • your spouse or mutual-police partner, if you have one
3. They add the number of persons covered by steps 1 and 2. The total represents their family size.
4. They await at the LICO in the income table in this guide to determine if they meet the minimum required for their family unit size.
5. To demonstrate that they run into the minimum income required, your child or grandchild may include i of the documents listed in the certificate checklist (IMM 5484).

If your kid or grandchild does not meet the LICO minimum, their spouse or mutual-law partner tin can help by besides providing a letter of invitation with one of the documents listed in the document checklist (IMM 5484).

Stride 1. Gather documents

What documents are required?

Important information: If you do not provide all the requested information or documents, the processing of your application could be delayed.

Minors travelling alone

Minors (under 18 years of historic period) travelling alone or with a person other than their parents or legal guardians should have a letter of the alphabet of authorization, preferably in English language or French, signed by both parents or legal guardians. It should also include the proper noun of the adult who will be responsible for the children in Canada.

Minors travelling with only one parent or legal guardian should take a letter of authorization, preferably in English language or French, from the non accompanying parent or guardian.

Translation of documents

You must submit the post-obit for whatever document that is non in English or French, unless otherwise stated on your document checklist:

• the English language or French translation; and
• an affirmation from the person who completed the translation (if they're not a certified translator); and
• a certified re-create of the original document.

Important information: Translations must not be done past the applicants themselves nor by an applicant's parent, guardian, sibling, spouse, mutual-law partner, conjugal partner, grandparent, child, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or commencement cousin.

If the translation is not done by a certified translator (a fellow member in good continuing of a provincial or territorial association of translators and interpreters in Canada), you lot must submit an affidavit swearing to the accurateness of the translation and the language proficiency of the translator.

An affirmation is a document on which the translator has sworn, in the presence of a person authorized to administer oaths in the country where the translator is living, that the contents of their translation are a truthful translation and representation of the contents of the original document.

Translators who are certified in Canada don't need to supply an affidavit.

The affidavit must be sworn in the presence of:

In Canada:

• a notary public
• a commissioner of oaths
• a commissioner of taking affidavits

Authority to certify varies by province and territory. Consult your local provincial or territorial authorities.

Outside of Canada:

• a notary public

Say-so to administer oaths varies past country. Consult your local authorities.

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Certified true copies

To have a photocopy of a document certified, an authorized person must compare the original document to the photocopy and must print all of the following on the photocopy:

• "I certify that this is a true re-create of the original document"
• the name of the original document
• the date of the certification
• their name
• their official position or title
• their signature

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Who tin certify copies?

Only authorized people tin certify copies.

Important information: Certifying of copies must not be done by the applicants themselves nor by an applicant's parent, guardian, sibling, spouse, mutual-police force partner, conjugal partner, grandparent, child, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or first cousin.

People authorized to certify copies include the post-obit:

In Canada:

• a notary public
• a commissioner of oaths
• a commissioner of taking affidavits

Dominance to certify varies by province and territory. Check with your local provincial or territorial government to larn who has the authority to certify.

Outside Canada:

• a notary public

Authority to certify international documents varies by country. Bank check with your local authorities to learn who has the authority to certify in your country.

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Stride 2. Complete the awarding

Filling out the application

The following are the forms that must be filled out and submitted:

• Awarding for Temporary Resident Visa [IMM 5257] (PDF, 0.56 MB)
• Family Information (IMM 5645 or IMM 5707)
• Document Checklist [IMM 5484] (PDF, 1.12 MB)
• Document Checklist – Applicants in Canada [IMM 5721] (PDF, 0.91 MB), if applicable
• Statutory Annunciation of Mutual-law Union [IMM 5409] (PDF, 0.78 MB), if applicable
• Use of a Representative [IMM 5476] (PDF, 1.53 ThouB), if applicative
• Authority to release personal information to a designated private [IMM 5475] (PDF, 1.52 1000B), if applicable

Notation: Y'all may be required to complete boosted supporting documents upon request of a visa officer.

Of import data: Information technology is a serious offence to give false or misleading information on these forms. The data you lot provide on your application is subject area to verification.

Of import information

Be complete and authentic

Complete all sections. If a section does non apply to you, write "Not Applicable" or "NA", except for your name (last name and given name[s]). Refer to questions one and 2 under "Personal Details" section for further instructions. The application must be signed and dated.

