Hello Everyone!
Do you know what a visa is for?
In order to enter Canada, to physically step on to Canadian soil, you have to have a permission from the Canadian government unless you are a Canadian Citizen. That permission is the VISA on your passport!
Why are you coming to Canada?
Are you planning to permanently move to Canada?
Or, are you planning to temporarily stay in Canada to work, to study or to visit relatives or to travel?
Based on the above listed purpose of entry, you have to apply for a proper immigration visa or temporary resident visa.
However, every visa program has it’s own program requirements and you have to prove that you’ve met all the program requirements. For example, if you want to enter Canada to tour Niagara falls in Ontario, you must show that you have sufficient funds to spend in Canada while traveling and you must show your social ties to your home country, so the officer can be sure that you will leave Canada.
Remember, a visa is a permission to physically step into Canada, but you still have to get a permit at the port of entry into Canada!
Daniel Y. Won
Immigration Practitioner/ Columnist
Professor of Immigration Law (IRPA)
First video of Daniel’s Canadian Immigration lecture series!
Dear Readers,
We have an exciting news. Our client, Ms. SJ is finally submitting her original passport to get an immigration visa! Congratulations!
She filed her PR application through Federal Skilled Worker program in June 2009. Unfortunately, the regulations related to the Federal Skilled Worker program have been changed several time, which delayed overall FSW application process. Maybe that’s why? Her application was originally submitted to the Canadian Visa Office in Buffalo, NY but it was transferred to Seattle Visa Office, and, unlikely other cases, she was the only client who was called for a personal interview at the visa office in Seattle.
She broke our office records taking the most processing time for the FSW immigration application process, about 20 months! But, Guess what! She got it!
I will take her picture and post it to the blog when she receives her Landing paper and PR visa.
Yesterday, we received lots of approvals and medical exam requests. One of them is the case I’m going to introduce you. As you can see the title of this posting, this case is extension of visitor status. We submitted the application on October 28, 2010 and it was approved on March 08, 2011. It took 131 days for Immigration Canada to issue the Visa document. I don’t know why it takes getting longer to get processed. We shouldn’t pay them for this slow process. Don’t you agree?
Anyway, let’s congratulate our client MSJ in her approval We are happy to inform you about the approval and see you soon for your Sponsorship application.
We received another approval for a Work Permit from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. After receiving a positive LMO from Service Canada, the Work Permit application was submitted online on January 21, 2011 and it was approved on March 15, 2011. We waited a bit less than 2 months, much faster than submitting by mailing.
The main applicant included her two children in the Work Permit application for their Visitor Records and they were all approved without any issues.
Congratulations, Ms. J E L and let’s wait for the approval of your PR application!
