Which Examples Define a Family? Select All That Apply.

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

Tabular array of Contents

• Overview
• Before yous apply
• Pace i. Gather documents
• Step two. Complete the application
• Step three. Pay the fees
• Step four. Submit the application
• What happens adjacent?
• Need Help?
• Income Table
• Temporary Resident Visa application photograph specifications

This is not a legal document. The explanations and definitions are not legal definitions. In case of a discrepancy betwixt the linguistic communication in this document and the relevant legislation or regulations, the legal text in the legislation and regulations prevails.

For legal information, see the:

• Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
• Clearing and Refugee Protection Regulations

This information will aid you complete the forms and guide you through the awarding procedure.

Overview

Awarding package

This application package has:

• an instruction guide, and
• the forms you demand to fill out.

The instruction guide:

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

Read the instruction guide completely and and so fill out each of the applicative forms.

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

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Symbols used in this guide

This guide uses these symbols to draw your attention to important data:

What yous must do to accept your application processed.

Important information that you need to know to avert delays or other problems.

Where to become more data.

Note: Tips that will help you with this application.

Before yous utilise

Who may use this application guide?

Use this application guide if you wish to employ for a temporary resident visa from outside Canada.

Who are Visitors?

Visitors are persons who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, and are legally authorized to enter Canada to:

• visit Canada on holiday (vacation),
• visit family,
• conduct business concern, etc.

Visitors are restricted in length of stay and bailiwick to various weather.

Do 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 as well 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 non crave a visa to enter Canada, you may require an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA). Find out if yous need an eTA.

What is a Temporary Resident Visa?

A Temporary Resident Visa (TRV), also referred to as a visitor visa, is an official document issued by a Canadian visa role that is placed in your passport to bear witness that you lot have met the requirements for admission to Canada as a temporary resident (either as a company, a educatee, or a worker).

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

What are the requirements you must come across for a TRV?

You must evidence the officer that you come across the requirements of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Human activity (IRPA) and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations and that you will be in Canada for a temporary stay.

You must also:

• satisfy an officer that you lot will leave Canada at the end of your stay,
• show that you take plenty money to maintain yourself and your family members in Canada and to return domicile,
• non intend to piece of work or study in Canada unless authorized to practice so,
• exist law abiding and have no record of criminal action,
• non exist a gamble to the security of Canada,
• provide whatsoever boosted document requested by the officer to establish your admissibility, and
• be in good health (complete a medical examination if required).

What if I was previously granted permanent resident condition?

If you have ever been granted permanent residence or landed immigrant status in Canada, yous may notwithstanding be a permanent resident. We cannot event you lot a TRV if you are a permanent resident.

You may instead desire to apply for Travel Document (Permanent Resident Abroad). If y'all meet 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 you know you practice not meet the requirements to go along your permanent resident status, you can voluntarily give up (renounce) your permanent resident status in order to employ for a TRV.

Voluntary Renunciation of PR status applications must be sent in a split up envelope by post to the visa function.

We recommend that you apply for Voluntary Renunciation of your PR condition kickoff, and employ for your TRV once you receive the approval of your Voluntary Renunciation.

Entry to Canada

Important data: Entry to Canada is a privilege, not a right. You must meet the necessary requirements and yous may need a Temporary Resident Visa.

Family fellow member definitions

Your family members include your spouse or mutual-police force partner, your dependent children and any children that are their dependent children.

Spouse

Refers to either of the 2 persons (opposite or same gender) in a marriage legally recognized in the country in which it took place, as well as in Canada.

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

Common-law partner

Refers to a person who is living in a conjugal relationship with another person (opposite or aforementioned gender), and has washed and then continuously for a period of at least one year. A conjugal relationship exists when there is a significant caste of commitment between 2 people.

This can exist shown with evidence that the couple share the aforementioned home, back up each other financially and emotionally, take children together, or nowadays themselves in public as a couple.

Common-law partners who have been in a conjugal relationship for at least one year but are unable to live together or appear in public together because of legal restrictions in their dwelling house country or who have been separated for reasons beyond their control (for example, civil war or armed conflict) may however authorize and should exist included on the awarding.

Dependent children

Nosotros assess your child'south eligibility as a dependant based on how former they were at a specific point in time, called the lock-in date. This is ordinarily the engagement nosotros received your application. To come across if your child qualifies as a dependant, we consider the age of your child on the lock-in appointment, even though your child's age may alter during processing.

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

• They're under 22 years sometime, and
• They don't have a spouse or mutual-police partner

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

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

With the exception of age, dependants must continue to encounter these requirements until nosotros finish processing your application.

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

If your child's age was locked in on or before Oct 23, 2017, a previous definition of dependent children may utilise.

