Formalities and rules of entry into Canada: personal experience
Despite the vigorous process and the closed site of the Canadian migration service, independently received a Canadian visa. Thanks to the Vine’s site – everything is laid out on the shelves and worn – even idiot is clear. But still the website of the Canadian migration service is just horror. Anyway, but a visa was given for a period to the end of the passport – until 2027 (9 years. ). Would give 10, but they do not give for a period longer than the passport action. In addition to the passport and photo, I also sent a hotel reservation and an extract from the bank with the movement of funds for the previous 6 months. I thought it would need a bunch of references, in T.C. from the employer, but no longer needed, apparently due to the existing American visa. Otherwise, I suppose I would have to have a bunch of documents to provide. All documents (except for the passport) sent on the same site in PDF format, photo in JPEG, T.E. All in electronic form – no paper. In a couple of days to email.An invitation came to appear in any of the Canadian visa centers for biometrics. I chose Alma-Atu, t.To. There are no Canadian visa center in Russia in Novosibirsk, but only in Moscow time, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok. I decided that faster and cheaper will go to sleep in Almaty. So did. Delov turned out for 30 minutes. Came to the visa center in Alma-Ata, he heard the instruction of the employee, in a special room passed the prints and photographed. Waited to wait for the Westa from Canadians.
Multivisa for 8 years in 3 days
Getting a Canadian visa
Independent receipt of a visa at an invitation for 2 days!
There is nothing impossible in getting a visa on its own and at the invitation!
November 6 passed documents to the visa center, on November 7, they laid a visa (the tour, one-time – as he asked), on November 8, the treated passport from the embassy was sent back to the visa center. Everything! Tour visa for half a year is ready!
What they were doing:
– Filled questionnaires (there is on the site)
– 2 photos according to the requirements
– They received invitations from sports organizations in Canada (we are going to play sports)
– received a letter in English from their sports section in Moscow
– Took a certificate from work my work (translated from the translation agency)
– collected help from work (translated into English to the Bureau)
– Took an extract from the bank (immediately in English)
– Marriage certificate, certificate from the work of the husband (everything translated into English to the Bureau), took a copy of his first page
– wrote a motivational letter why I want to go why play sports exactly there, pointed out my other travels (that while traveling I am always sport-active, even in Egypt) – what really is.
Despite the fact that it was done by everything, at the invitation (signed men) – a visa was given without questions and problems! What do you want!
Total expenses:
– Translation bypassed in area 1000
– Photo 250
– Visa fees, duties and t.NS. 3392 (they did not download those profiles from the site and had to redo it in place, and this is also a money)
– Insurance for 20 days (Sports) 2700
About 7,300
Tickets – bought in advance (but still taking into account NG) cost almost 50 tons.R. (Moscow-Vancouver-Moscow). In November, they are 1.5 times more expensive.
Good luck with everyone!
Official statistics in Moscow – 52 days
Passed documents through a visa center in May 2014., Waiting for almost a month, there is no news. In the end, in the visa center, they still pointed to the official website of the Canadian Embassy, to the section with statistics.
So, on average, a visa for a short-term visit is made in Moscow 52 days (data on March 10, 2014.)
Unfortunately, visa center "VFS Global" This information hides. Employees say that the embassy does not report or that they do not have the right to voice the timing. And people submit statements and are still surprised that time goes, trips are broken, and no one can say anything. The embassy is blamed, and we need to blame the visa center, because they immediately do not warn about it and take applications that will most likely pass in terms.
Tourist visa for 8 years
Multiple visa for almost 8 years
Independent receipt of a visa at an invitation for 2 days!
There is nothing impossible in getting a visa on its own and at the invitation!
November 6 passed documents to the visa center, on November 7, they laid a visa (the tour, one-time – as he asked), on November 8, the treated passport from the embassy was sent back to the visa center. Everything! Tour visa for half a year is ready!
What they were doing:
– Filled questionnaires (there is on the site)
– 2 photos according to the requirements
– They received invitations from sports organizations in Canada (we are going to play sports)
– received a letter in English from their sports section in Moscow
– Took a certificate from work my work (translated from the translation agency)
– collected help from work (translated into English to the Bureau)
– Took an extract from the bank (immediately in English)
– Marriage certificate, certificate from the work of the husband (everything translated into English to the Bureau), took a copy of his first page
By the way, in the accompanying letter prescribed separately why the husband can’t go. And, since we are going three, and the documents together passed only together, wrote why the third friend to take documents later.
Despite the fact that it was done by everything, at the invitation (signed men) – a visa was given without questions and problems! What do you want!
Total expenses:
– Translation bypassed in area 1000
– Photo 250
– Visa fees, duties and t.NS. 3392 (they did not download those profiles from the site and had to redo it in place, and this is also a money)
– Insurance for 20 days (Sports) 2700
About 7,300
Tickets – bought in advance (but still taking into account NG) cost almost 50 tons.R. (Moscow-Vancouver-Moscow). In November, they are 1.5 times more expensive.
