Instructions for applying for a visa to Canada online

Applying for a tourist visa to Canada

The consular office provides the opportunity to obtain a visa to Canada virtually . Another model of potential actions is to independently submit a request through the Canada visa center in Moscow or in another region of the Russian Federation.

• We provide professional services for issuing Canadian visas to Russians, taking into account all the requirements of the visa regime.

The obtaining procedure consists of the following steps

1. Submitting an application;
2. Payment of the consular fee;
3. Preparation of documents;
4. Translation of documents
5. Filling out the form;
6. Personal visit to the Canadian Exhibition Center for an interview.

Canada is a country with a significant level of ecology, development and culture.

• There are no special architectural attractions here, but the natural landscapes outshine the splendor of the buildings of the old cities of Europe.

Tourist visa to Canada

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• Consultations with a visa specialist are held Mon-Fri, from 9:00 to 18:00

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Applying for a visa to Canada

I open the link https://www.cic.gc.ca/ctc-vac/getting-started.asp - I need the system to determine what category of Canadian visa I need (although even without it I know that I need a tourist visa).

But the main thing in passing the test is that at the end of it I will receive my personal code , and it will be useful to me in the future. The questionnaire test is very banal and can be filled out by anyone without prompting.

I won’t give many screenshots, but here is the first one - from which it is clear that I need a Canadian visa to visit Canada. I knew this even without the questionnaire.

At the end of the ten-page survey, you will see on the screen your personal checklist code of the form XX1111111111 Write it down or print a page with it as you will need it later when filling out the application for a visa to Canada IMM5257

Cost of a visa to Canada

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Applying for a tourist visa to Canada

Tourists come here to ski, go mountain climbing, and get acquainted with Western culture. The main obstacle on the way from Russia to Canada is obtaining an entry permit or tourist visa.

Despite the increasing number of quotas for specialists , the number of illegal migrants to Canada is growing. In view of this, authorized officials at the embassy or visa and migration department consider each applicant as a potential illegal immigrant.

• The tourist must collect not only documents indicating his financial stability and safety for Westerners, but also indicating the existence of significant reasons for returning to his homeland.

Applying for a tourist visa to Canada on your own requires native knowledge of one of the local official languages.

• The applicant must have a deposit in a bank; if a visa is requested for subsequent receipt of a residence permit, the deposit should be opened immediately in a Canadian bank.
• In order not to miss the details of the procedure and increase the likelihood of approval, you should contact an accredited visa center, where for a small additional payment all burdens will be removed from you.

Employees themselves collect documents, translate them and apply notary stamps. The service includes support for taking biometrics and to the embassy for an interview. The cost of a full service and a limited set of services can be found on the website.

Tourist visa to Canada for Russians - list of documents

Even if your visit abroad does not take you more than 1 week, you need to pay special attention to the list of papers that you submit to the embassy for study.

The basis for submission is:

1. Applicant's questionnaire
   . It consists of three parts - the first contains information about the applicant himself, the second serves to transmit extended data about the applicant, the third is needed to reflect family status - information about immediate relatives and spouses is entered here.
2. The photo
   is placed in the envelope immediately after the questionnaire. Two photographs are needed to be attached to the tourist’s personal file and pasted into the visa. Photos must be identical, their size is 35*45 mm. It is prohibited to be photographed wearing glasses with black lenses, bright lipstick, or provocative clothing or pose. Facial expression should be neutral, gaze directed towards the camera. The photo is in color and is taken against a light background.
3. Foreign and domestic passports
   . Certified and translated copies are suitable for the package. The original passport must be submitted after the application is approved. If you have old foreign passports that reflect the history of your travels around the world, it’s worth adding their originals. Special attention is paid to the expiration dates of documents.
4. Financial documentation
   varies depending on the type of counterparty requesting a Canadian tourist visa. Individuals provide a certificate from their workplace indicating the level of wages. For a legal entity, it is necessary to collect the statutory documents of its company, as well as extracts from the tax office confirming the absence of fines. A tourist visa to Canada for the unemployed, pensioners and students is issued with the involvement of a sponsor.
5. Medical insurance
   with a minimum coverage of services – 30 thousand US dollars. The document can only be completed at an accredited center; a leaflet from a dubious institution will not be accepted by embassy staff.
6. Receipt for payment
   for consideration of a package of documents. The visa fee is waived only for children under 6 years of age and socially vulnerable groups traveling to Canada to obtain refugee status. The rest pay about 4,500 thousand rubles for the details indicated on the official website of the consulate.
7. Tourist set
   . This documentation includes: an itinerary sheet - drawn up by hand, signed by the applicant, listing the places and attractions that the tourist plans to visit; voucher - a certificate of reservation of housing in a hotel or with another tenant through a realtor; copies of air tickets indicating the exact date of the traveler's return home.