Dependent kid of a dependent child

Refers to children of dependent children of the bidder and those of the spouse or common-law partner, if applicable.

Practice I accept to use separately for my family members?

Family members must complete their own awarding forms. Even so, you may submit your applications together online or at a Visa Application Middle (VAC) and utilize one payment receipt for the total corporeality.

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

Are there medical requirements?

If you plan to visit or report for six months or less:

You lot usually exercise not need a medical exam.

If y'all plan to visit or study for more than half-dozen months:

You will need a medical examination if you:

• take lived temporarily for vi or more months in a row
  • in whatsoever of these countries or territories
  • in the one year immediately earlier the date you want to enter Canada. (This applies even if you are a denizen of a land that does not need a visa to enter Canada.)

Regardless of the length of time you are in Canada, you will need a medical test if you wish to work in one of the following fields:

• a designated occupation, such as the field of wellness services or with children. Examples of designated occupations include hospital 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 need a medical exam if you have lived in certain countries or territories.

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

You may either:

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

Get the instructions to complete the medical exam.

When medical results are submitted up front, routine cases benefit from faster processing since we practice not take to ask for them at a later engagement. This is washed at your own cost and does not influence the final conclusion on your awarding. If you lot have an upfront medical test, y'all must submit proof that you completed the medical examination with your application. Failure to do so may result in processing delays.

Biometric (fingerprints and photograph) requirements

You may need to appear in person to have your fingerprints and photo (biometric information) taken at a biometric collection service point. If your family members are also applying, they may need to appear in person to have their biometric information taken besides.

If you're in Canada as a company and you lot utilize for an initial study or piece of work permit, you need to requite your biometrics. Every bit of December iii, 2019, you need to give biometrics when you apply from within Canada. You lot can become to a designated Service Canada location.

Find out if y'all need to give biometrics.

Note: If you need to give biometric fingerprints and photo, you do not need to include paper photos with your application.

How often do you give your biometrics

You only need to requite your biometrics once every ten years. You don't need to requite your biometrics again until the x-yr period expires.

If you gave biometrics in the past every bit office of an application for a visitor visa, work or study allow and they are however valid, you don't demand to requite them again for this awarding.

Detect out if your biometrics are withal 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.

You can give your biometrics after you:

• pay for and submit your application and biometric fees, and
• become a biometric instruction letter of the alphabet (BIL) that will direct you to a list of official locations you lot may cull from. You are encouraged to requite your biometrics as before long as possible later getting the BIL.

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

You may exist able to volume an appointment in advance to requite your biometrics at the same time that you submit your application at a VAC. If you lot tin can't give your biometrics when you submit your awarding you volition have to make an appointment at the VAC to requite them at a later engagement.

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 outset processing your awarding later on we get your biometrics.

Tin can I work or study during my stay in Canada?

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

A temporary resident may also have a plan of study up to 6 months duration without having to obtain a report permit.

Information nigh the parent and grandparent super visa

About the super visa

The multiple-entry super visa allows parents and grandparents to

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

Important data: Applicants who do not commonly require a visa to enter Canada must also submit an application to a visa office. See section beneath for visa-exempt applicants.

Who may apply for a super visa?

To apply 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 mutual-police force partner want to come up with you, they demand to also submit an application.

How do I employ for a super visa?

To use for a super visa, you lot need to submit an application to a visa office and provide

• a letter of invitation written and signed by your kid or grandchild promising financial support for the entire elapsing of your stay in Canada.
  • You must also include your host child or host grandchild'southward family unit composition (dependents, including spouse, children or other relatives that are financially dependent on your host child or host grandchild).
• i of the following documents to bear witness that your kid or grandchild meets the low income cutting-off (LICO) minimum (a co-signer may exist added to meet the LICO minimum):
  • The most recent copy of their federal income revenue enhancement notice of assessment. If your child or grandchild does not have a paper copy of their discover of assessment, they tin can view (and print) their tax returns as well as other personal taxation data using the Canada Revenue Agency's My Account online service. To register or login, visit My Account.
  • The almost recent re-create of the child or grandchild's T4 or T1.
  • An original letter of the alphabet from child's or grandchild's employer stating their championship, job description and bacon.
  • The child or grandchild's employment insurance pay stubs, including
    • a alphabetic character from an accountant confirming almanac income, if self-employed
    • proof of other sources of income (for example, pension argument, investments)
• evidence of the parent or grandparent relationship to the Canadian citizen or permanent resident yous wish to visit (such as a birth document, baptismal document or other official documents naming you lot as parent or grandparent)
• proof that you have private medical insurance valid for a minimum of 1 year from a Canadian insurance visitor 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 be available for review past a border services officer, upon request

After yous use, you volition too need to undergo a medical examination and provide proof of the results.

