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Before you go to a fascinating adventure on Canada, you should take care of obtaining a tourist visa, which is not as difficult to do as it seems.
In our article it is described in detail how to independently get a Russian tourist visa, what document to prepare how to fill the Canadian questionnaire and how much it will cost.
Categories Visa to Canada
Sample tourist visa to Canada
Requirements for tourists
Two basic requirements are that the tourist must have a passport, which at the time of the trip should be valid at least six months and take into account all the criteria that prohibit entry into the country.
These criteria include:
- Lack of health problems.
- Prove financial consistency.
- Leave the country before the expiration of the visa is not to stay in Canada illegally.
- Do not refer to the category of persons who are forbidden to visit the country.
- In order to confirm the absence of serious health problems, you need to go through a medical examination before traveling and get a documentary confirmation.
- It should also be documented by the financial wealth and the fact that you are interested in leave Canada on time. This may be a certificate of work, a marriage certificate, a child's birth certificate and any other connection with the homeland.
List of required documents for registration
The standard set of documents consists of:
Depending on the purpose of the trip, in addition to the above, the documents must be prepared:
- Tourism:
- Confirmed documentary reservation at the hotel, with a specified travel period, traveler surnames, a variety of rooms, reservation rooms, addresses, telephones and other ways to communicate with the hotel.
- Confirmation of financial consistency. Suitable an extract from a bank account or credit card for the last 3 months.
- Help from the place of work, where they should be spelled out: position, experience, salary size. It is important to be the item where it is said that an employee at the time of travel is supposed to leave a workplace guard. Entrepreneurs provide a set of documents confirming the registration of the enterprise.
- Individual entrepreneurs Provide documents on registration of IP. In mandatory, the package must include certificates from the tax.
- Visiting friends or relatives:
- Confirmation of financial consistency for tourist trip.
- Invitation from Canada, where it is indicated: the name, address, phone number of both sides, the goal and the period of the trip, the indication in which relations are invited and inviting.
- A copy of the permanent resident immigration / card / copy of a citizen of Canada, who is an inviting person.
- If inviting is a trip sponsor, you should provide documents confirming the financial wealth of inviting.
- Business trip:
- Invitation from the inviting company, data on the managers and the company itself.
- The travel program, as well as the documented purpose of the visit.
- Documents confirming the company's registration on the territory of Canada, as well as a copy of corporate tax notice from the Ministry of Tax Recubuses, certified by the notary.
- Transit visa. A visa-free transit is prohibited. The exception is only if during stay in Canada is planned to travel to America, on Saint-Pierre Island or Miquelon, and after the trip will be a return to Canada until the end of the visa is the end of the visa - in this case there is an ordinary one-time visa. To obtain a transit visa, it is necessary:
- Direct documents (for example, copies of airline tickets), hotel armor throughout the route.
- Photocopy visited states.
- Proof of the availability of sufficient cash for traveling.
Rules of filling the questionnaire for a tourist visa
The IMM 5257 questionnaire includes 7 sections:
The applicant's questionnaire consists of 5 pages. The questionnaire with general information begins:
- 1 item - UCI. Filled by those who have already received a visa to Canada and whose data are available in the Canadian computer base. Those who are submitted for a visa to Canada for the first time misses this item.
- 2 item - Select language (English or French). Even if the applicant does not know any of the proposed languages, one of two is still selected.
- 3 item is a selection of a visa type. Two options are presented: a temporary resident visa or transit. The appropriate option is selected.
1 section - Personal Information
Filling 1 section of the questionnaire:
- 1 and 2 item - Surname and name in accordance with the passport.
- 3 Point - Paul (female / male).
- 4 point - Date of birth in the Priority of GGHYMDD. Using points is prohibited.
- 5 point - Place of Birth. It is indicated by the country and the settlement in which the applicant lives.
- 6 point - actual citizenship.
- 7 point - A country of residence at the time of the visa and its civil status in a given country.
- 8 point - List all the countries in which the applicant lived in the past five years. Information is provided only to those countries in which the applicant lived more than six months.
- 9 point - An indication of the country in which you plan to apply for a visa. If the country of residence coincides with the country of filling and feeding the questionnaire, you should choose "Yes."
- 10 point - marital status. Partner data is indicated, as well as the date of marriage, or the start date of the joint residence.
- 11 point - Data on former spouses.