If your application is incomplete information technology may be rejected and this will delay the processing of your application.

If you lot need more space for any section, print out an additional folio containing the appropriate section, complete it and submit it along with your application.

Application for Temporary Resident Visa (IMM 5257)

Who must make full out this application form?

This class must be completed by each person applying for a Temporary Resident Visa to visit Canada.

Note

Fill up out the form

You must respond all the questions on this form unless instructed otherwise.

Download and make full out the form on a computer.

You lot also have the option to save your form and fill information technology out afterward.

Annotation: Filling out the class on a computer is easier and reduces mistakes that can wearisome down the application process.

Read and follow the questions below to help you fill out the course.

Question 1

Blazon your universal client identification number (UCI), if known. Otherwise, get out it bare. If this is your outset time dealing with united states of america you will not have a UCI.

Question 2

From the listing, select the language (English or French) in which you would like to receive your service.

Question three

From the list, select the type of visa you are applying for:

• Visitor visa: official document issued by a visa role that is placed in the passport which allows you to seek entry to Canada.
• Transit Visa: is required for persons travelling through Canada for less than 48 hours on their way to another country.

  Note: To obtain a transit visa you lot must provide specific evidence of your travel itinerary from your transportation visitor or travel agent.

Personal Details

Question 1

Full name

Type your family name (surname) exactly every bit shown on your passport or travel document (even if the name is misspelled). Do not use initials.

Note: If you do not accept a family name on your passport or travel certificate, enter all your given names here and leave the given proper noun field bare.

Type all of your given names (first, second, or more) exactly every bit shown on your passport or travel document (even if the name is misspelled). Practice not use initials.

Note: If you do not take a given proper name on your passport or travel certificate, leave this field bare. Practise non enter "*", "Not applicative" or "NA".

Question two

Nick names or Allonym

Check the box to tell u.s. if you accept e'er used any other proper name. This could include your nativity name, maiden name, married name, nick name, etc.

If you lot checked "Yep", blazon whatsoever other family unit proper noun that you lot have ever used.

If y'all checked "Yep", type any other given name (first, second, or more) that you have ever used.

Question 3

Choose your gender (F-Female, M-Male or X-Another gender).

Note: If you lot choose a gender identifier that is different than what you lot currently have or have had on your Canadian temporary resident certificate (visa, electronic travel potency, work permit, study let or visitor tape), you need to complete the Request for a Change of Sex or Gender Identifier form and ship it with your application. If you've never had a Canadian temporary resident document but you intend to employ for one and y'all identify with a gender that is unlike than what appears on your foreign travel certificate or passport, yous also need to complete the Request for a Change of Sex activity or Gender Identifier form and send it with your awarding. No supporting documents are required.

Question 4

Enter your date of birth. If your entire date of nativity is unknown, please use '*' (star sign or asterisk) to fill in the spaces for the year, calendar month or mean solar day, where applicable.

Question v

Note, if your metropolis, boondocks, or state or territory of birth is indicated in your passport or your travel document, please record it as information technology appears in the document.

Question vi

Choose your country or territory of citizenship. To be a citizen of a country or territory means that you were either born in that country or territory (in almost cases) or have been granted citizenship past that country or territory. If you are a citizen of more than one country or territory, choose the country or territory that issued the passport you lot volition be using for this trip.

Question seven

Choose the correct information:

• The name of the land or territory you live in, if you have been lawfully admitted to that state or territory.
• Your immigration status in that country or territory (choose one of the following):
  • Citizen
  • Permanent resident
  • Visitor
  • Worker
  • Student
  • Other
  • Protected Person
  • Refugee Claimant
• Other: Y'all must make full out this section if you lot chose "Other" equally a status.
• The dates (From – To) you accept been living in your country or territory of residence.

Question eight

Check the box to tell us if during the past five years, yous have lived in any other country or territory other than your country of citizenship or your electric current state or territory of residence (indicated in a higher place) for more than half-dozen months?

If you checked "Yes", choose the correct data:

• The name of the country or territory y'all lived in,
• Your immigration status for the time y'all were in that land or territory:
  • Citizen
  • Permanent resident
  • Visitor
  • Worker
  • Student
  • Other
  • Protected Person
  • Refugee Claimant
• Other: You must fill up out this section if you chose "Other" as a status.
• The dates (From – To) you were living in that country or territory.

