Requirements, documents and how to request the visa to Canada

Welcome to the tutorial on CóMo request one tourist visa a Canadaá and alsoén detailed all the steps, documents and requirements that need to achieve it.

Canadaá is one of the PAíses más calm to travel, but that alsoén since Sudanérica is one of those who see más distant by a trámite, have a visa, since yesólo Chile Eastá exempt from that requirement.

With this particularity, If your plans are traveling to Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or wherever you want in this beautiful país, I have thought about this complete tutorial, Maybe you see it long, But believe me it's más fácyl to do it for the Visa to the United States.

Requirements and cómo request the visa to Canadá

Before starting, I recommend you have the following documents at hand:

• Valid passport.
• United States visa if you have it.
• Past passport where you have a Canadian visa issued less than 10 años.
• Céidentity question.
• Marriage certificate.

With that at hand, Let's start the tutorial step by step, You can do it tú without problems and without the need for help or pay for this:

1. They must create an account on the IRCC portal in this link: https://ircc.canada.ca/visit-visiter/en/get-account-ircc-portal
2. In the link above dutyán enter your email and getá a CóI say invitationón, which dutyán Enter the Páregistration.
   1. Hereí ask youán your name, email, create a key and  númere telephoneónico.
3. I getá An email with a CóI say activationón of the IRCC account that mustán enter the Página anterior.
   1. Once the C is enteredóI say correct, couldáS now sí Enter the portal.
4. Once inside, make scroll to the sectionón what says: Start an application and click on the link that says Apply to visit, study or work in Canada as a temporary resident.
5. Select if they apply for the visa as a group or only.
6. Select the type of visa you will request, For this exercise, I will do ité For a tourism or visitor visa.
7. Select the reason why they need that type of selected visa. In my case:  To visit Canada as a tourist
   1. Hereí dutyás Include in 470 characters your travel plans with what they doás and the dates of your entry and exit visit.
8. Select if youás making the applicationón on behalf of someone más.
9. InformationóTraveler n: hereí dutyás put all your names, Date of birth and gender.
10. Enter the travel document data, In this case passport detailing Número, EMISI Dateón, expiration and answer the questions if they have a valid visa for the United States.
11. Citizenía: Answer the questions indicated about your nationality, place of birth and if you have another nationality.
12. Céidentity question: Enter your C dataéidentity question.
13. Informationócontact number: Enter your addressón current where you live and the data from your current place of residence.
14. A BROMéTricos: The system aská If you have biom dataéTricos previously entered in case you asked Canad before a visaá, otherwise, dutyás register them.
15. Ingress withánto money will haveás to cover your expenses in Canadá.
16. Informationón professional: They are going to ask you all your university studies, with end start date, University and even the directionón of dóYou studied.
17. Informationówork number: dutyáS Enter all your work on úlast 10 años, detailing functions in 100 characters, Starting dates, End and your current work (important).
18. Travel history: tenderás to enter all the trips you have made in the úlast 5 añyou with start and end of travel dates like the cities you visited.
    1. Spaghettién dutyáS Answer if you extended the visit to Canadá previously outside the legal term or if you have rejected any visa before.
19. Informationón criminal: Honestly answer the indicated questions.
20. History métip: Answer the question about diseases, vaccinations and other sí o no.
21. Informationón familiar: answer each of the questions about your family state, As if you have family or if you areáS marriedún each personal case.
22. Ask youán también qué Language you speak as a native and in whaté Language wants to be the communicationón (francés o inglés).
23. Informationócontact number: Enter your email and núTel mereéphone.
24. tenderás The opportunity to review and edit informationón admitted in each and each of the sections.

Once this was done, The second is coming and Más important part of the process, The upload of the files required for visa order processing:

• Scanned files should not weigh más de 2 Megas;
• and JPG formats are accepted, png, doc y pdf.

With the necessary documents ready, dutyáS UP:

Once the archives have been uploaded and the consent and declaration acceptedódata n, couldás continue to the third part of the process, which is the payment of the FEE for the Consular Service of Can $ 100.  Hereí dutyás make payment úonly with CR cardséhere, With those of Ecuador I had no problems and the payment is immediate.

Once paid in my case Can185 for the taking of BioméTricos, I getá and the email informationón of the start of the process.

¿CóMo is the Biom RegistrationéTricos?