Good luck with everyone!
Visa in Canada: Leave hope
Strike in the Canadian Embassy
Strike in the Canadian Embassy – no visa for two months
Visa to Canada – We are already waiting for more than a month
Strike in the Canadian Embassy: delay visas
Visa to Canada – Make more than a month
I want to tell about the experience of obtaining a Canadian visa at the invitation
I want to tell about the experience of obtaining a Canadian visa at the invitation. Everything turned out to be easier than I thought. If you give a package of documents through Pony Express (like me), then there you will clearly say what documents needed (for example, the work was not needed) and even the profiles will be checked. So, to obtain a visa you need to prepare:
1. IMM 5257 questionnaire,
2. Questionnaire "Information about the family",
3. Questionnaire "Additional information for the questionnaire for a temporary resident visa".
All these questionnaires download and find an unofficial translation on the website of the Canadian Embassy in Russia, direct link: http: // www.Canadainternational.GC.CA / RUSSIA-RUSSIE / VISAS / 52_1.ASPX?lang = rus&View = D).
4. Acting pass. passport. I sent a clean passport where there was not one visa, the old one did not apply (I have a good list of travels and I wrote all the information about the visas in the questionnaire "Additional information for the questionnaire. ").
If questions appear – be sure to ask them to the official email address: [email&# 160; Protected], t.To. on the phone they do not advise. For example, I answered on the same day and after the site appeared (!) clarification of my question. Work for people in general.
I want to note: in the IMM 5257 questionnaire in the work column, you need to write first of the present place, and below the previous ones, the date to not specify if you still work in this organization. Do not forget to form barcode by pressing the Validate button. In the questionnaire "Information about the family" No need to write a place of work of relatives (in Present Occupation) – enough position. Questionnaire "Additional information for the questionnaire for a temporary resident visa" You need to fill in a black handle, not necessarily gel. A visa is given from the date of consideration for half a year.
Experience in obtaining a visa to Canada independently
I want to share the experience of independently obtaining Canadian visas. Maybe someone will come in handy. After an unsuccessful attempt to obtain an Austrian visa through an accredited agency (the guys simply decided to work out on 6 visas, saying that we were allegedly an embassy and offered to us to make French visas), we decided to do the Canadian visas on our own. Having read all the horrors of the process of collecting documents and design, we still dare.
I want to say that we are going to go with family (me, husband and 2ee children: 6 and 11 years old). Previously nicknamed into several agencies (some moments were incomprehensible in the design of the questionnaire), to which the agencies, having heard that we were going on with the whole family, they stated that we would not give visas by 99% and that if we still want to get them – the children better leave at home. It goes without saying – the children at home we were not going to leave.
1. Profile 5257 http: // www.CIC.GC.CA / English / PDF / KITS / Forms / Imm5257e.PDF (filled with each tourist, both on adults and for children in one instance)
2. profile "Family Information" http: // www.CIC.GC.CA / ENGLISH / PDF / KITS / Forms / Imm5645e.PDF (filled only on adults in one instance)
3. profile "Additional information for the questionnaire for a temporary resident visa" http: // www.Canadainternational.GC.CA / RUSSIA-RUSSIE / ASSETS / PDFS / VISAS / 52_2_ENG.PDF (filled with the main applicant, t. E. Those who give the whole set of documents in one instance)
All questionnaires were filled in electronic form!
But the rest of the documents we provided to the Embassy:
1. 2nd photos 3.5 * 4.5
2. Trip Plan (a detailed description of the trip description, while playing every day … where we will live, what places to visit). We are an adricts to Trip Plan Confirmation of air ticket booking, confirmation of hotels, car, as well as a copy of insurance (50,000 Canadian $ per person.)
3. Statement of account
4. Help with work indicating position, experience, salary. Also indicated that the vacation was given for the time of the trip with the preservation of the post and s / n.
5. For children wrote a sponsorship letter.
6. On the older child – certificate from school.
The above documents are necessary, t.E. which are listed on the Embassy website (except air ticket booking, confirmation of hotel booking, car and insurance). Next, we have attached an additional set of documents, thereby showing our material status in Russia and reluctance and stay (migrate) in Canada (y):
7. A copy of the certificate of ownership of the apartment
eight. Copy of PTS on the car
nine. Copy Certificate of TC Registration
ten. Copy of Marriage Certificate
eleven. Copies of child birth certificates
12. Copies of old pass. passports
13. Copies of the Russian Federation Passports
fourteen. I even put a copy of the pedigree of our dog and the 2nd letters that she had "Super – champion"
All documents must be transferred to English. We all gave to the translation agency with the exception of the plan of the trip and sponsorship letters (they were translated).