Question nine

Check the box to tell us if you lot are applying from the land or territory you live in.

If y'all checked "No", choose the correct information:

• The name of the country or territory where you are applying from,
• Your clearing condition in that country or territory by choosing one of the following:
  • Denizen
  • Permanent resident
  • Company
  • Worker
  • Educatee
  • Other
  • Protected Person
  • Refugee Claimant
• Other: Y'all must fill out this section if you chose "Other" every bit a condition.
• The dates (From – To) that yous have been living in that country or territory.

If you are not a citizen of the land or territory where you are applying, you must send proof of your legal status in the country or territory you live in when you submit your application.

Question 10

1. Choose your electric current marital status:

   Annulled Marriage

   This is a marriage that is legally declared invalid. An annulment can also exist a proclamation by the Catholic Church building that the marital union did not accept a binding force.

   Common-
   Law

   This means that yous have lived continuously with your partner in a marital-type relationship for a minimum of ane yr.

   Divorced

   This means that you are officially separated and have legally ended your matrimony.

   Legally Separated

   This means that y'all are married, but are no longer living with your spouse.

   Married

   This means that you lot and your spouse have had a ceremony that legally binds you to each other. Your matrimony must be legally recognized in the state where it was performed and in Canada.

   Single

   This means that yous have never been married and are not in a common-law relationship.

   Widowed

   This ways that your spouse has died and that you have non re-married or entered into a common-police relationship.

2. Enter the date (year, month and day) you were married or you entered into your current common-law relationship.
3. Type the family names and given names of your current spouse or common-police partner.

If you are in a common-law union, you lot must besides fill out the Statutory Announcement of Common-law Union (IMM 5409) form and include it with your application. If you lot are married, you must transport a photocopy of your union licence or document with your application.

Question xi

Check the box to tell us if you accept ever been married or in a common-law relationship. If you checked "Yeah", enter:

• All family names,
• All given names,
• Engagement of nascency,
• Blazon of relationship:
  • Mutual-law, or
  • Married.
• Dates (From – To) for which you were in the human relationship with your former spouse or common-law partner.

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Languages

Question i

1. Cull your native language (mother natural language).
2. If your native language is non English or French, cull the language you would most likely apply.
   • Both
   • English
   • French
   • Neither
3. Choose English, French or both as your linguistic communication of advice:
   • English
   • French
   • Both
   • Neither
4. Cheque Yes or No to tell u.s.a. if you have taken a test from a designated testing bureau to test your abilities in English language or French.

Passport

Question 1

Type your valid passport or travel document number exactly equally shown on the certificate. Brand certain there is no infinite between each number or alphabetic character.

Question two

From the listing, select the name of the land or territory that issued your passport or travel document.

Question 3

Enter the engagement your passport or travel document was issued.

Question 4

Enter the date your passport or travel document will expire.

Question v

For this trip – Bank check Yes or No to tell u.s.a. if you are using a passport issued by the Ministry of Strange Affairs in Taiwan that shows your personal identification number.

Question half dozen

For this trip – Cheque Yes or No to tell u.s.a. if you are using a National Israeli passport.

Note: There must be at least i blank page other than the last page available on each passport. If applying from outside Canada, refer to the responsible visa role for your region. If applying from inside Canada, a physical copy of your passport is not required at this time, and may be requested at a late date.

Venezuelan passport holders

Yous may need to complete extra steps when yous fill out your application.

If the printed expiry appointment has passed and you lot're applying for a company visa, written report permit, work allow or to extend your stay every bit a temporary resident in Canada, follow these steps:

1. Add 5 years to the printed decease appointment shown on your passport and enter it in the expiry appointment field of the application grade.
2. Include a letter of the alphabet of explanation with your awarding stating: "I am a Venezuelan national with a Venezuelan passport, which has been extended for 5 years".

Alert: If your passport is withal expired after adding 5 years to the printed decease date, your passport is considered expired. You're not eligible to submit an application with that passport.

National Identity Document

Question 1

Check Yep or No to tell the states if you lot take a national identity document.

Question 2

Enter your national identity document number exactly as shown on the certificate.

Question 3

From the list, select the proper noun of the country or territory that issued your national identity document.

Question 4

Enter the date your national identity certificate was issued.

Question 5

Enter the date your national identity document volition elapse.

United states PR Card

Question 1

Cheque Yep or No to tell us if yous are a lawful Permanent Resident of the United States with a valid alien registration card (greenish card).

