Posted on: 12-03-14 18:19:27
Hello,
I need urgent help if anyone has any clue about it...
My mom is planning to come to Canada from India, she already has a visitor visa which is valid upto Apr 12, 2014. She will land in Canada by Mar end, will the immigration officer allow her to enter the country and give her permit to stay for another couple of months.
Does anyone have any experience / knowledge about the same. If you can guide me.
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Originally posted by CAJ
Hello,
I need urgent help if anyone has any clue about it...
My mom is planning to come to Canada from India, she already has a visitor visa which is valid upto Apr 12, 2014. She will land in Canada by Mar end, will the immigration officer allow her to enter the country and give her permit to stay for another couple of months.
Does anyone have any experience / knowledge about the same. If you can guide me.
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If she lands here before the expiry of the Visa, she will get SIX months stay. But she will have to have an open ticket for her return, which you can book after Two months here. She has to tell the I.O. she wants to stay in Canada for Six months. The departure is left to your choice.
Buy a Travel Insurance policy for the duration of her stay in Canada.
FH.
visa officer will allow her to enter and will also enquire how long she intends to stay. She can mention couple of months.
in case visa officer makes an observation on the visa expiry date he/she will put a stamp of that date as date of leaving. they will also mention it to your mom which your mom should agree at that point. Its their discretion that they may not even stamp the passport, that by default means 6 months but in your mom's case it will mean she should leave before expiry of visa.
If you want your mom to stay longer, apply for visa extn as soon as she lands. (can be applied 30 days in advance of 6 months completion or expiry of visa whichever earlier). Once applied she can stay beyond apr 12 on implied status , even if the extension letter is not sent.
failure to apply for visa extension will result in overstay which will be hindrance in getting visa in future.
SH - I may be wrong, but the visa validity is for 'entry' purposes only. Once you enter within the validity date, you can stay up to 180 days (by default) or the date stamped by the immigration officer. If you stay beyond these dates without an extension, then it is constituted as an over stay.
Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect.
Hiren
Why do you want to take a chance with only two months' visa? My recommendation is to apply for the visa extension and then have her here. Barring the initial formalities, you will have a smoother sailing in the long run. You will anyway have to renew/extend her visa, so why not now before she travels to Canada? Even if she has booked the tickets, you can send your extension application.
Why do you want to raise unnecessary and suspecting brows of CBP with only two months visa?
Get it extended first. Will save you in the long run.
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Originally posted by hchheda
SH - I may be wrong, but the visa validity is for 'entry' purposes only. Once you enter within the validity date, you can stay up to 180 days (by default) or the date stamped by the immigration officer. If you stay beyond these dates without an extension, then it is constituted as an over stay.
Please correct me if my understanding is incorrect.
Hiren
I think you can't over stay beyond the visa expiration. If it's expiring on April 12th, then that's the day you are allowed to stay upto. However, exception is if you apply for visa extension before this date, you can then stay until you hear the final decision on the extension.
My another advise would be to contact CIC call centre and ask them, once and for all.
I could not find anything on the official website, but here is one I found one of the information sites :
The visa merely authorizes the visa holder to appear at a Canadian port-of-entry before the expiry date shown on the visa to request permission to visit our country. A single-entry visa allows the person to seek admission once before the expiry date. A multiple-entry visa allows the holder to seek admission multiple times before the visa expires.
The visa neither guarantees admission to Canada nor does the expiry date on the visa determine how long the person will get to stay here. It is the officer at the port-of-entry, not the officer at the visa post, who decides if the person will be allowed to enter Canada and, if so, for how long.
If the port-of-entry officer believes the visa holder should be allowed into Canada; he or she will stamp the passport. It is this stamp that authorizes the visitor’s entry and determines how long the visitor can stay. The stamp alone allows the person to visit Canada for upto six months. However, the port-of-entry officer can shorten this period by specifying an earlier date, by pen, just below the stamp. This is the date the person must leave Canada unless they have applied for an extension prior to that date.
Many visitors mistakenly believe that they must leave Canada before the expiry date shown on the sticker in their passport. This is not correct.
Source : http://canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrate/duration-of-visits-need-clarification-for-visa-holders
Hiren