Further, the entire package of documents was taken to the office "Pony Express" and exactly after 1 week received passports with visas. Madly Rada!
Good luck to everyone in obtaining visas! Not everything is so scary as described!
Getting a visa to Canada
Visa to Canada independently
So I decided to go to friends in Vancouver and Toronto and there was a question about the opening of a visa, since I work in tourism, then I myself took this procedure. Assembled the necessary documents:
1. Help from the place of work on the English.
2. Everything is needed questionnaires
3. A copy of the old passport
4. Issuing from a bank account, with 2 banks
5. Translated copy of the right of ownership, on yourself and husband
6. Translated copy of marriage certificate
7. Book on hotels
eight. Book tickets
nine. A copy of insurance for the entire period of arrival
ten. Approximate program of arrival (Scheduled for every day, in which I’m going to walk museums)
I note that I received a visa alone, without a husband. And everything, went to Pony Express, paid about 4,000 rubles, OOTPR. I was told that the visa will be made 4-6 weeks. But 15 days did not pass, as I received my passport with an open visa. So I didn’t have any problems at all, it turned out everything is quite simple. Successes everyone want to get to Canada!
Documents and receiving a single visa to Canada
Got a single visa to Canada. Maybe someone come in handy. So, I am a resident of Moscow, there is a friend in Toronto. He sent an email invitation. It is online.
1. Invitation. Made a printout on a color printer. These documents are in the list on the site of the Embassy of Canada – "Visiting friends and relatives in Canada". Five sheets turned out.
2. Certificate from work in English indicating income (72000 rubles.), and that for the period of such a vacation, I will be given, and the place for me will be saved. On certificate experience a little less than a year. Just in case, I pointed out in contacts Mobile phone director, t.To. The company is small and at some point the office is empty. There was no call from the consulate.
4. Passport with four Schengen visas, two Lithuanian visas (not Schengen at that time). The duration of the passport expires exactly one year later.
5. Questionnaire. I downloaded from the same site. It can be filled and only print. PDF file with protection.
6. Information about the family. From the same site.
7. Photo. I had a photo when I did a Czech visa. There are very tough photo requirements. By the way, there is no photo on a visa to Canada. Apparently for his card files. 2 pieces. We follow 🙂
eight. Notarized translation of a 1/2 apartment certificate in Moscow.
nine. Notarized translation of the birth certificate. Divorced. At my daughter my last name.
ten. Copy of the first page of the civil passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. Just in case. For example, in a bank certificate, the data of this passport (naturally).
eleven. Copy of the first page of the passport with personal data. In the requirements on the Canadian website there is no. There is on this site. Well, did, you never.
12. Visa payment. Paid in the department "Pony Express", where and submitted documents. 2150 rubles.
It’s all. I want to add separately:
– Insurance is not required. I will do for the period of stay in Canada. Especially, at the airport it may require an immigration officer.
– Flights will take now. Hope, "Lufthansa" With your strikes will not substitute.
– And the last. There was a thought to attach our photos from Paris, Germany, Prague. But looked at the package of documents and thought, and here these photos? Did not put at the last moment.
Documents filed in the department "Pony Express" on Novoslobodskaya, queue to pay documents – 5 minutes, a queue to pay for a visa – twenty minutes. I paid back delivery – 900 rubles, at home address. On the same day, SMS and E-MEIL came that the documents were transferred to the embassy. Informing at the level. Tracking invoice on the site. For the sixth working day there was information that passport "Released" and transferred for delivery. On the same day, it came again sms and a letter that delivery will be the next business day. What, in fact, happened. Thanks to all!
For christmas in Canada is not fate
Maybe I will say somewhat emotionally, but in Canada, Russians do not wait and see us there really do not want. I mean that getting a visa is quite difficult. That’s just acknowledged in a visa, while I had:
– all documents from work, according to the requirements and even more (business cards, printing and promotional materials);
– Passport with visas of 5 states, including Western Europe and the USA;
– statements from accounts with good finance;
– possession of apartments and a new car;
– Description of the trip for the visa officer;
– by itself, all documents are quite secured by the host.
Documents were filed through Pony Express. Before that I read that someone did not give a visa, I thought that I had to give it, everything seems to be good and with documents, and with everything. Well, adequate people work in the embassy. It turned out no. They say that the consul changed there, and in the Pony Express itself they were told that quite respectable people denied constantly. As "Bonus" left a stamp in the passport about the refusal of a visa. So think yourself, can you need Canada. Well, and 3 with more than thousands of rubles to pay for this humiliation (consideration of documents + pony express) I had to. That’s how, Russians.