Question 2

Enter your valid conflicting registration card (dark-green carte du jour) document number exactly as shown on the certificate.

Question three

Enter when your alien registration bill of fare (greenish card) document will expire.

Contact Information

Question 1

Type your current mailing address (where information should be mailed). Brand sure you include the following information:

• Post Office Box (P.O. Box) number, if you have 1. If y'all practise not have a mail service function box number, you must type the street number.
• Apartment (Apt.) or Unit,
• Street number (No.). If you did not type in a P.O. Box number, you must type the street number,
• Street name. Exercise not abbreviate words (Street, Avenue, Boulevard, Drive, etc.) except for directions (NW, SE, W, etc.)
• City or Town
• From the list, choose the country or territory of your current mailing address.
• Province or State
• Postal code or nada lawmaking
• District, if it applies to you.

All correspondence will become to this accost unless you give the states your e-mail address.

If you wish to accept a representative who can bear business on your behalf, y'all must give us their email and mailing addresses in this section and fill out the Apply of a Representative (IMM 5476) class.

Question 2

Check the box to tell us if the address you live at is the aforementioned as your mailing address. If "No", type the following data:

• Apartment (Apt.) or Unit, if it applies to you
• Street Number (No.)
• Street Name. Do non abbreviate words (Street, Avenue, Boulevard, Drive etc.) except for directions (NW, SE, W, etc.)
• Metropolis or Town
• State or territory
• Province or State
• Postal Lawmaking or zip code
• Commune, if it applies to you.

Question three

Bank check the right box to tell us if the telephone number is from Canada, the Us (The states) or Other (whatsoever other land).

Cull the type of phone:

• Residence (habitation)
• Cellular (cell or mobile)
• Business concern (work)

Blazon your telephone number including the land code, surface area or regional codes, etc.

If you accept an extension number, write it later on your telephone number under "Ext."

Question 4

Check the correct box to tell u.s.a. if your other telephone number is from Canada, the U.s. or Other (any other country).

Choose the type of telephone:

• Residence (dwelling)
• Cellular (cell or mobile)
• Business (work)

Blazon your phone number including the country code, expanse or regional codes, etc.

If you have an extension number, write it subsequently your telephone number under "Ext."

Question five

Cheque the right box to tell us if the facsimile (fax) number is from Canada, the United States or Other (whatsoever other country).

If you have one, type your facsimile (fax) number, including country code, area or regional codes, etc.

Question 6

If y'all take i, blazon your e-postal service address using a format similar to the post-obit: proper name@provider.cyberspace

Notation: Make sure you cheque your email regularly. Whatever emails sent to you lot by IRCC will terminate in:

• "@cic.gc.ca"
• "@canada.ca" or
• "@international.gc.ca".

Delight add together these to your "condom senders" listing in your email plan and cheque the junk post binder in example important emails get filtered. If we discover that your email address does non work or no longer exists, nosotros volition communicate with you past post. By giving united states of america your e-mail address, you are hereby authorizing us to transport your correspondence, including file and personal information electronically to this accost.

Details of Visit to Canada

Question 1

1. From the list, indicate the purpose of your visit to Canada:
   • Concern
   • Tourism
   • Short-term studies (class or program of six months or less)
   • Returning student
   • Returning worker
   • Super visa — Parents and grandparents
   • Other (medical visit, transit, etc.)
   • Family Visit
   • Visit

   Note: If you selected "other" in question 1a), provide details in 1b)

2. Provide details.

Question 2

Enter the dates (From – To) that you program to stay in Canada.

Question 3

Blazon the amount of funds (coin) in Canadian dollars that you accept available to you lot during your stay in Canada.

Question 4

Blazon the post-obit information well-nigh the person(s) or institution(s), including schools you lot intend to visit during your stay in Canada:

• Name (includes the name of a person or a name of an establishment)
• Relationship you have with this person or establishment (friend, family unit, co-worker, etc.)
• Their address in Canada (street number, street proper noun, city or boondocks and postal code).

Education

Check the box to tell us if yous have whatsoever post-secondary education (including university, college or apprenticeship training).

Examples of post-secondary education:

Trade or Apprenticeship

Preparation completed in a specific merchandise, such as carpentry or car mechanics.

Non-university document or diploma

Training in a profession that requires formal instruction but non at the university level (for case, dental technician or engineering technician).