You lot will be required to appear in person to accept your biometric fingerprints and photo (biometric information) taken at a biometric drove service point.

Visa-exempt applicants

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

If your application is approved, yous will be directed to apply for an electronic travel potency (eTA). You will be provided with a letter that y'all will show to a border services officer upon arrival to Canada.

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

You child or grandchild'due south income must meet or exceed the minimum necessary cut off, as identified annually in the income table.

In the letter of invitation they must calculate their family size. This gene determines the amount of income required to provide care and back up for yous and your spouse, if applicative.

How to calculate family size:

1. Your kid 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 understanding and undertaking are even so in event
2. They count the number of persons they volition exist supporting
   • you, and
   • your spouse or mutual-police partner, if you have ane
3. They add together the number of persons covered by steps 1 and 2. The total represents their family size.
4. They look 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 meet the minimum income required, your child or grandchild may include 1 of the documents listed in the document checklist (IMM 5484).

If your child or grandchild does not meet the LICO minimum, their spouse or common-police force partner tin assist by also providing a letter of invitation with ane of the documents listed in the document checklist (IMM 5484).

Step 1. Gather documents

What documents are required?

Important information: If you do non provide all the requested information or documents, the processing of your application could be delayed.

Minors travelling alone

Minors (under eighteen years of age) travelling alone or with a person other than their parents or legal guardians should have a letter of say-so, preferably in English or French, signed by both parents or legal guardians. It should also include the name of the adult who volition exist responsible for the children in Canada.

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

Translation of documents

You must submit the following for any document that is non in English or French, unless otherwise stated on your document checklist:

• the English or French translation; and
• an affidavit from the person who completed the translation (if they're non a certified translator); and
• a certified copy of the original certificate.

Of import data: Translations must not be washed by the applicants themselves nor past an applicant'south parent, guardian, sibling, spouse, mutual-police force partner, conjugal partner, grandparent, kid, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or first cousin.

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

An affidavit 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 true translation and representation of the contents of the original document.

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

The affirmation 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

Authorisation to administrate oaths varies by country. Consult your local government.

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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 impress all of the following on the photocopy:

• "I certify that this is a true copy 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 non be done past the applicants themselves nor by an bidder's parent, guardian, sibling, spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, grandparent, child, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or first cousin.

People authorized to certify copies include the following:

In Canada:

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

Authority to certify varies by province and territory. Check with your local provincial or territorial regime to acquire who has the authority to certify.

Exterior Canada:

• a notary public

Authority to certify international documents varies by land. Check with your local government to learn who has the authorization to certify in your country.

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Pace 2. Complete the application

Filling out the application

The post-obit are the forms that must be filled out and submitted:

• Application 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 KB), if applicable
• Statutory Declaration of Common-law Union [IMM 5409] (PDF, 0.78 MB), if applicable
• Utilize of a Representative [IMM 5476] (PDF, 1.53 ThousandB), if applicable
• Authority to release personal information to a designated individual [IMM 5475] (PDF, 1.52 KB), if applicable

Note: Yous may exist required to complete additional supporting documents upon request of a visa officeholder.

Important information: It is a serious offence to requite simulated or misleading information on these forms. The information you provide on your application is subject to verification.

Important information

Exist complete and accurate

Complete all sections. If a section does non utilise to you, write "Not Applicative" or "NA", except for your name (terminal name and given name[southward]). Refer to questions 1 and 2 under "Personal Details" department for further instructions. The application must be signed and dated.

If your application is incomplete it may exist rejected and this will delay the processing of your awarding.

If you need more space for any section, impress out an additional page containing the appropriate department, complete information technology and submit it along with your application.

Application for Temporary Resident Visa (IMM 5257)

Who must fill out this application form?

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

Notation

Fill out the class

Yous must answer all the questions on this form unless instructed otherwise.

Download and make full out the form on a computer.

Y'all also have the option to save your grade and make full information technology out later.

Note: Filling out the grade on a computer is easier and reduces mistakes that tin can slow down the application process.

Read and follow the questions beneath to assist you fill up out the form.

Question 1

Type your universal client identification number (UCI), if known. Otherwise, exit information technology blank. If this is your first fourth dimension dealing with us you will not accept a UCI.

Question 2

From the list, select the linguistic communication (English or French) in which you lot would similar to receive your service.

Question iii

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

• Company visa: official certificate issued by a visa office that is placed in the passport which allows yous to seek entry to Canada.
• Transit Visa: is required for persons travelling through Canada for less than 48 hours on their way to another land.

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

Personal Details

Question 1

Full proper name

Type your family name (surname) exactly as shown on your passport or travel certificate (fifty-fifty if the proper noun is misspelled). Practice not use initials.