The first time is the hardest
Visa to canada you can get! But if you are going there for the first time, the receipt of a visa will be a nervous member. For the first time, the embassy gives a visa to Canada very reluctantly, even if you have reinforced concrete reasons to go there! The presence of a ticket in hand does not mean anything, in 2007 in August in my eyes a woman handed over to Toronto tickets twice.
The most important thing to collect all the necessary documents and more accompanying documents, so that they did not have to send them to afterwards (although the pony express for the sale of money documents does not take). But if you have already received a visa, then every next time getting it faster and easier. And, by rumors, the countries of the British Commonwealth will be easier to enter if you have already visa to Canada.
Canadian visa once again
I still gave me a visa, despite the fresh, weekly old, refusal. I share the experience, for sure to someone come in handy .
So, the documents filed 2 times. The first received a refusal for a whealing package of various certificates and pieces of paper (already wrote about it a little earlier here:
http: // Community.LiveJournal.COM / RU_TRAVEL / 5262317.HTML).
The full list is:
In addition to standard applications and forms filled in English "Information about the family" in 2 copies. Well, respectively, 2 photos
1. Invitation from girlfriend from Canada
2. Copy of her permanent resident card
3. Copy of its Tax Declaration
4. Letter from her place of work with a position, the term that she works there, and sn.
5. List of possible places where we can go with her (compiled by a friend, in English)
All this pony express was sent to the Embassy to Moscow, and after a while my passport was returned with a stamp on the reception of documents and the subfolded letter.
a letter of failure, who is interested, is a sheet of paper A4, on which on the one hand in English. (or in French, depending on what you choose service language in the application), on the other – in Russian (unofficial translation) is written (in short) that your application was considered, but the visa officer is not satisfied and believes that you Do not satisfy the requirements for temporary residents of Canada. Next follows a list of reasons, one of which is marked by a check mark. I have been marked here:
You do not meet the requirements of the status of the law, namely, there is a possibility that you will not leave the territory of Canada at the end of the allowed duration of stay. The following factors are considered to make this decision:
a) any violation of the rules of entry into Canada in the past
b) your previous overtakers
c) you immigrant status
d) your family connections in Canada and in the country of residence
e) the estimated stay in Canada
e) the purpose of the trip
g) limited perspectives of professional employment in the country of residence
h) your current labor activity
and) your financial situation
all in all.. I was not even upset, I was just in bewilderment. Taking into account the fact that the embassies in every corner hangs "We invite immigrants", T.E. If you want to go there, you can go to live legally, what’s sense to do it illegally? come and stay.. and what? Prostitute there is working? 🙂 Having two higher education, a loved one and good work in Russia.. Yes, perhaps, this is what I’m going to do 🙂
As a result, holding a disturbed question in my head "dude, what are you fucking?!", I went to collect certificates on the second round. Yes, there is no official appeal procedure, you can apply for the second time. At the same time, it is necessary to pay the consular fee again, to provide all the same documents as for the first time (and if in a statement or information about the family or some other important documents they will find some difference, they will be married in the veracity of information that You provide, and you will receive a failure and 2-year quarantine), and some new information or evidence that your situation has changed. My situation has not changed no longer (if you do not consider a change to the existing failure), so in my version there are only new information, and on the items specified just above (factors on the basis of which they decide).
So, plus to the list above were collected:
1. Letter on 2 pages. in English. Yaz. From me, in which it is detailed, why I am not satisfied with their decision not to give me a visa 🙂 And if seriously, there are the causes of the trips and the reasons for which these deadlines were chosen. In the letter – a list of additional documents that I give them to familiarize yourself, also in English. Yaz. I thought that in the absence of an interview all explanations, explanations, which I consider it to give to them, if they do not fit in a straight hole 2 * 4 cm, it is worth writing where they are placed 🙂
2. An invitation letter from girlfriend (new), which describes how she wants to see me and why (after 8 years abroad)
3. A letter from the work of the girlfriend, where it is indicated that she was given a vacation for the dates of my trip and that it is free to be in the workplace on the trail. day after my departure
4. Copy of student girlfriend (t.To. In the letter, she mentions that he cannot yet come to Russia, and one of the reasons for this is what she is still learning)
5. A copy of my employment book with 6 years of experience (which seemed to me essential at the age of 23),
6. A copy of the contract concluded in June, according to which I spend training in a consulting company every month (which I really spend, but there was no contract before) + with a schedule + a copy of gratitude for the training behaved in June,
7. 2 diplomas about the highest pedagogical + certificate of passing training for coaches
eight. Detailed description of the trip – that I and my girlfriend are going to do every day where to walk and what to watch + Printout of the hotel’s hotel in Montreal, where we, judging by the description of the trip, are going for 2 days.
Actually, all. I sent a pony express again on July 24. Today (August 3) received a passport with a visa. By the way, you can calculate something. Receipt of payment of visa collection dated July 27. Visa put on July 31. Minus Saturday-Sunday weekend = 3 days.