2 Section - Data of a foreign passport
Filling 2 section of the questionnaire:
- Serial number.
- Country issuing.
- Date of issue.
- The term of the passport.
3 Section - Existing Contact Information
Filling 3 section of the questionnaire:
- Postal address that may not coincide with accommodation address. It may be the address of close relatives or friends.
- The address of actual accommodation in a given period of time.
- Actual phone number.
- An additional phone number in which you can contact the applicant. For example, a worker.
- If you have a fax, you should specify its number.
- E-mail address.
4 Section - Travel Information
Filling 4 section of the questionnaire:
- Purpose of the trip. Data on the goal of the trip should coincide with the collected package of documents.
- Duration of stay in Canada.
- The estimated amount of money that the applicant plans to spend in Canada.
- Specify the data of the host, whether it is a person, organization, educational institution or hotel.
5 section - Education
In this section, the applicant must be answered about the availability of vocational education. If the answer is positive, you should fill out all the information that concerns the place of study, specialty and the country where the training was trained.
6 section - place of work
This section indicates all the applicant's work planes over the past 10 years, including the current position, the address of the organization.
7 section - biographical data
These section is filled with only adult applicants:
- 1 item includes questions about the presence of certain diseases. It is recommended to answer all questions to "no", since otherwise it will be necessary to provide medical certificates.
- 2 item includes information about visas issued to Canada, and visa failures.
- 3 item includes questions about the criminal past.
- 4 item includes the question of the passage of military service. With a positive response, you should specify the dates and dates.
- 5 item includes the question of the experience in exploration or police.
- 6 item includes the issue of work in senior positions in government structures.
- 7 item includes the question of the participation of the applicant in hostilities.
If the profile is applied not online, but personally, it needs to be printed and sign.
Each trip to Canadian fills the questionnaire individually, even children:
- Application form IMM 5645E (family information). This questionnaire indicates information about spouses, parents, children, brothers and sisters. Includes three sections.
- Additional information for the questionnaire is filled from hand and only by the performers. Includes 13 questions that will help visa workers to make a clear picture of your stay in Canada. The answer to the questions is carried out in yes / no mode.
All questionnaires must be decorated in accordance with the following rules:
- It is prohibited to use abbreviations and initials.
- Questionnaires must be filled in electronic form. Manually filled questionnaires are not accepted.
- The language on which the questionnaire should be filled with only English or French.
Procedure for obtaining a visa
Getting any type of visa assumes only online feed or access to the visa center. The Visa Department of the Canadian Embassy in Moscow takes exceptionally questionnaires for immigration visas.
Applications are accepted in the following ways:
Application online application includes the following steps:
- After answering the category of category Determine Your ELIGibility and Apply Online. After that, the site will answer the question if the person can submit a statement in accordance with the answers. And the system will install a personal Check List Code, which in the future will be needed to gain access to the list of documents, all the necessary folders and materials for the application. The term of the code is 3 months. After this period, the test will have to go back.
- The next stage is the preparation of documents.
- Save the completed questionnaire in PDF format.
- Prepare copies of air tickets, hotel armor in PDF, Doc or DOCX formats, if they were not issued in electronic form.
- Scanned photos and documents accompanying a visa application (certificate from the place of work, extract from the bank account, etc.).
- The size of each attached file should not be more than 4 MB.
- After preparing the documents, you need to create a personal account on the website of the Ministry of Citizenship and Migration of Canada in the E-Services section. Such a procedure will allow you to get an electronic access key that will ensure a secure input.
- After the registration has passed, the visa formation procedure begins. The system gives full instructions to the sequence of actions.
- Payment of visa collection.
- The application is automatically sent to SiC, and an email comes to feedback. It should be printed.
- After consideration of the application, a letter comes to the specified email. If the answer is positive - during the month, the applicant should provide a passport to the consular department, where it will go into an appropriate visa.
Submission of applications through visa centers
Reception of documents is carried out in Canada's visa centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk daily from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 16.00.
What is required when applying for a visa center:
- Original passport.
- Full package of documents.
- Signed application for consent to the processing of personal data.
Consular fee
The table shows the prices of consular fees:
Adults and children pay the same consular fee. In the event of a refusal of money paid, the return is not subject to.