Available's caste

Bookish degree awarded by a college or university to those who finished an undergraduate curriculum; also called a baccalaureate. Examples include a Bachelor of Arts, Science or Education.

Master's degree

Academic degree awarded by a graduate schoolhouse of a higher or university. You must take completed a Bachelor's degree before a Chief'south degree can exist earned.

PhD

Highest university degree unremarkably based on at least 3 years of graduate studies and a thesis. Unremarkably, you must take finished a Master's degree before a PhD can exist earned.

If yous checked "Yeah", give us full details of your highest level of mail service-secondary education:

• Enter the dates (year and calendar month) you attended the institution
• Field(s) of report (mechanics, social sciences, medicine, etc.)
• School or Facility name
• City or Boondocks
• Country or territory (choose from the list) and
• Province or Country.

Employment (Work or chore)

Enter the following information most your employment for the past 10 years. If you are retired, give data about the 10 years before your retirement.

Question one

Electric current activity or task

Requite details about your current activeness or chore:

• dates (yr and month) you have been working at your current job,
• activity or job, or a brief clarification of your position. If you do not work, describe what yous are currently doing (retired, not working, going to school, etc.),
• name of the company, employer or facility where you lot piece of work,
• Urban center or Town,
• Country or territory,
• Province or State, if it applies to y'all

Question 2

Previous activity or chore

Give details of your previous activity or job for the past 10 years. If yous are retired, include the details about the 10 years before your retirement.

If y'all demand more than space, print out another page of the form, fill in this department and submit it with your application.

Background Information

All questions in this department must exist answered or the application will be considered incomplete and will be returned.

Question i

Check the box to indicate if:

1. you lot or whatever of your family members take ever had tuberculosis of the lungs or been in close contact with a person with tuberculosis within the by 2 years.
2. yous have any physical or mental disorder that would require social and/or health services other than medication during your stay in Canada.
3. If you checked "Yeah" to whatever of the above questions, provide details and the proper noun of the family fellow member, if applicable.

Note: Refer to the Family Members definition in this guide.

Question two

Check the box to point if you lot have ever:

1. remained beyond the validity of your condition, attended school without authorization or worked without dominance in Canada.
2. been refused a visa or allow, denied entry or ordered to leave Canada or any other country or territory.
3. Applied previously to enter or remain in Canada.
4. If you checked "Aye" to i of the above questions, provide details.

Question 3

Check the box to indicate if you have ever:

• committed,
• been arrested for, or
• been charged with or convicted of any criminal offense in whatever country or territory.

Question 4

1. Check the box to bespeak if you accept ever served in any armed forces, militia, civil defense force unit, served in a security organisation or police force (including non-obligatory national service, reserve or voluntary units).
2. If you answered "Yes" to question 4a), please provide your dates of service and the countries or territories where you served.

Question v

Check "Yes" or "No" to indicate if you lot take e'er been a fellow member or associated with any political party, or other grouping or arrangement which has engaged in or advocated violence equally means to achieving a political or religious objective, or which has been associated with criminal activity at any time.

Question 6

Check "Yes" or "No" to betoken if you have ever witnessed or participated in the ill handling of prisoners or civilians, looting or desecration of religious buildings.

To consummate your form:

1. Once the application is completed, click on the "Validate" button located at the top or bottom of the form. This will generate a barcode page (page 5 of 5) – see paradigm below. If this awarding form is completed on a estimator and printed, you lot must place the barcode page on the acme of your application (or if applying equally a group, each individual application package).

   

   Note: This barcode folio will not appear if you fill out your awarding by paw.

2. If y'all are xviii years of age or older, you must sign and date in the boxes provided at the lesser of the folio.

   If y'all are less than 18 years of age, your form must be signed by one of your parents or a legal guardian.

   Annotation: By signing, you certify that you fully understand the questions asked, and that the information you accept provided is complete, accurate, and factual. If you practice non sign and appointment the application form, information technology will be returned to you.

Family Data (IMM 5645 or IMM 5707)

Who needs to consummate this form?

This form must exist completed past each person, eighteen years of age or older, applying for a Temporary Resident Visa, a study or work allow outside Canada.

Which form needs to be completed?

You lot must complete the Family Data course (IMM 5645 or IMM 5707) listed in the application package for your country.