In the case of Ecuador, There is no embassy thatí, So Biom takingéTricos is done in a reliable company by Canadá which is located in the El Bosque sector in the north of Quito, which does not take más de 15 minutes.

This process doesán first, Taking an appointment at the Página web del Visa Application Centre, To know the place Más cercano a ti, You can use the search engine in this Página: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/biometrics/where-to-give.html

Once the place M is locatedás they seek, couldán Make the reservation of the appointment following the instructions of each of the available places.

Thoseí, Once the Biom Fee is paidéTrico will haveás máximo 30 díAs to perform the Biom Tomasétricks, otherwise, loseás money and dutyás start the whole process again.

When you do this process you getá An email confirmed the taking of the bioméTrico and alsoén, The IRCC website is updatedá With the date of this process.

¿CuáIn the time, take the approved or not the visa?

In this particular case, the process tomó exactly 6 months and a half From admitted the TRámite until it arrivedó The emailónico indicating that the visa hadíhas been approved and it was time to send the passport to Bogotaá.

Ok hereí indicate CóMo follows the visa process once the biom has been takenéTricos:

1. After receiving confirmationón of the biom data collectionéTricos, The wait begins, what monúN CADA CASE PODROíto require that in the middle the consulate you ask you más Documents that verify your travel intentions.
2. If your visa is approved or not, I getá an email that says «A message about you application is waiting for you». This means that you enter your IRCC account to review the messages in your Buzón.
3. If the answer is positive, meetás a message in the Buzón what says: Original Passport Request.
   1. DutyáS Open this message and print the PDF in which the instructions to send the passport are indicated.
4. Spaghettién, for joyíto all, On the IRCC see websiteás this message: Final decision: Your application was approved. You need to send us your valid passport to finalize your application.
5. In the notificationón seeás what you need to send:
   1. Provide your passport or travel document, along with a copy of the PDF that indicates themé
   2. Your passport must have at least one PáGina blank.
   3. Your passport must be VáLido during per períODO OF YOUR STAKEía planned in Canadá.
   4. Keep in mind that you could notán Issue a visa afterés of the expiration date that appears in the passport.
6. Those documents and the passport dutyás Go to leave them at the Vac de Quito office itself where you did the biométrico
   1. You can consult hereí más details: https://visa.vfsglobal.com/ecu/en/can/
7. After leaving the passport, should beá Wait for this to return from Bogotá, The same can be monitored with a CóI say and instructions to give youán.
8. Sayún the service hired, The passport arriveá To your home or dutyás Go to withdraw it in the offices of the VAC in Quito with the requests requested.
9. ¡Have a good trip!

On average and depending on the PAís, is trámite taking 30 a 60 días (Ecuador the average is 130 días), But until I went backó The passport in my case with the visa printed from Colombia, passed by 7 Exact months.

Así who considers this time to plan your trip, Sure, couldíto vary in each case, But in the míor in particular, This was reality and the TRáfull mite including shippingíor from the passport to the consulate to Bogotá which was included in the value canceled, tomó 210 días.

All notifications of Decisión of the approvesón o no, envíor passport, Additional and dem -requirementsás, to beá por vía electróunique and there is no direct way to contact the Canad Embassyá on Bogotaá.

Prices

Prices for this service are:

• Visa: CAN$100 o $73 dóamerican lares.
  • These prices include shippingíor from passport abroad if necessary.

If you must make the Biom RegistryéTrico This has an additional value of Can $ 85.

REQUIREMENTS TO REQUEST THE VISA TO CANADá

The requirements or documents MíThey are necessary:

• A passport or travel document Válido.
  • Must have at least 1 páFree Gina where we can paste your visitor visa.
• You may need other documents depending on CóMO Answer the request questions.
• Informationón that you must enter: Personal data, Travel document details, Finance, Educational history, CRIMINALITY AND SECURITY, The antecedent médicos, Informationón familiar.

¿Cuál is the validity or cuánto lasts the visa to canadá?

This is a great question and the answer is: it depends.

This varíthe assistantún the expiration date of the passport, Then said that, If your passport is valid for 1 añO, THE VISA TO CANADá to beá of an añO, while your passport has 10 añValid, YOUR VISA TO CANADá spaná That time.

An additional tip, If you have the visa a USA of tourist, tenderás a great point in your favor to get this visa, otherwise, The same couldáTo do so if you meet the previously indicated requirements.

Any additional questions that have, Enchanted to help them.