Duration of Visa
Since 2014, the Canada government actively issued reusable visas instead of one-time. As a rule, the validity period is from 5 to 10 years, it all depends on the duration of the passport. However, the consulate can give a one-time six-month visa.
The number of stays is indicated depending on:
- The period specified in the invitation.
- Terms of hotel armor.
- As well as from the decision of the border service employee. It is installed at the entrance and fits down under the stamp.
Refusal in the Canadian Visa
You can even submit documents on the next day
Preparation of documents - the most important step, you will have to make maximum strength and collect a full package of documents not to cause doubts from the Canadian Embassy.
Citizens of Russia and the CIS for visiting Canada requires a visa. A visa can be issued by submitting documents online on the website of the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada (CIC), the visa center of Canada in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok.
Types of Visa
Temporary Resident Visa (Temporary Resident Visa)
- Visa is issued to individuals whose goal is tourism, visiting relatives or friends, or training (the course is designed for a period of not more than 6 months), a business visit. These visas can be both one-time and multiple.
Transit visa
- Visa is issued to persons whose purpose is transit through Canada's territory in third countries.
student visa
- issued to persons whose goal is to study in officially registered educational institutions of Canada. In this case, the course is calculated at least for 6 months.
Temporary resident visas
To obtain this type of visas, you must provide a fairly large set of documents to the consulate, while their list differs depending on the purpose of the trip.
The purpose of the trip is tourism:
- CIC requirements;
- confirmation of the hotel's reservation (original, fax or printout from the Internet) with the dates of travel, tourist surnames, room, reservation rooms, addresses, telephone and email addresses of the hotel;
- proof of the availability of sufficient funds for traveling: a photocopy of savings / bank account book, or an extract from a bank account or credit card account (in English or French) with the Bank's seal;
- for students and schoolchildren, a birth certificate (copy) is needed, a certificate from the place of study, a copy of the student ticket, a statement about the sponsorship of a trip from parents and documents confirming their financial well-being and the ability to pay a trip;
- for children traveling accompanied by one of the parents or third parties, it is necessary to provide a copy of a notarized permit for the removal of a child from the remaining parent / parents.
The purpose of the trip is a visit to friends or relatives:
- a copy of the passport, whose validity period is at least 6 months from the end of the trip (the original is provided after notifying the visa department). Each applicant, including children, should be their separate passport;
- 2 The same 3,5x4.5 cm in size is taken both color and black and white photographs that must comply with CIC requirements;
- questionnaire to receive a temporary resident visa (IMM 5257) filled in English or French and personally signed by the applicant (when submitting a signature is not required). Questionnaires filled in Russian, not accepted to consideration;
- additional information about family information (IMM5645E) filled in English or French and signed by the applicant;
- "Additional information for the questionnaire for a temporary resident visa", filled in English or French and signed by the applicant;
- evidence of the availability of sufficient funds for traveling: a photocopy of savings / bank account book, or an extract from a bank account or credit card account (in English or French) with the Bank's seal;
- invitation (copy) from Canada, in which the name, address and telephone inviting and invited, the purpose and date of the trip, the degree of kinship or the indication in which relations are the persons specified in the application. The invitation must be attached to the document package - sent directly to the embassy are not considered;
- copies of documents confirming the status of a permanent resident of the inviting (notarized copy of a Canadian immigration visa or a copy of a permanent resident of Canada, or a copy of the passport / ID of a citizen of Canada);
- original certificate from the place of work indicating the post, experience of work and salary. Also, the certificate must contain a phrase that the employee during the trip to Canada offers a vacation with preservation of the workplace. Help is performed in English or French, or accompanied by a certified translation. Private entrepreneurs - documents on the registration of the enterprise and formulate it for tax accounting;
- pensioners need to provide a copy of the pension certificate, a letter of sponsorship from one of the relatives, a certificate from his place of work, indicating the position, work experience, salary and a copy of the first page of his passport;
- for students and schoolchildren - a certificate from the place of study and an extract about academic achievement, a statement about the sponsorship of a trip from parents and documents confirming their financial well-being and the ability to pay for the trip;
- if the applicant's trip is paid by the Canadian side - evidence of the financial consistency of the inviting party (a notarized copy of the last notice of Notice of Assessment, the T4 form received from the Ministry of Tax Collection of Canada or other documents).