Note: If you lot do non have a family unit name on your passport or travel document, enter all your given names here and leave the given name field blank.

Type all of your given names (first, 2nd, or more than) exactly as shown on your passport or travel document (even if the name is misspelled). Do not employ initials.

Note: If you practise not have a given name on your passport or travel certificate, leave this field blank. Do not enter "*", "Not applicative" or "NA".

Question 2

Nick names or Alias

Check the box to tell u.s. if you have e'er used whatsoever other proper noun. This could include your nascence name, maiden name, married name, nick name, etc.

If you lot checked "Yeah", type any other family unit name that you have ever used.

If you checked "Yes", blazon any other given name (first, second, or more) that you lot have ever used.

Question 3

Choose your gender (F-Female, Chiliad-Male or 10-Some other gender).

Note: If yous cull a gender identifier that is different than what yous currently have or take had on your Canadian temporary resident document (visa, electronic travel authorisation, work permit, study permit or visitor record), y'all need to complete the Asking for a Alter of Sex activity or Gender Identifier class and send it with your application. If you've never had a Canadian temporary resident document merely you intend to use for one and you identify with a gender that is different than what appears on your foreign travel document or passport, you too demand to consummate the Request for a Alter of Sex or Gender Identifier form and send it with your application. No supporting documents are required.

Question 4

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

Question 5

Note, if your city, town, or country or territory of birth is indicated in your passport or your travel document, please record it as it appears in the document.

Question half dozen

Choose your land 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 nearly cases) or have been granted citizenship by 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 volition be using for this trip.

Question 7

Choose the correct data:

• The name of the country or territory you alive in, if you have been lawfully admitted to that country 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: You must fill out this section if you chose "Other" as a status.
• The dates (From – To) you lot take been living in your land or territory of residence.

Question eight

Check the box to tell u.s.a. if during the past five years, you accept lived in whatsoever other country or territory other than your country of citizenship or your current land or territory of residence (indicated above) for more six months?

If you checked "Yeah", choose the correct information:

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

Question 9

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

If you checked "No", choose the right information:

• The name of the state or territory where yous are applying from,
• Your immigration status in that country or territory by choosing i of the following:
  • Citizen
  • Permanent resident
  • Visitor
  • Worker
  • Student
  • Other
  • Protected Person
  • Refugee Claimant
• Other: You must fill out this section if you chose "Other" every bit a status.
• The dates (From – To) that you lot have been living in that land or territory.

If you are not a citizen of the land or territory where yous are applying, you lot must ship proof of your legal condition in the country or territory you lot alive in when y'all submit your application.

Question 10

1. Cull your current marital status:

   Annulled Wedlock

   This is a marriage that is legally declared invalid. An annulment can likewise exist a declaration by the Catholic Church that the marital union did non accept a binding forcefulness.

   Common-
   Law

   This means that yous have lived continuously with your partner in a marital-blazon relationship for a minimum of one year.

   Divorced

   This means that y'all are officially separated and have legally ended your marriage.

   Legally Separated

   This means that you lot are married, merely are no longer living with your spouse.

   Married

   This means that you and your spouse have had a anniversary that legally binds you to each other. Your marriage must be legally recognized in the country where it was performed and in Canada.

   Unmarried

   This means that y'all accept never been married and are not in a common-constabulary relationship.

   Widowed

   This means that your spouse has died and that you accept not re-married or entered into a common-police force relationship.

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

If you are in a common-law spousal relationship, y'all must also fill out the Statutory Announcement of Common-law Union (IMM 5409) form and include information technology with your application. If you are married, y'all must send a photocopy of your marriage licence or certificate with your awarding.

Question 11

Check the box to tell us if you take e'er been married or in a common-law human relationship. If you checked "Yeah", enter:

• All family names,
• All given names,
• Date of birth,
• Type of relationship:
  • Common-police, or
  • Married.
• Dates (From – To) for which yous were in the relationship with your former spouse or common-law partner.

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Languages

Question i

1. Cull your native language (mother tongue).
2. If your native linguistic communication is not English or French, choose the language yous would most likely use.
   • Both
   • English
   • French
   • Neither
3. Choose English, French or both as your language of advice:
   • English
   • French
   • Both
   • Neither
4. Check Yeah or No to tell us if you accept taken a test from a designated testing agency to test your abilities in English or French.

Passport

Question i

Type your valid passport or travel document number exactly as shown on the certificate. Brand sure there is no space between each number or letter.

Question 2

From the list, select the name of the country or territory that issued your passport or travel document.

Question iii

Enter the date your passport or travel document was issued.

Question four

Enter the date your passport or travel certificate will expire.

