So, What Exactly is a Temporary Resident Visa to Canada?

A Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) represents a number of categories that all have in common a temporary stay nature. It is given to people who wish to visit Canada (visitor visa), or those who wish to study in Canada (Study Permit), or those who want to work in Canada (Work Visa), in addition to few other cases.

Having a TRV issued to you, shows that you have met the requirements for admission to Canada as a temporary resident in the category of your request. The visa will be stamped in your passport and will form the legal document of you being present inside Canada for the period allowed by the visa.

Another type of Temporary Resident Visas is the Super visa, which can be used by Canadian citizens or Canadian permanent residents to sponsor their parents for PR for a rather extended periods of temporary residence. The Super Visa program allows for family members to stay in Canada for long-term on a multiple entry visa that can last up to 10 years and which has to be renewed after 2 years. This program was created to help offset the pressure on parent sponsorship which usually take a long time and works through an annual quota opening and closing -mostly- in the month of February of every year

Here are few other types of Temporary Visas:

• A diplomatic visa: They are non-immigrant visas that are meant to show that Canada intends to accord official status to the passport holder. Diplomatic and official visas are granted to persons entitled to diplomatic or consular privileges and immunities who intend to travel to Canada for an official purpose or to pass through Canada on the way to an assignment in another state. This is under international and domestic law.
• Courtesy visas: Visas that are given to persons of diplomatic rank coming to Canada for tourist purposes, to members of the International Air Transport Association (ITRA), to members of a trade mission visiting Canada, and to well-known visiting professors coming to Canada to attend conferences. this type of visa is issued in any type of passport to persons who require visa or who are normally visa-exempt.
• Facilitation visas: Visas that are only single-entry and valid for the period needed to travel when new, replacement or emergency passports cannot be issued in a sufficiently timely fashion. It is also issued when the travel is urgent. Such cases include children who are born in Canada  to foreign nationals who have returned to their country and do not wish to assert their Canadian citizenship acquired at birth, for children going through citizen adoption overseas, and for presumptive Canadians under the age of 18 who are coming to Canada wither to reside with their Canadian parent(s) or for humanitarian and compassionate reasons as determined by the visa officer.

An electronic travel authorization (eTA) is also needed for most visa-exempt foreign nationals travelling or transiting through Canada by air.

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