The purpose of the visit is a business trip:
In this case, the same documents are needed as for a trip to tourism / private visits, however, instead of the hotel's hotel or an invitation from a private person must provide
- an invitation letter on the corporate form from a partner in Canada. In this invitation, you should specify the name of the Canadian company and the names of the managers, the name of the responsible employee, with which you can contact, address the company, the contact number of the phone or fax and the purpose of the applicant's trip;
- the program of visit and any documents confirming the purpose of the visit (business correspondence, copies of contracts, etc.);
- a copy of the Canadian document on the registration of a partner company and a notarized copy of the last corporate tax notice from the Ministry of Tax Recubuses Canada.
Transit visa
A visa-free transit is prohibited, however, if during your stay in Canada, a trip to the United States or the Islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is planned, and then return to Canada until the expiration of the visa expires, a standard one-time visa is requested, and the visas of these states must be submitted.
To obtain a transit visa, the following documents are necessary:
- a copy of the passport, whose validity period is at least 6 months from the end of the trip (the original is provided after notifying the visa department). Each applicant, including children, should be their separate passport;
- 2 The same 3,5x4.5 cm in size is taken both color and black and white photographs that must comply with CIC requirements;
- questionnaire to receive a temporary resident visa (IMM 5257) filled in English or French and personally signed by the applicant (when submitting a signature is not required). Questionnaires filled in Russian, not accepted to consideration;
- additional information about family information (IMM5645E) filled in English or French and signed by the applicant;
- "Additional information for the questionnaire for a temporary resident visa", filled in English or French and signed by the applicant;
- copies of airline tickets or confirmation of tickets all over the route;
- visa to the country of the following, if required;
- proof of the availability of sufficient funds for traveling: a photocopy of savings / bank account, or an extract from a bank account or credit card account (in English or French);
- original certificate from the place of work indicating the post, experience of work and salary. Also, the certificate must contain a phrase that the employee during the trip to Canada offers a vacation with preservation of the workplace. Help is performed in English or French, or accompanied by a certified translation. Private entrepreneurs - documents on the registration of the enterprise and formulate it for tax accounting;
- pensioners need to provide a copy of the pension certificate, a letter of sponsorship from one of the relatives, a certificate from his place of work, indicating the position, work experience, salary and a copy of the first page of his passport;
- for students and schoolchildren - certificate from the place of study and extract about academic progress, a statement about the sponsorship of a trip from parents and documents confirming their financial well-being and the ability to pay a trip.
Important!
Consulate of Canada strongly recommends do not provide the original passport along with a visa application. The original passport is requested only after a positive decision is made to issue a visa. The applicant will have to provide it within a month from the moment of receipt of a visa extradition notification.
Exceptions are cases when visa applications are submitted through Canada's visa centers. When contacting a visa center, the presence of the original passport is the main condition for receiving and processing documents. The passport together with the rest of the documents is transferred to the consulate, so the applicant during the whole period will be considered as requested, will not be able to leave the Russian Federation.
Requirements for accompanying documents
All documents submitted to the support of the visa application must be represented in French or English or accompanied by translations to one of these languages. Translations must be performed by a professional translator and is certified by the seal of the Translation Bureau. Notarized translation is not required. Translations cannot be fulfilled by the applicant or a member of his family.
The list of mandatory documents for obtaining a visitor visa to Canada does not include medstrashovka, but its presence significantly increases the chances of obtaining a visa. The insurance policy should be decorated for the entire period of stay in Canada, the coating should be at least $ 40,000.
By applying for a visa, it is necessary to convince the immigration service that the applicant has a good reason for a trip to Canada, but at the same time he is not going to stay in the country longer than the validity period of the visa and return to the country of residence. Copies of documents on the availability of real estate, copies of marriage certificates, the birth of children, etc. can serve as evidence. When applying for online details, these documents must be scanned and attached in electronic form to the application in accordance with the instructions of the system.
The Consular Division of the Canadian Embassy has the right to request additional documents or invite the applicant to the interview, which should be in a strictly specified time, otherwise the visa will be denied.
Form form and rules for their fill
All questionnaires are filled only in English or French. The consideration does not accept questionnaires filled in Russian or by hand.