Question 5

For this trip – Check Yes or No to tell u.s. if you are using a passport issued past the Ministry of Foreign Diplomacy in Taiwan that shows your personal identification number.

Question vi

For this trip – Check Yep or No to tell united states of america if yous are using a National Israeli passport.

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

Venezuelan passport holders

You may demand to consummate extra steps when you lot fill out your awarding.

If the printed expiry engagement has passed and you're applying for a visitor visa, study allow, piece of work permit or to extend your stay as a temporary resident in Canada, follow these steps:

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

Warning: If your passport is still expired later on calculation v years to the printed expiry appointment, your passport is considered expired. Yous're not eligible to submit an application with that passport.

National Identity Document

Question 1

Check Yes or No to tell u.s.a. if you have a national identity certificate.

Question 2

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

Question three

From the listing, select the name of the country or territory that issued your national identity certificate.

Question iv

Enter the date your national identity document was issued.

Question 5

Enter the appointment your national identity document will expire.

The states PR Card

Question 1

Check Yes or No to tell u.s. if you lot are a lawful Permanent Resident of the United states of america with a valid alien registration menu (light-green card).

Question ii

Enter your valid alien registration card (green card) document number exactly equally shown on the document.

Question iii

Enter when your alien registration card (green card) certificate will expire.

Contact Information

Question 1

Type your current mailing address (where information should be mailed). Make certain you include the following data:

• Mail Part Box (P.O. Box) number, if you have 1. If you practise not have a post office box number, you must type the street number.
• Flat (Apt.) or Unit of measurement,
• Street number (No.). If you did not type in a P.O. Box number, yous must type the street number,
• Street name. Do non abbreviate words (Street, Avenue, Boulevard, Drive, etc.) except for directions (NW, SE, W, etc.)
• Urban center or Town
• From the list, choose the land or territory of your current mailing address.
• Province or State
• Postal lawmaking or zip lawmaking
• District, if it applies to you lot.

All correspondence will become to this accost unless y'all give u.s. your electronic mail address.

If yous wish to have a representative who tin can conduct business on your behalf, you must give us their electronic mail and mailing addresses in this department and make full out the Employ of a Representative (IMM 5476) class.

Question 2

Check the box to tell usa if the address you lot live at is the same as your mailing accost. If "No", type the following information:

• Apartment (Apt.) or Unit of measurement, if information technology applies to you
• Street Number (No.)
• Street Name. Do not abbreviate words (Street, Artery, Boulevard, Drive etc.) except for directions (NW, SE, Westward, etc.)
• City or Town
• Country or territory
• Province or State
• Postal Code or aught lawmaking
• District, if information technology applies to you.

Question three

Cheque the correct box to tell us if the telephone number is from Canada, the United states (US) or Other (whatever other country).

Cull the type of telephone:

• Residence (home)
• Cellular (cell or mobile)
• Concern (piece of work)

Type your phone number including the country code, area or regional codes, etc.

If y'all have an extension number, write it later on your phone number under "Ext."

Question 4

Cheque the correct box to tell us if your other telephone number is from Canada, the United States or Other (any other country).

Choose the blazon of telephone:

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

Type your phone number including the country code, area or regional codes, etc.

If you have an extension number, write it after your phone number under "Ext."

Question 5

Check the correct box to tell us if the facsimile (fax) number is from Canada, the United States or Other (any other land).

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

Question 6

If you take one, type your electronic mail address using a format like to the following: proper noun@provider.net

Notation: Make sure you check your e-mail regularly. Any emails sent to you by IRCC will terminate in:

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

Please add these to your "safe senders" list in your email program and cheque the junk mail folder in case of import emails go filtered. If we find that your email accost does not work or no longer exists, we will communicate with yous by post. By giving u.s. your electronic mail address, you are hereby authorizing us to send your correspondence, including file and personal information electronically to this address.

Details of Visit to Canada

Question 1

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

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

2. Provide details.

Question ii

Enter the dates (From – To) that yous plan to stay in Canada.

Question 3

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

Question four

Type the following information nearly the person(s) or institution(s), including schools you intend to visit during your stay in Canada:

• Proper name (includes the name of a person or a name of an institution)
• Relationship yous have with this person or establishment (friend, family, co-worker, etc.)
• Their address in Canada (street number, street proper noun, urban center or town and postal code).

Education

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

Examples of post-secondary instruction:

Trade or Apprenticeship

Grooming completed in a specific trade, such every bit carpentry or auto mechanics.

Non-university certificate or diploma

Training in a profession that requires formal pedagogy just not at the university level (for example, dental technician or applied science technician).

Bachelor's degree

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

Master'due south caste

Academic caste awarded past a graduate school of a college or university. Yous must have completed a Bachelor's degree earlier a Master'southward degree can be earned.