A tourist visa to Canada for Russians allows up to 180 days abroad without leaving. Most often, the period of its validity is limited by consulate employees based on the arrival and departure dates indicated on the tickets.

There is usually no point in creating a multiple visa - Canada does not belong to the Schengen zone, so its entry permit does not give the right to visit Europe or America.

If you live in the CIS countries, but are a citizen of one of the Baltic countries, you will have a simplified visa regime if you need to visit Canada. For more information about the entry procedure and the set of documents, please contact the experts at our visa center.

How to get a tourist visa to Canada on your own

Independently obtaining an entry permit involves completing all procedures except handing over the package to the embassy. This is done by visa center specialists. They will first check that the documents are filled out correctly and arrange them in the correct order. A service fee is charged for services.

Open the website https://www.canadainternational.gc.ca (the official portal of the Canadian Consulate) and follow these steps to create a personal account:

1. Answer a few questions in English to determine the type of visa required to enter the country.
2. Receive an individual number that will accompany you in the system. Next, this code must be indicated in the application form IMM 5257.
3. Fill out the applicant form. All questions and answers must be in the state language. The procedure is simplified by the fact that a number of questions have ready-made answer options, just like in testing. The virtual form must be saved to your computer.
4. After submitting the application form to the system, the user receives a GGKey, which gives the right to register on the site.
5. Now you can create a personal account. After logging into your account, you will need to re-enter your identification number and verification question and answer.

The activation period for your personal account is 2 months

. In the future, it will be closed and automatically deleted from the system. Within the specified period, you must upload all the documents listed above to your account. The photo is attached in electronic format, but without processing in photo editors.

• Images and documents in docx, jpeg and pdf formats are accepted. All copies must be in color - use a scanner for this, not a regular copier.

Submitting a Canadian visa application

My second step:

After the test, I go to the link https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/e-services/mycic.asp - to the page where I need to register and get a GCKey , this is my account (my case) in the Canadian visa system.

I click the button circled in the screenshot above and get to the registration form, with which the first problems arise. Note: everything on the site is written in Latin

The first problem arose with the nickname because the one I originally wrote turned out to be less than 8 characters.

This turned out to be the case when trying to submit an already completed form, so pay attention to the site’s tips and mine, made in red font. Otherwise you will have to fill out everything again.

After accepting your username and password, the system will prompt you to create security questions and answers. Important! : write questions and answers in Latin letters. And don't forget the answers!

For example, the question: Moy avtomobil - Answer: zhiga, Question: Moy kot - Answer: murka and so on.

Having a) GCKey registration and b) the personal code received in step 1 of this article, I log in using my chosen username and password. And I’m answering the security question that I created along with the answer to it when registering my account.

I enter my personal code again and get to a page where it is explained that I have 60 days to collect and prepare documents for a Canadian visa. I must attach documents in pdf, jpeg or docx format weighing no more than 4M.

I wrote separately about the documents: documents for a visa to Canada.

Note : There is no need to sign or print the completed IMM5257 ! After filling it out on your computer, save it on your computer, and then use the Upload button to upload it to your account.

List of documents that can be loaded into your case from a computer in pdf, jpeg or docx formats. These are a couple of forms (links to them), as well as accompanying documents required to obtain a Canadian visa:

Tourist visa to Canada - validity and consideration periods

There is no specific document that regulates the timing and procedure for reviewing documentation. The user has to rely only on statistical data posted on the official website of the Canadian Embassy.

Statistics say that the minimum processing time for an application for a tourist visa to Canada from Russia is 10 working days.

It is possible to process it in one working day, but the request is submitted urgently, and the amount of the consular fee increases. The applicant must also provide evidence of urgency.

The maximum period for reviewing documents was 2 years . To be fair, it is worth noting that this was an extensive package of papers for a large company. In order not to miss departure dates, documentation should be submitted 4-6 weeks before the tourist’s departure from Russia.

• Additionally, you should use the services of specialists from an accredited visa center, whose tasks include checking that the documentation package meets the necessary requirements.