Application application application for a temporary resident visa IMM 5257 contains the following blocks of questions: information about the applicant; about the purpose of the visit and the plan of the trip; information on health and criminal past; Information about the service in the army, police, government organizations. It is necessary to clearly answer all the questionnaire questions. After all the fields are filled, the questionnaire must be printed and sign (in the event of a visa over the Internet, you are not required to print and sign the questionnaire. It must be saved in PDF format and then attach in electronic form in your account). No question of the questionnaire must be printed in obligatory, including pages containing the bar code. A separate questionnaire is filled with each participant of the trip, regardless of age.
Additionally, you must fill out the questionnaires:
- "Family Information" (IMM5645E) - indicate the names, names, date of birth, addresses and rod of the classes of spouses, parents, children, brothers and sisters.
- "Additional information for the questionnaire to receive a temporary resident visa." This form is filled with the main applicant, regardless of return. This is the only questionnaire that is filled from hand.
This is not required to fill in faces. Which are followed in Canada for short-term courses of studying English or French.
Ride with children
If you plan to travel with children, they need to provide a separate and complete package of documents. If the child is traveling accompanied by one of the parents or third parties, it is necessary to provide a copy of a notarized power of attorney to depart the child from the remaining parent / parents.
If a child rides without escorting both parents, it is necessary to provide a notarized "consent of the parents for care", trusting a complete care for the child to a citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. Consent must be signed by both parents.
It is also necessary to provide a notarized ahead of the trustee, signed by a citizen or a permanent resident of Canada at least 19 years old, which will take care of the child during his stay in Canada.
Important! Each child, regardless of age, should be their own passport. Applications for children inscribed in the passport of parents and not having their passport are not accepted.
The procedure for applying for a visa
Documents for all types of visual vessels (guest, training, tourist, work permit) are accepted only online or visa centers.
In the visa department of the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, applications for immigration visas are accepted. Such documents can be submitted personally on Wednesday from 09.00 to 10.00, by mail or through a special box for receiving applications. Attention! Boxing for receiving documents in the Visa Department of the Embassy not intended for applications for temporary visa!
Submission of a visa application via the Internet
A visa application can be submitted online directly on the website of the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada (CIC).
Before submitting the application itself, it is necessary to answer a number of questions in the Determine Your Eligibility and Apply Online section, as a result, the system will indicate whether this person can apply online, and assign an individual checklist code to the applicant - it is required to open access to the list of necessary documents and folders for Download files when applying for an online visa application. The code is valid for three months if during this time the application for a visa will not be formed, the test need to go back and get a new code.
Next, you should prepare the relevant documents:
- Fill the visa form and save it in PDF format (Print and not required),
- Save in PDF, Doc or Docx format confirmation of hotels and air tickets (if these documents are not issued in electronic form, they must be scanned),
- Occan the photo,
- Occasion documents submitted to supporting a visa application, certificate from the place of work, banking certificate, etc., as well as translations attached to documents in Russian.
The size of each file should not exceed 4 MB, documents are accepted in the following formats: for documents - PDF, DOC or DOCX, for images - JPG, TIFF, PNG.
The next step is to get an electronic access key for safe login. To do this, you need to register an account on the website of the Ministry of Citizenship and Migration of Canada in the E-Services section.
After registration, you can proceed to the formation of a visa request in accordance with the step-by-step instructions of the system. After downloading all the necessary documents, you need to pay for the visa collection using a bank card (Visa, MasterCard is accepted for payment).
After payment of the collection, the application will be automatically sent to the SIC, and the applicant will receive an email address specified when registering, confirmation of the application that needs to be printed.
When the application is reviewed and the decision will be made on it, the applicant will receive an appropriate letter. If the solution is positive, then within a month from the moment of the notice it is necessary to provide the original passport to the consular hotels for incuring the visa sticker. The passport can be provided personally or through the courier delivery service PONY EXPRESS (referring to this company, it is necessary to clarify that the courier, not visa services), or through the visa centers of Canada to the Russian Federation (cost of the service 834 rubles).
Submission of applications through visa centers
Reception of documents in Canada's visa centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk is carried out from Monday to Friday, from 09.00 to 16.00. The possibility of preliminary recording on the reception in the VTS exists only in Moscow (is not mandatory). Recording is carried out around the clock online on the visa site website
When submitting an application through the HC, it is necessary to provide the original passport, as well as a complete package of documents and signed by the applicant, consent to the processing of personal data (the form is necessarily attached and in the case of personal submission of documents, and in the case when the documents are sent by the courier delivery service).