PhD

Highest university degree usually based on at to the lowest degree iii years of graduate studies and a thesis. Normally, y'all must take finished a Chief'south caste before a PhD can be earned.

If you checked "Yes", requite us total details of your highest level of post-secondary education:

• Enter the dates (twelvemonth and month) yous attended the institution
• Field(s) of report (mechanics, social sciences, medicine, etc.)
• Schoolhouse or Facility name
• City or Boondocks
• Country or territory (cull from the list) and
• Province or State.

Employment (Work or task)

Enter the post-obit data virtually your employment for the past 10 years. If you are retired, give information virtually the 10 years before your retirement.

Question 1

Current activity or task

Give details most your electric current activity or job:

• dates (year and month) you have been working at your electric current chore,
• activity or task, or a cursory description of your position. If yous do not work, depict what yous are currently doing (retired, not working, going to school, etc.),
• proper name of the company, employer or facility where you lot work,
• Metropolis or Town,
• Country or territory,
• Province or Land, if it applies to you

Question 2

Previous action or job

Requite details of your previous activity or job for the past 10 years. If you are retired, include the details most the 10 years before your retirement.

If yous demand more space, impress out another folio of the course, fill in this department and submit it with your awarding.

Background Information

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

Question 1

Bank check the box to indicate if:

1. you or any of your family unit members have ever had tuberculosis of the lungs or been in close contact with a person with tuberculosis within the by ii years.
2. you have any concrete or mental disorder that would require social and/or health services other than medication during your stay in Canada.
3. If you lot checked "Yes" to any of the above questions, provide details and the name of the family member, if applicative.

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

Question two

Check the box to indicate if you accept always:

1. remained beyond the validity of your status, attended schoolhouse without authorization or worked without authorization in Canada.
2. been refused a visa or permit, denied entry or ordered to exit Canada or any other state or territory.
3. Applied previously to enter or remain in Canada.
4. If you checked "Yes" to one of the above questions, provide details.

Question 3

Bank check the box to bespeak if you accept ever:

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

Question 4

1. Check the box to indicate if you have ever served in any military, militia, ceremonious defence unit, served in a security arrangement or police force (including not-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 5

Check "Yes" or "No" to indicate if y'all have ever been a member or associated with whatsoever political party, or other group or system which has engaged in or advocated violence every bit means to achieving a political or religious objective, or which has been associated with criminal activeness at any time.

Question half dozen

Cheque "Yes" or "No" to indicate if yous accept ever witnessed or participated in the ill treatment of prisoners or civilians, looting or desecration of religious buildings.

To complete your form:

1. One time the awarding is completed, click on the "Validate" button located at the acme or lesser of the course. This will generate a barcode page (page five of v) – see epitome beneath. If this application class is completed on a computer and printed, you must place the barcode page on the meridian of your application (or if applying every bit a group, each individual awarding packet).

   

   Annotation: This barcode page will not appear if you fill out your application by hand.

2. If y'all are 18 years of age or older, you must sign and date in the boxes provided at the bottom of the page.

   If you are less than 18 years of age, your grade must be signed by 1 of your parents or a legal guardian.

   Note: By signing, you certify that you lot fully sympathise the questions asked, and that the data yous have provided is consummate, accurate, and factual. If you do not sign and date the awarding form, it will be returned to y'all.

Family Information (IMM 5645 or IMM 5707)

Who needs to complete this class?

This form must be completed by each person, 18 years of age or older, applying for a Temporary Resident Visa, a study or piece of work let outside Canada.

Which course needs to be completed?

You must complete the Family unit Information form (IMM 5645 or IMM 5707) listed in the application package for your state.

Section A

Write the personal details most:

• yourself,
  • If you are married and you were physically present at the marriage, cull "married – physically present" in the marital status box.
  • If you are married and y'all were not physically present at the matrimony, choose "married – non physically present" in the marital condition box.
• your spouse or common-law partner, if information technology applies to y'all,
  • If you are married and your spouse was physically present at the union, choose "married – physically present" in the marital status box.
  • If you are married and your spouse was non physically present at the marriage, choose "married – not physically nowadays" in the marital status box.
• your mother,
• your male parent.

Include: full name, human relationship, date of nascence, marital status (married, single, widowed, common-constabulary, divorced, separated, annulled union), present address and occupation (job), and if they will come with y'all to Canada by checking ''Yes'' or ''No''.

If a person is deceased, write "deceased" under ''Nowadays address'', and write the urban center and the engagement they died.

If not currently employed, delight bespeak if that person is retired, studying, etc.

You must reply all questions. If a section does not utilize to you, write ''Not applicable'' or ''Northward/A''.

Note: If you do not accept a spouse or a common-law partner, read ''Note i'', and so sign and date the annunciation at the end of Section A.