Department A

Write the personal details about:

• yourself,
  • If you are married and yous were physically nowadays at the marriage, choose "married – physically present" in the marital status box.
  • If y'all are married and you lot were non physically present at the union, choose "married – not physically present" in the marital status box.
• your spouse or common-police force partner, if it applies to you,
  • If you are married and your spouse was physically present at the marriage, choose "married – physically present" in the marital status box.
  • If you are married and your spouse was non physically present at the union, choose "married – not physically present" in the marital status box.
• your female parent,
• your father.

Include: full name, relationship, date of nascence, marital status (married, single, widowed, common-law, divorced, separated, annulled union), nowadays accost and occupation (job), and if they will come with yous to Canada by checking ''Yes'' or ''No''.

If a person is deceased, write "deceased" under ''Present address'', and write the city and the date they died.

If not currently employed, please indicate if that person is retired, studying, etc.

You must answer all questions. If a department does non apply to you, write ''Not applicable'' or ''N/A''.

Note: If you do not have a spouse or a common-police force partner, read ''Note 1'', then sign and date the declaration at the end of Section A.

Department B

Write the personal details about your children. It is very important that you list all of your children even if they are already permanent residents or citizens of Canada. This includes:

• married children;
• adopted children;
• children of your spouse (pace-children) or common-law partner;
• any of your children who have been adopted by others; and
• any of your children who are in the custody of an ex-spouse, one-time mutual-law partner or other guardian.

Write full name, relationship, engagement of nativity, marital condition (married, single, widowed, common-law, divorced, separated, annulled marriage), present address and job, and if they will come with you lot to Canada by checking ''Yeah'' or ''No''.

If a person is deceased, indicate this under ''Present accost'', and write the urban center and the date they died.

If non currently employed, please indicate if that person is retired, studying, etc.

You must answer all questions. If a section does not apply to yous, write ''Non applicable'' or ''North/A''.

Note: If y'all do not take children, read ''Annotation 2'', and so sign and date the declaration at the end of Section B.

Section C (IMM 5645 only)

Write the personal details about your:

• brothers,
• sisters,
• half-brothers and half-sisters,
• step-brothers and pace-sisters.

Write full name, relationship, date of nascency, marital condition (married, single, widowed, mutual-constabulary, divorced, separated, annulled marriage), present address and job, and if they will come up with you to Canada by checking ''Yes'' or ''No''.

If a person is deceased, write this under "Present address", and write the city and the date they died.

If not currently employed, please indicate if that person is retired, studying, etc.

You must answer all questions. If a section does not apply to you, write ''Not applicative'' or ''N/A''.

Section C (IMM 5707) or D (IMM 5645)

Signature

Sign and date the boxes at the bottom of the page.

Annotation: By signing, you lot certify that you fully understand the questions asked, and that the information you have given is complete, authentic and factual. If you do not sign or date the grade, your application volition be sent dorsum to you.

Utilise of a Representative (IMM 5476)

Who may utilise this form?

Fill up out this class simply if you:

• are appointing a representative;
• demand to update contact information for your previously appointed representative; or
• are cancelling a representative's appointment.

If you have dependent children aged xviii years or older, they must fill out their ain copy of this class if a representative is also conducting business on their behalf.

Who is a representative?

A representative is someone who:

• you lot have appointed by completing the IMM 5476 grade;
• gives advice, consultation, or guidance to you at any stage of the application process; and
• has your consent to conduct business on your behalf with IRCC and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

You are not obliged to hire a representative. Nosotros treat anybody equally, whether they use the service of a representative or not.

For more information, see: Utilise of a Representative.

Step 3. Pay the fees

Fees

Important information: There are two types of fees:

• an application processing fee;
• a biometric fee.

Notice out if yous need to give biometrics.

Use the table beneath to calculate the full corporeality of fees to exist paid (all fees are in Canadian dollars). The processing fees must exist included with your application. If yous or your family unit members are required to provide biometric information, the biometric fee should exist paid at the same fourth dimension and the aforementioned way every bit the processing fee in order to avoid delays in processing your application.

Annotation: You may exist required to pay fees in local currency.

The same fee applies to both types of visas. We'll decide which visa to give you based on your application.

Find out more nigh the departure between single and multiple entry visas.