Applications in visa centers can be submitted personally or send by courier post (in this case, applications are sent only to the visa center in Moscow). At the same time, the visa and service fees must be paid in advance, as well as an additional charge for the return delivery of the passport (receipt to attach to the shared package of documents). Details for payment are indicated on the website of the MC.
If you want to come to Canada for a short period of time, usually up to 6 months, you need to get a temporary resident visa (Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) . In this category there are different types of visas depending on the purpose of your trip to Canada. One of these species - visitor visa (Visitor Visa) or tourist visa (Tourist Visa).
In this article, consider in detail what a tourist visa is and how to get it.
What is a tourist visa to Canada?
Tourist visa is one of the species of a temporary vessel. It allows you to come to Canada with such goals:
Journey;
a visit to the family.
With a tourist visa, you can come to the point of entry to Canada and ask for permission to stop the border. Employees of the National Border and Customs Service (CANADIAN BORDER PATROL ) Decide, whether to let you go to the territory of Canada, depending on your documents and the situation. If you have a visa and border guards made sure that you have no criminal intentions, then you will pass customs control and you can start a journey or family visit to Canada.
With such a visa you can travel through Canada to 6 months, if it allows your financial position. Visa visitor does not give you the right to get Canadian documents and stay in the country forever. In addition, you will not be able to learn and work in Canada, as well as enjoy health care and other privileges of citizens and permanent residents of Canada.
How to apply for a tourist visa to Canada?
Most travelers to enter Canada will have to receive a visa, although there are countries whose citizens need only an electronic permission to travel ( Electronic Travel AUTHORIZATION (ETA) . And there are countries, whose citizens can enter Canada simply in their passport, without a visa.
Requirements and documents for receiving a tourist visa to Canada
To be eligible for a tourist visa to Canada, the applicant must meet a number of requirements. These requirements determine whether a person can get a visitor visa and use it. Here is a list of general requirements for a tourist visa:
You must have a minimum of 18 to become the main applicant. Your minor children (under 18 years old) cannot submit an application on their own;
You must have a valid state passport with at least one empty page, which is not the last page of the passport;
You must translate and assure all your available documents in any language, except English or French;
You should not have a criminal record, and you must provide a confirmation of this document;
You must payrequired fees for the processing of the application and registration of a visa to Canada;
You must sign and put a date on documents that require;
You must fill out and sign the consent form in the visa center (VISA Application Center (VAC);
You must provide copies of documents on your current immigration status in another country or in Canada;
You must have enough money to pay stay in Canada;
You must be prepared to pass an interview and, if necessary, provide biometric information.
You must be ready to pass a medical examination if the Embassy of Canada needs it. For a tourist visa, a survey is usually not needed, except when the applicant has a disease that the embassy needs to know;
You must confirm that your stay in Canada will be temporary and you will return to your country as soon as the journey is over;
You must confirm that you do not plan to learn or work in Canada.
If you do not satisfy these requirements, the Canadian Embassy will require additional information from you and will provide an opportunity to provide other documents to make a decision regarding your case.
If you absolutely cannot prove that you have the right to receive a tourist visa, the application will be rejected due to your inadmissibility in Canada. If you were admitted unacceptable, you can get into the country only on the visa of a temporary resident.
How to apply for a tourist visa?
Apply for a visitor's visa takes place in several stages.
Confirm your right to open a visa
To get this type of temporary resident visa, you need to confirm that you meet all the requirements published onthe website of the Government of Canada . Go to the site, click on the buttonImmigration and then on Visit . You will see a link"Find Out if You Need a Visa". Scroll through this link and answer the proposed questions.
The result of the survey will show if you have the right to receive a visitor visa. In addition, further instructions will be launched on the screen and your personal code (Reference Code), which you use at the following stages of submission.
Create Account
Save your personal code and register on the same Government of Canada website. You can open an account using your bank account data or via login and password (GCKEY) on the site. After registration, you can proceed to filling out the application form.
Apply and Documents
Use your personal code to access your answers and forms that you want to fill. You will need to fill out two main forms:
Proof of related links, if you are traveling to the family;
Immigration status of your family or friends, if you drive to some of them;
Bank statement of a member of your family or friend you visit;
Declaration letter from you by the Government of Canada, in which you explain why you have to open a visa;
2 photos corresponding to the requirements (Canada Photo Requirements);
Help with work or studies, as well as a letter from your employer that you have a contractual obligations that you must fulfill, and therefore you must return to your country;
Other documents confirming that you will return to your country, such as rental agreement, property contract, etc.
