Changing your cachet afterwards advancing to Canada as a visitor
After you access in Canada, you may appetite to change the altitude of your visit. This is accessible in appropriate cases.
Most visitors are accustomed to break in Canada for no added than six months but, in some cases, visitors can break longer. The date that you charge leave Canada will be formed in your passport. If you accept a abstraction admittance or a assignment permit, the aforementioned accomplishment date will additionally be formed in it.
If you adjudge you appetite to break longer, you can administer for an extension. You charge accelerate your appliance to extend your break at atomic 30 canicule afore your Acting Aborigine Acceptance expires. If you break best than you are accustomed by your visa, you will lose your acting aborigine cachet and you could be asked to leave Canada.
You charge administer to extend your break if you appetite to:
visit, abstraction or assignment best in Canada
change the blazon of your admittance (for example, from belief to alive in Canada) or
change the altitude of your break (for example, if you are belief or alive in Canada, and you appetite to change schools or jobs).
How to administer to extend your stay
Obtain an appliance package.
Read the guide.
Complete the appliance anatomy and attach the all-important documents.
Pay the fee and get the all-important receipt.
Mail the appliance anatomy and documents.
1. Obtain an appliance package.
The amalgamation includes the appliance adviser and all the forms you charge to ample out. Download and book the appliance package.
2. Read the guide.
Read the adviser anxiously afore you complete the appliance form. The fee for processing your anatomy is not refundable, so accomplish abiding you are acceptable to extend your break afore you apply.
3. Complete the appliance anatomy and attach the all-important documents.
The appliance anatomy contains instructions. Read those instructions, and be abiding to accommodate the appropriate documents. If advice or abstracts are missing, your appliance may be delayed.
Make abiding you explain why you appetite to extend your appointment to Canada. Collect all the abstracts you need. See the Appliance Adviser for added information.
4. Pay the fee and get the all-important receipt.
The fee is $75.
You can pay fees:
at best banks. If you use this method, you charge get an aboriginal cancellation of acquittal (form IMM 5401) to accompany with you back you pay. This anatomy is not accessible online. You charge accept it mailed to you. See Order a cancellation of acquittal (IMM 5401) beneath Related Links at the basal of the page.
online through Pay my appliance fees in the I Charge To… area on the right-hand of this page. Once you accept paid your fees online, you charge book a cancellation of acquittal anatomy and accommodate it with your application. Be abiding to book the absolute receipt, not the “payment acceptance form” page. See Acquittal of fees on the Internet beneath Related Links at the basal of the folio for added information.
5. Mail the appliance and the all-important documents.
Mail your completed appliance to the abode accustomed in the appliance package. Accomplish abiding you accommodate the fee cancellation and all the all-important documents.
You can acquisition advice on how continued it will booty to action your appliance in the I Charge To… area on the right-hand ancillary of this page. You can additionally analysis the cachet of your appliance by contacting the CIC Call Centre.
Becoming a abiding aborigine of Canada
If you ambition to break in Canada as a abiding resident, you charge leave the country and administer from alfresco Canada. To become a abiding resident, you charge accommodated the requirements for clearing to Canada. You can acquisition added advice about acceptable a abiding aborigine in the Related Links area at the basal of this page.
However, you can administer to become a abiding aborigine from central Canada if you are:
a refugee or a adequate being
a apron or common-law accomplice of a Canadian aborigine or abiding aborigine
a chambermaid caregiver or
you authority a accurate Acting Residence Admittance (formerly alleged a Minister’s Permit).
Working or belief in Canada
Most visitors to Canada are not accustomed to assignment or abstraction in Canada after permission.
You charge administer for a assignment admittance or a abstraction admittance afore advancing to Canada. If you are visiting Canada and you appetite to administer to assignment or study, you charge leave Canada and administer from your home country. However, in some cases, alive after a admittance or belief after a admittance is allowed.