Your fees

Application	$Can
Visitor visa (including super visa) - per person Single or multiple entry temporary resident visaWhat'due south this?	$100
Visitor visa – per family (i fee per family unit of five or more people) Single or multiple entry temporary resident visa What'south this?;maximum fee for a family of five or more than people applying at the same fourth dimension and identify	$500
Transit Visa	No fee

Biometrics fees	$Tin can
Biometrics (per person)	85
Biometrics (per family unit) (ii or more people) Maximum fee for a family of 2 or more than people applying at the same time and place	170

Fees are field of study to change at any time.

Note: Brand certain that you lot are eligible before you pay, and gather all the documents requested before you submit the awarding.

The fees will not be refunded, regardless of the concluding decision. For instance, being plant ineligible for a temporary resident visa is part of the processing; the fees volition non be refunded. If yous utilize again, you lot will take to pay some other processing fee and if applicable, another biometric fee.

Visa-exempt visitors applying for a super visa:

If you are a citizen of a country where you do not require a visa to visit Canada, you do non have to pay whatsoever processing fees. However yous will have to satisfy all other requirements to obtain a super visa.

Find out if you need an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) or a visitor visa.

How to pay the fees for your application

To pay your fees for your awarding you'll need:

• a valid email accost;
• admission to a printer (you'll need to impress the receipt),and
• a credit card, Debit MasterCard^® or Visa^® Debit card.

Visit the link below and follow these instructions to pay:

• Become to Online Payment.
• Follow the online instructions.
  • At the end, click on the button to print the IRCC official receipt with barcode. Print ii copies.
• Attach a copy of this receipt to your completed application.
  • Keep the 2d copy of the receipt for your records.

Practise non go out without printing the receipt! The printed receipt is your proof of payment!

Incorrect fee payment

Incorrect fee payments may delay processing.

Payment result – No fee included

We will return your application.

Note: We will start processing of your application afterwards yous render your application with the fees.

Payment issue – Not plenty fees included

We will return your awarding and tell you of how much to pay.

Notation: We volition commencement processing your application in one case you return your application with the correct fees.

Payment issue – Overpayment

We will:

• start processing your application, and
• ship you a refund.

Notation: You do non take to ask for a refund, information technology volition exist done automatically.

Payment effect – required biometric fee not included

We will:

• tell you the fee corporeality and how to pay information technology.

Notation: Nosotros volition go on processing of your awarding after yous send the missing fees.

Step four. Submit the awarding

If I need to give my biometric fingerprints and photo, where exercise I go?

Outside Canada and the U.South.: At 1 of Canada's Visa Awarding Centers (VAC) locations around the world.

In the U.s.: At one of many Awarding Support Centers across the U.S.

In Canada: As of December three, 2019, you tin go to a designated Service Canada location.

At the port of entry: Aviary claimants, and applicants for piece of work and study permits who are eligible to apply at the port of entry.

Consult the list of biometric drove service points.

Note: If y'all need to give biometric fingerprints and photo, yous do not need to include paper photos with your awarding.

If, for some reason, you can't provide your biometric information (photograph and/or fingerprints) or if yous demand more than the 30 days, delight contact us and be prepared to provide a detailed explanation.

Submit the document checklist

Make sure you complete the Document Checklist [IMM 5484] and include information technology with your awarding forms and supporting documents.

What should I submit with my application?

Brand sure y'all complete the Document Checklist and include it with your awarding forms. Make sure you include all the supporting documents listed on the Document Checklist.

If your family members are likewise applying for TRVs, you tin can include your whole family'due south applications in the same envelope.

If you are a permanent resident (PR) overseas, and accept decided to renounce (relinquish) your permanent resident status, you must submit your application for PR renunciation [IMM 5782] (PDF, ane.59 MB) in a split up envelope from your Temporary Resident application.

Temporary Resident applications may be submitted through a Visa Awarding Centre (VAC) or online, while the PR applications must be sent by mail separately to the visa office.

What happens next?

The awarding process

Submission

Completion check

One time you lot have submitted your awarding, we will bank check to make certain that:

• you take properly completed and submitted all of the required application forms;
• you take paid the application processing fee; and
• you have sent all requested supporting documentation.

If your awarding package is incomplete:

• nosotros will return it to y'all;
• nosotros will not create a file; and
• we will not proceed a record until you accept submitted a consummate application.

Note: To avoid processing delays, pay your biometric fees at the aforementioned fourth dimension as your awarding processing fees, using the same method of payment.