After you attached all documents, you can apply. Then you need to pay for the processing of documents, and your application will be considered completed.
Wait for document processing and provide additional information.
The application will appear in your profile about five days after the filing. The following few weeks, the Canadian Embassy will handle documents. If it is necessary, you will be invited to an interview or will be asked to provide biometric information.
If it happens, you must come to an interview at the appointed time and honestly answer all the questions.
Pass the passport to the Embassy for Print Visa
As soon as you open a visa, you will receive a notice at the Canadian government's profile, or the embassy staff will tell you about it at the end of the interview. In any case, you will need to pass the passport to the embassy so that you are printed in it.
If you can't bring a passport to the embassy, \u200b\u200byou will need to send it by mail along with the payment for processing documents and the reverse shipment fee. If you learned about the opening of a visa in the embassy, \u200b\u200byou can leave a passport there and pay the collection at the checkout.
Embassy staff will print in a passport and return it to you. From now on you can prepare for traveling and go to Canada.
How much is a tourist visa to Canada?
Application for a tourist visa costs CAD $ 100. If you have to take biometric data, you will pay more CAD $ 85. In general, fees for obtaining a visa will be CAD $ 185.
In addition, it will be necessary to pay for the collection of passport processing in the amount of CAD $ 45.
How quickly give a tourist visa to Canada?
Processing documents for visitor receipt of a visitor takes different times depending on the country in which you live. Typically, a visa is issued for 8-40 days. On average, the waiting time is about a month.
How much give a tourist visa to Canada?
The Canadian Embassy solves your stay in Canada on a tourist visa n individually for each applicant, taking into account its situation. The visa can only be valid for your travel, and maybe before the expiration of the passport. It all depends on how convincing you were in the arguments, which will come back to your country.
Regardless of the term of your tourist visa, you can not be with it in Canada longer than six months at a time. That is, after six months, you must return to your country, to stay there for some time, after which you can go to Canada again for 6 months.
Can your relatives pass to Canada on a tourist visa?
Members of your family, for example, spouse (a) and minor children can come with you to Canada on visa visa. However, they must submit separate applications and pay all the fees separately. So that your documents are processed at the same time, you must submit them to a visa center or online all together as a family.
To start registration visa, electronic copies of documents in PDF format must be sent to the address. When the documents are received, our manager will check them and create an order, which is notified to your e-mail. We ask you to take into account that the visa design begins only after payment of the order.
Pay for the order
You must pay the order before the start of paperwork, in rubles at the rate at the date of receipt of documents. Payment can be made in cash. If you send documents to us by courier services, check about the possibilities of remote payment from the manager.
Take fingerprints
Next, we will prepare and upload copies of your documents to the created personal account on the Consulate website of Canada, as well as pay consular fees. After the required period of design (usually a week), the consulate will allow fingerprints. Then you need from the original passport to come to the visa center in a convenient day and the time of the day of the fingerprint.
Address of the visa center Canada: Moscow, Kashirskoye Highway, House 3, Corpus 2, Building 4, opening hours: 09-00 - 16-00.
Pass the passport
After putting fingerprints, the consulate will continue to consider documents for a visa (usually 2 weeks). According to the results of the consideration of the documents, the visa center will send a notice, then you need to give us a passport for intoxicating visas (passport can be transferred in advance after the fingerprints). We ourselves will take your passport to the visa center and get it with an inclined visa (usually for 1-5 business days).
Get documents
You will receive an SMS notice from "Kalinki Service" and / or e-mail-notice of the receipt of documents for issuing. This means that the passport with a visa can be obtained from our office.
You can pick up documents in the office or through your representative. To obtain documents in the office, you need to call the country of destination and the name of all tourists.
You can order the courier service for the fence of our documents (Major Express, Courier-Service Express, Daimex, Dekk, DHL or Other). To do this, contact the courier service in your city so that they in Moscow take the documents in our company and delivered them to you. The representative of the courier service should also call the country of destination and the name of all tourists.
Our address: 125009, Moscow, ul. Tverskaya, d. 20, office 301, OOO "Kalinka Service", + 7495-228-0807.
We ask you to consider that the issuance of documents is made in the absence of debt on request.