Section B

Write the personal details virtually your children. It is very of import that y'all 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 (stride-children) or common-constabulary partner;
• whatever of your children who have been adopted by others; and
• whatever of your children who are in the custody of an ex-spouse, former common-law partner or other guardian.

Write total proper noun, relationship, engagement of nascency, marital status (married, unmarried, widowed, mutual-constabulary, divorced, separated, annulled union), present address and task, and if they will come with you to Canada by checking ''Yes'' or ''No''.

If a person is deceased, signal this under ''Present accost'', and write the city and the date they died.

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

Y'all must answer all questions. If a section does not apply to y'all, write ''Not applicable'' or ''N/A''.

Note: If you exercise not have children, read ''Note 2'', then sign and date the announcement at the end of Department B.

Section C (IMM 5645 just)

Write the personal details most your:

• brothers,
• sisters,
• half-brothers and one-half-sisters,
• step-brothers and footstep-sisters.

Write total proper name, relationship, date of birth, marital status (married, single, widowed, common-constabulary, divorced, separated, annulled spousal relationship), present address and job, and if they will come with you to Canada past checking ''Yes'' or ''No''.

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

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

You must answer all questions. If a department does not utilize 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.

Note: Past signing, you certify that you fully understand the questions asked, and that the data you lot have given is consummate, authentic and factual. If yous do non sign or date the grade, your application will be sent back to you.

Use of a Representative (IMM 5476)

Who may utilise this form?

Make full out this form only if you:

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

If you lot have dependent children aged 18 years or older, they must make full out their own re-create of this grade if a representative is also conducting business concern on their behalf.

Who is a representative?

A representative is someone who:

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

You lot are not obliged to hire a representative. We care for everyone equally, whether they use the service of a representative or non.

For more than information, see: Use of a Representative.

Footstep three. Pay the fees

Fees

Important information: There are two types of fees:

• an application processing fee;
• a biometric fee.

Find out if you need to give biometrics.

Employ the table below to calculate the total amount of fees to be paid (all fees are in Canadian dollars). The processing fees must be included with your application. If y'all or your family members are required to provide biometric information, the biometric fee should be paid at the same time and the aforementioned way as the processing fee in order to avert delays in processing your application.

Note: You may be required to pay fees in local currency.

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

Notice out more well-nigh the departure between single and multiple entry visas.

Your fees

Application	$Tin can
Visitor visa (including super visa) - per person Unmarried or multiple entry temporary resident visaWhat's this?	$100
Visitor visa – per family (1 fee per family of 5 or more people) Single or multiple entry temporary resident visa What's this?;maximum fee for a family of 5 or more than people applying at the same time and identify	$500
Transit Visa	No fee

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

Fees are subject area to modify at whatsoever time.

Note: Make sure that you are eligible earlier you pay, and gather all the documents requested before yous submit the awarding.

The fees will not be refunded, regardless of the last decision. For example, existence constitute ineligible for a temporary resident visa is part of the processing; the fees will non be refunded. If you utilise again, you volition have to pay another processing fee and if applicable, some other biometric fee.

Visa-exempt visitors applying for a super visa:

If yous are a citizen of a state where y'all do non require a visa to visit Canada, you practice not have to pay any processing fees. All the same yous will have to satisfy all other requirements to obtain a super visa.

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

How to pay the fees for your application

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

• a valid electronic mail address;
• admission to a printer (you'll need to print the receipt),and
• a credit menu, Debit MasterCard^® or Visa^® Debit card.

Visit the link below and follow these instructions to pay:

• Go to Online Payment.
• Follow the online instructions.
  • At the end, click on the button to impress the IRCC official receipt with barcode. Impress two copies.
• Adhere a re-create of this receipt to your completed application.
  • Continue the second copy of the receipt for your records.

Do not exit without printing the receipt! The printed receipt is your proof of payment!

Incorrect fee payment

Incorrect fee payments may delay processing.

Payment issue – No fee included

We will return your awarding.

Note: Nosotros will get-go processing of your application later on you return your application with the fees.

Payment upshot – Non enough fees included

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

Note: We will first processing your application once y'all return your application with the correct fees.

Payment issue – Overpayment

Nosotros volition:

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

Annotation: You practice not take to ask for a refund, it will be done automatically.

Payment event – required biometric fee non included

We volition:

• tell yous the fee amount and how to pay it.

Notation: Nosotros will continue processing of your application later on you send the missing fees.

Step 4. Submit the application

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

Outside Canada and the U.S.: At one of Canada'due south Visa Awarding Centers (VAC) locations around the world.

In the United states: At one of many Application Support Centers across the U.S.

In Canada: As of December 3, 2019, you lot can go to a designated Service Canada location.