Processing

Review for decision

Your awarding will undergo a detailed review past an officer. The officeholder will consider all the information and documentation you lot take provided, and volition assess it and will decide if an interview is necessary. If so, you will exist informed of the interview date, fourth dimension and place.

If your application is refused, whatever original documents, including your passport if submitted with your application, volition be returned to you with an explanation of why your application was refused.

Notation: If we suspect that fraudulent documents were submitted, they will not be returned.

If your application is approved, any original documents, including your passport if submitted with your awarding, will be returned to you with the requested visa.

Visa-exempt visitors applying for a super visa

If your application is canonical, your passport and documents volition be returned to y'all with a letter of introduction.

Inflow in Canada

A valid Temporary Resident Visa is non a guarantee of entry into Canada. An officer at the port of entry volition decide if you still meet the requirements for access when yous go far.

If there has been a change in circumstances between the dates of your application for a visa and your arrival in Canada, or if subsequent data is given which was non originally bachelor to the visa function, you may be refused entry.

When yous go far in Canada, the officer at the port of entry will determine whether you may enter Canada and how long yous may stay. Y'all must leave Canada on or before the appointment set by the officer or have your condition extended by an officeholder in Canada. The postage stamp placed in your passport by a Canadian official is more often than not valid for a period of half-dozen (6) months unless some other duration is specified past the official.

Parent and Grandparent super visa

If you practical for and are issued a Parent and Grandparent super visa, your visitor condition is valid for up to 2 years on each entry to Canada. You must go out Canada on or earlier the date set by the officeholder or use to extend your stay before your status expires. Information technology is your responsibility to maintain valid visitor status. If the stamp in your passport does non take a handwritten date below it, you are allowed to stay for 2 years. If y'all are issued a Company Record when you arrive, you are allowed to stay in Canada until the decease appointment on the certificate.

Notation: for applicants who provided their biometric data as part of their awarding, when y'all arrive at the Canadian port of entry, the officer will:

• check your travel documents and compare you to the photo taken at the time of your application, and
• may inquire y'all to go along to a secondary inspection line where your fingerprints volition be compared with the fingerprints that were taken at the time of your visa application.

What y'all can practice to assist processing

There are certain things y'all can do to assistance make sure your application is candy as fast every bit possible:

• send all documents and information we accept asked for with your awarding
• pay your application and biometric fees (if required)
• provide your biometrics as soon equally possible (if required)
• tell united states if your contact information changes, including:
  • mailing address
  • telephone numbers
  • facsimile number (fax)
  • email address

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Things that delay processing

The following may delay processing:

• unclear photocopies of documents
• verification of your information and documents
• a medical condition that may need more tests or consultations
• a criminal or security problem
• consultation is needed with other offices in Canada and abroad

Protecting your information

Your personal data, including biometric fingerprints and photograph, if given:

• may exist shared with other Canadian government institutions likewise as foreign governments equally permitted under the provisions of the Privacy Act, and
• will be available to IRCC and CBSA employees who demand to come across it in order to provide the services to you, and
• will not be disclosed to anyone else except as permitted nether the provisions of the Privacy Act.

For more information

You lot tin can find more than information well-nigh the protection of your data by visiting the Help Centre.

Find out more than well-nigh the protection of your biometric data.

Quality Assurance Programme

Our quality assurance program randomly chooses applications for a special review. If chosen, we will enquire you lot to attend an interview with an IRCC official to:

• verify that the documentation and whatever other information you submitted is accurate,
• verify that your application has been completed properly.

Note: Nosotros volition notify you lot in writing if your application is chosen.

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If you lot need assist, y'all can find answers to your questions past visiting the Help Centre.

Effective from January i to December 31, 2020

Your child or grandchild may use the following income scale to assess their ability to run across the income requirements.

Depression Income Cut-Off (LICO)

Size of Family Unit	Minimum necessary gross income
i person (your child or grandchild)	$25,921
2 persons	$32,270
three persons	$39,672
4 persons	$48,167
5 persons	$54,630
six persons	$61,613
7 persons	$68,598
More than than 7 persons, for each additional person, add	$6,985

Temporary Resident Visa awarding photo specifications

Provide two photos meeting the requirement of the Visa application photograph specifications. On the back of two photos, write your name and date of nascence.

Note: if yous are required to provide biometric fingerprints and photo, you are non required to include paper photos with your application.

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