Most travelers need a Visa to enter Canada and Visitor Visa (aka Temporary Resident Visa) is one of the category that allows a foreign national to enter & remain temporarily in Canada. Travelers from visa exempt countries require an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) before they board a flight.

Duration of Stay

In most cases, Temporary resident visa allows a visitor to stay upto 6 months in Canada but Border services officer, at the port of entry, has a discretion to allow more than or less than 6 months stay. As long as CBSA officer doesn’t give you a visitor record or put a date stamp in your passport that shows the date you need to leave Canada, you can stay upto 6 months or until your passport expires (whichever comes first).

In certain cases, with a valid reason, foreign national may apply for the extension of their stay. An online or paper application can be submitted with supporting documents. Period of extension is on Visa officer’s discretion and based on the reason stated in the application. If approved then foreign national has to undergo immigration medical examination by panel physician.

How to Apply & processing times?

Applications for Temporary resident visa can be submitted online or by paper. Most foreign nationals need to give biometrics as a new measure of security. Once submitted, processing times may vary according to the volume of applications but it ranges between 15 days to 90 days.

About work permit for spouse

In case you are an international student who is studying full-time with a valid study permit, your spouse can apply for an open work permit. Having an open work permit empowers your spouse to work either on or may be off the campus full-time while you study.

Spouse

The spouse of an international student may apply for an open work permit for which the student must be studying full-time at:

• A public post-secondary institution; or
• A private post- secondary institution that works under similar rules and regulations as a public institution and gets half of its entire operations budget from government grants; or
• A private institution approved by provincial statute to confer degrees.
• An open work grant enables the holder to work for any business in Canada, and does not require a Labour Market Opinion or offer of employment. The work permit will for the most part have a similar time of validity as the study permit. Nonetheless, the open work permit may reject certain occupations protection of public health is necessary, except if the applicant undergoes an immigration medical test.

Along these lines, not exclusively can the spouses of international students increase significant Canadian work experience, yet in addition can help support their families monetarily.

When to apply?

Your spouse can apply for a work permit before or after they land in Canada. The work permit will ordinarily be issued for a similar period of time as your study permit. Your spouse need not require a job offer to apply for a work permit.

In a few cases, Canadian visa offices abroad will process spouse work permit applications simultaneously as study permit applications. For this situation, you should include the extra expense for the work permit and complete the work permit application for your spouse, accessible from the site of the consulate.

Most spouse come to Canada as visitors first and apply for a work permit after they are in Canada. On the off chance that your spouse does not require a TRV (Temporary Resident Visa), they might almost certainly apply for a work permit at the border or airport from where they enter Canada.

Validity of the open work permit

Your spouse’s work permit is valid for the same time period as your study permit.

Final words

Canada’s promise to family unification implies that international students and their families have the chance to encounter Canadian life together. Regardless of whether it is for a couple of months or for quite a long while, international students will be comforted to realize that their family can be close-by as they pursue their dreams to get educated in Canada.

The program is monitored by Canada’s Express Entry, a system that manages the applications for permanent residency that are being received by the Immigration. Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).Moreover, the candidates are ranked based on certain parameters and then sent an Invitation to Apply (ITA) by the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) system of Express Entry. The Comprehensive Ranking System is a ranking system that ranks candidates based on parameters such as age, education, language ability, etc.

• The candidate must firstly stand eligible on the selection of factors such as age, education, experience, a job offer from a Canadian employer, language ability, and adaptability
• The applicant must be at least 18 years of age to apply under this program.
• Another requirement for Federal Skilled Worker Program(FSW) is the educational proof that the applicant must provide wherein if he/she has taken Canadian education the proof for the same must be given or if the education qualification is not from Canada then the applicant must provide with an equivalent Educational Credential Assessment (ECA)
• One of the requirements that a candidate should fulfill is the work experience. Moreover, the applicant should at least have a 1-year full-time experience in the same job type as his/her primary occupation.
• The applicant should fulfill the language benchmark of CLB 7 or NCLC 7 in the first official language of Canada. Also, they should qualify with minimum CLB 5 or NCLC 5 in the second official language
• The candidate must show necessary proof of funds when they arrive in Canada to support themselves.

The applicant must score a total of more than 67 points out of 100 points which are used to evaluate applicants under Canada’s Federal Skilled Worker program.

• The first benefit that is availed by the candidate on getting permanent residency through this economic immigration program is that the applicant can work anywhere in Canada except the province of Quebec.
• The second benefit is that if the applicant who is moving to Canada with their family if he/she is the primary applicant then the family members directly get permanent residency for Canada which includes spouse and dependent children.
• On getting permanent residency, the applicant can call his parents under the family sponsorship program.
• The applicant on getting permanent residency in Canada can help their siblings in gaining extra points when they too apply for permanent residency under the Federal Skilled Worker Program.

Now, for applying under this program certain immigration laws are there which need to be considered. So if a candidate is unaware of such laws should take help from an expert. To help you with Federal Skilled Worker program application and understanding the requirements of this program according to Express Entry you can take the help of Amod Immigration.