IMMIGRATION SERVICES
Visitor Visas & eTAs
Visit Canada, or stay longer, with an application that gives you the best possible chance of approval.
Visit Canada with Confidence
Visitor visa refusals are frustratingly common: officers refuse applications every day over doubts about the purpose of the visit, ties to home, or finances. As a Vancouver-based Canadian immigration lawyer, I prepare Temporary Resident Visa and eTA applications that present your visit clearly and persuasively, and I fix refused applications with targeted reapplication strategies.
I also help families keep parents and grandparents in Canada longer through the super visa program, and help visitors already in Canada extend or restore their status lawfully.
Ways to visit
Visitor visas, super visas and eTAs
How you enter Canada as a visitor, and how long you can stay, depends on your nationality, your purpose and your history. Three tools cover most situations.
Most common
Visitor visas (TRV)
For nationals of visa-required countries: tourism, family visits and business trips, where refusals are common and preparation is everything.
- Tourism & family-visit applications
- Business visitor entries
- Refusal analysis & reapplication
Super visas
For parents and grandparents of citizens and PRs: multi-year stays without renewals, built around an income requirement and mandatory insurance.
- Income requirements & who counts
- Medical insurance requirements
- Stays of several years per entry
eTAs, extensions & records
Visa-exempt travellers need an eTA, and every visitor who wants to stay longer needs a visitor record filed before status expires, or restoration after.
- Electronic Travel Authorizations
- Visitor records to extend your stay
- Dual intent: visiting while PR is pending
Visitor Visa Services
Coming to Canada
- Temporary Resident Visas (TRV)
- Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)
- Business visitor applications
- Super visas for parents & grandparents
- Dual intent applications
While You’re in Canada
- Visitor record extensions
- Restoration of status
- Refused visitor visas, reapplication strategy
- Invitation letters & host documentation
- Family visit applications
What decides it
What officers weigh on visitor applications
Visitor refusals almost always come down to one question: will this person leave when required? A strong file answers it four ways:
- Ties to your home country, work, property, family, obligations
- A clear, credible purpose with a defined timeline
- Funds consistent with the trip you describe
- Travel and immigration history, and honest handling of past refusals
Good to know
Visitor visa questions, answered
Most refusals cite doubts that you’d leave Canada, weak ties, unclear purpose, or insufficient funds. Reapplying with the same file usually earns the same answer; the refusal reasons need to be addressed with new evidence.
Typically up to six months per entry, but the officer can grant less. If you want to stay longer, apply for a visitor record before your status expires, not after.
Sponsorship makes parents permanent residents but depends on receiving an invitation; the super visa is available year-round and allows multi-year visits, with an income requirement and mandatory insurance. Many families use the super visa while waiting on the PGP.
Often yes. Canadian law recognizes dual intent. But you must satisfy the officer you’ll respect your temporary status regardless of the PR outcome, which takes deliberate evidence.
You may have a 90-day window to apply for restoration of status, after that, options narrow sharply. Act quickly and get advice before filing anything.
Planning a visit to Canada?
Tell me who’s coming and why, and I’ll prepare an application that gives the officer every reason to say yes.