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

Consult the list of biometric drove service points.

Note: If you lot need to give biometric fingerprints and photo, you do not need to include paper photos with your awarding.

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

Submit the document checklist

Make sure you lot consummate the Certificate Checklist [IMM 5484] and include it with your application forms and supporting documents.

What should I submit with my application?

Make certain you complete the Document Checklist and include it with your application forms. Make sure you include all the supporting documents listed on the Document Checklist.

If your family members are as well applying for TRVs, you can include your whole family'southward applications in the same envelope.

If you are a permanent resident (PR) overseas, and have decided to renounce (relinquish) your permanent resident condition, you must submit your application for PR renunciation [IMM 5782] (PDF, 1.59 YardB) in a carve up envelope from your Temporary Resident application.

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

What happens next?

The application process

Submission

Completion check

One time you take submitted your awarding, we will check to make sure that:

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

If your awarding package is incomplete:

• we will return it to you;
• we will not create a file; and
• we will non go on a record until you lot have submitted a complete application.

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

Processing

Review for decision

Your application will undergo a detailed review by an officeholder. The officer will consider all the information and documentation you have provided, and will appraise information technology and will decide if an interview is necessary. If so, yous volition be informed of the interview appointment, time and place.

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

Note: If we doubtable that fraudulent documents were submitted, they volition not be returned.

If your application is approved, whatever original documents, including your passport if submitted with your awarding, will exist returned to y'all with the requested visa.

Visa-exempt visitors applying for a super visa

If your application is approved, your passport and documents will be returned to yous with a letter of introduction.

Arrival in Canada

A valid Temporary Resident Visa is not a guarantee of entry into Canada. An officer at the port of entry will decide if you still run into the requirements for access when yous make it.

If there has been a alter in circumstances between the dates of your application for a visa and your arrival in Canada, or if subsequent information is given which was not originally available to the visa office, y'all may exist refused entry.

When you arrive in Canada, the officer at the port of entry will determine whether y'all may enter Canada and how long you may stay. You must leave Canada on or earlier the date gear up by the officer or have your status extended by an officer in Canada. The stamp placed in your passport by a Canadian official is generally valid for a catamenia of half-dozen (6) months unless some other elapsing is specified by the official.

Parent and Grandparent super visa

If yous practical for and are issued a Parent and Grandparent super visa, your visitor status is valid for up to 2 years on each entry to Canada. You must leave Canada on or before the date set by the officer or apply to extend your stay before your status expires. It is your responsibleness to maintain valid visitor status. If the stamp in your passport does non take a handwritten appointment below it, you are allowed to stay for two years. If you are issued a Visitor Record when y'all arrive, you are allowed to stay in Canada until the expiry date on the document.

Note: for applicants who provided their biometric information equally part of their application, when yous arrive at the Canadian port of entry, the officer volition:

• check your travel documents and compare y'all to the photograph taken at the time of your application, and
• may ask you to proceed to a secondary inspection line where your fingerprints will be compared with the fingerprints that were taken at the time of your visa application.

What you can do to assistance processing

At that place are sure things you can do to help brand sure your application is candy equally fast as possible:

• send all documents and information we accept asked for with your awarding
• pay your awarding and biometric fees (if required)
• provide your biometrics equally shortly as possible (if required)
• tell u.s.a. if your contact information changes, including:
  • mailing address
  • telephone numbers
  • facsimile number (fax)
  • east-mail service accost

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Things that delay processing

The post-obit may delay processing:

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

Protecting your information

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

• may be shared with other Canadian government institutions as well equally foreign governments equally permitted under the provisions of the Privacy Human action, and
• volition be bachelor to IRCC and CBSA employees who need to see it in gild to provide the services to you, and
• will not be disclosed to anyone else except as permitted under the provisions of the Privacy Act.

For more than data

Yous can find more data nearly the protection of your information by visiting the Help Centre.

Find out more about the protection of your biometric information.

Quality Assurance Program

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

• verify that the documentation and whatever other information y'all submitted is authentic,
• verify that your awarding has been completed properly.

Note: We volition notify yous in writing if your application is chosen.

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If you lot need assist, you lot can discover answers to your questions past visiting the Assist Eye.

Constructive from Jan i to December 31, 2020

Your kid or grandchild may use the following income scale to appraise their ability to see the income requirements.

Low Income Cut-Off (LICO)

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

Temporary Resident Visa application photograph specifications

Provide two photos meeting the requirement of the Visa application photograph specifications. On the back of ii photos, write your name and engagement of nascency.

Note: if y'all are required to provide biometric fingerprints and photograph, you are not required to include paper photos with your application.

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Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/guide-5256-applying-visitor-visa-temporary-resident-visa.html

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