It is stated above that the validity period of a tourist visa to Canada depends on the dates specified on the air tickets. If the tourist does not know his departure date for his home country, a single entry permit is issued with a maximum validity of 180 days.

Multiple visas valid for 5 to 10 years are issued only upon request:

1. business,
2. working,
3. student visa.

Canada Visa Application Centers in Russia

Moscow - 127018, Moscow, st. Suschevsky Val, 31/1. Novosibirsk - 630132, Novosibirsk, Sibirskaya st., 57. Rostov-on-Don - 344065, Rostov-on-Don, Trolleybusnaya st., 24/2, 2nd floor. St. Petersburg - 197110, St. Petersburg, Chkalovsky Prospekt, 7, mezzanine floor. Vladivostok - 690091, Vladivostok, Okeansky prospect, 17, 6th floor, office 601. Ekaterinburg - 620026, Ekaterinburg, Kuibysheva st., 44, business hotel "Panorama". (Entrance from Belinsky Street).

Applications are accepted and passports are issued: from 09.00 to 16.00 | Monday Friday.

Obtaining a tourist visa to Canada - cost

• Payment of the consular fee
  for the standard procedure for submitting documentation is 100 Canadian dollars. If you need to obtain an urgent tourist visa to Canada, the visa fee increases to 200 units of foreign currency. The Canadian Embassy website only accepts money in dollars. If you pay for a transaction using a Russian ruble card, the conversion will occur automatically at the internal embassy rate. In rubles, the visa fee for a tourist entry permit is about 4,500.
• The service fee
  is paid in any case, regardless of whether you collected the documents yourself or contacted the staff of an accredited visa center from the very beginning. The service fee is approximately 40 Canadian dollars. All services, such as courier, translation, notary, are paid separately. Before contacting the visa center, you need to clarify the existing tariffs in advance and find out the total cost of the specialists’ work.
• When applying for a tourist visa to Canada on your own, the client needs to pay for the services of the logistics company Pony Express
  . When the visa is ready, your passport will be sent from the embassy through the services of this particular company.
• Additional cost items include obtaining health insurance
  . Depending on the center where the examination is planned, the amount ranges from 300 rubles to several thousand.

Due to significant expenses already at the stage of preparation for the trip, Canadian Embassy employees usually do not consider applicants with a salary below 45,000 rubles.

According to Western social standards, at least 70 US dollars should be spent on maintaining 1 person per day, including food and housing. The total amount to pay for the trip should be transferred to the card in advance, since cash above $10,000 must be declared at the border.

Canada visa deadlines

After sending the documents you will have to wait approximately 2 weeks. A notification that your visa has been approved comes to your email in the form of a short message from the reference Your application(xxxxxxxxxx) has been updated.

Inside the letter there will be the following text: Your application has been updated. Please sign in to your MyCIC account and check your application status and messages for more information.

Right in this letter you can click on the MyCIC , then enter your username and password, then click “I accept” several times and answer the security question that you created during registration. After all this, you see a page and a table with messages at the bottom.

The first message is that your case has been opened and is being studied. The second message is a letter that needs to be printed and taken to the Canada Visa Application Center along with your passport - they will forward your passport to the embassy for a visa to be affixed.

That's all. If something is not clear, go to the Vinsky Forum in the FAQ topic on a visa to Canada - everything is detailed there and even more than written and drawn.

Tourist visa to Canada - probability of refusal

The category of persons “non grata” includes people who do not have sufficient financial security, have previously been convicted or have been refused a Schengen visa or permission to enter the United States.

Difficulties also arise when trying to obtain a tourist visa for the unemployed: a salary certificate can be replaced with a letter from a sponsor, but if an unemployed person does not have a family or expensive real estate, he has no reason to return to the Russian Federation.

To get a tourist visa to Canada with a 100% guarantee of approval and not spoil your visa reputation, contact the specialists of the Unified Visa Center. For a small fee, experts can issue you a visa in 1 day without refusal.

The procedure is carried out legally, the activities of employees are carried out in accordance with Russian legislation.

Canada Visa Update 2019

1) The consular fee for a visa to Canada is now 100 Canadian dollars.

2) From July 31, 2021, applicants for a visa to Canada must submit biometric data: fingerprints and a digital photo. This can be done at the Canada visa center closest to you: Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok. Bring your passport and letter from IRCC with you.

3) Those who apply for a Canadian visa not online and have a valid US visa, or a trip to Canada on a previous visa, do not need to submit financial documents .

About this news in a separate topic: Visa to Canada news 2019