Find out if you need a visa to visit, do business or transit through Canada.
Find out what immigration programs you can apply for, sponsor your family and use a representative
Apply for a work permit, learn about International Experience Canada and being a caregiver, get your credentials recognized
Apply for a study permit or student work permit
Claim refugee protection, sponsor a refugee, find services for refugees in Canada and appeal a refugee claim
Find out what document you need to travel, visit family and friends, do business, or transit through Canada
- What a visitor visa is, eligibility and how to apply
- Visit your children or grandchildren
- Who is eligible and how to apply for a super visa that lets you stay with family in Canada for up to 5 years at a time
- Visitors, students and workers who want to extend their stay (temporary resident status) in Canada
- What it means to transit through Canada and which documents you need
- Who business visitors are, and how to bring business visitors or delegates to your meeting or event
- Travel tips, what happens at the border, and prohibited or restricted goods
Immigrate to Canada
How you can immigrate to Canada, how to protect yourself from fraud and what to expect after you arrive in Canada.
- Immigrate as a skilled worker
- Sponsor your relatives, including your spouse, partner, children, parents, grandparents, and others to immigrate
- Immigrate by graduating from a school or working in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, or Newfoundland and Labrador
- Immigrate by providing care for children, the elderly or those with medical needs, or work as a live-in caregiver
- Immigrate by starting a business and creating jobs
- Immigrate as a self-employed person in cultural or athletic activities
- Smaller Canadian communities supporting their local economy through immigration. Pilot opens to permanent resident applicants later in 2019.
- Immigrate by working in specific agri-food industries and occupations
- Immigrate through economic permanent residence pathways as an eligible skilled refugee
- Immigrate as a refugee or become a sponsor
- Live, work or study in French in a Francophone community outside Quebec.
Work in Canada (Foreign workers)
Apply to work in Canada, and extend a work permit
- Who needs a work permit, which permit is right for you and special instructions for some workers
- Find out if you can apply and how to apply to work in Canada as a temporary worker, business person and student
- Travel and work in Canada as a youth. Find out if you can apply for the International Experience Canada Program, how to become a candidate and what to do after you’re in the pool
- Prepare to work. Find a job, explore other career opportunities, get your credentials assessed and learn about language training
Study in Canada as an international student
Apply to study in Canada as an international student, extend your study permit and find out about working while you study or after you graduate
- Preparing to apply
- Applying to schools in Canada as an international student
- The different kinds of schools, when to apply and other requirements
- Learn about student life in Canada
- Tips on living in Canada as an international student
- Scholarships for international students
- Awards for students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty and schools
- Applying for a study permit
- Who can apply, how to submit your application, processing times and what to expect when you get to Canada
- Study in Canada as a minor child: What minor children need to go to school in Canada
- Work while studying: Who can work while they study, how much and where (on campus, off campus, co-op, and post-graduation)
- Stay and work in Canada after you graduate: Get a work permit to stay in Canada after you graduate and how to apply for permanent residence
Refugees and asylum
Find out how to go to Canada as a refugee, sponsor a refugee or find refugee services in Canada.
- Who can claim asylum, the asylum process and latest news
- Who can sponsor refugees, forms, processing times and what to do after you apply
- Immigrate through economic permanent residence pathways as an eligible skilled refugee
- Resettle in Canada as a refugee. Who can be sponsored as a refugee, what to do after you apply and what to expect when you get to Canada
- How Canada’s refugee system works
- Find out what Canada is doing to help LGBTQI+ refugees.
