CIC Help Centre

Top 12 Questions

• How can I check the status of my application?
• How can I get a PR card?
• How do I apply for citizenship?
• How can I extend my stay as a visitor?
• How can I extend my stay as a worker?
• How can I extend my stay as a student?
• How can I come to Canada as a visitor, worker or student?
• How can I sponsor my spouse or children?
• How can I determine whether I can apply for permanent residence?
• How do I fill out an application?
• How can I pay my application fees?
• Can my friend or family member handle my application for me?

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Access to Information and Privacy

Adoption

Application status

• Checking an application status
• Checking processing times
• Contacting a visa office

Applying - General

• Determining your eligibility
• Completing an application form
• Paying application fees
• Submitting an application
• Applying online
  • Applying online - General
  • Accessing online services
• Medical exam
• Police certificate
• Changing your address
• Getting a fee refund
• Extending visas and permits

Biometrics

Asylum claims

Citizenship

• Determining your eligibility
• Language assessment for citizenship applicants
• Applying for citizenship
• Taking the citizenship exam
• Attending the citizenship ceremony
• Replacing a citizenship certificate

Downloading files

Immigrating

• Canadian Experience Class
  • Applying - General
  • Determining your eligibility
  • Work Experience
• Skilled Workers and Professionals
  • Applying - General
  • Language testing
  • Immigrating to Quebec as a Skilled Worker
• Business immigration program
  • Applying - General
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Investors
  • Self-Employed Persons
  • Start-up visa
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Immigration representatives

• Consultants
• Applicants

Inadmissibility

• Entering Canada
• Rehabilitation

Permanent resident card

• Permanent resident card - General
• Permanent residents travelling outside Canada
• Replacing a permanent resident card

Refugees

• Sponsoring a refugee
• Financial support for Government-Assisted Refugees
• Refugee claims in Canada
• Proving your status

Replacing documents

• Replacing stolen, lost or destroyed documents - General
• Replacing a permanent resident card
• Replacing a citizenship certificate
• Correcting errors in documents

Service standards

Sponsoring your family

• Sponsoring a parent or grandparent
• Sponsoring other family members

Studying

• Studying - General
• Study permit
  • General
  • Travelling with a study permit
• Work permits for students
  • General
  • Co-op and internship programs
  • Off-Campus work permit
  • Post-Graduation work permit
• Tourist visa for students
• Extending or replacing your study permit
• Permanent residence for students
  • General
  • Canadian Experience Class

Visiting

• Tourist visa
• Super visa - parents and grandparents
• Business visitor
• Extending your stay

Work permits

• Work - General
• Applying for a work permit
• Tourist visa for temporary workers
• Hiring a foreign worker
• Labour Market Opinion
• Live-in Caregiver Program
  • Employers
  • Recruiters and representatives
  • Employment contracts and benefits
  • Job changes and your work permit
  • Working conditions
  • Studying in Canada
  • Visiting home or working outside Canada
  • Extending your stay
  • Open Work Permit
  • Permanent residence
• Family members
• Extending your work permit
• Pilot project for occupations requiring lower level of formal training

Top Glossary terms

• Citizenship ceremony
• In process
• Certified photocopy
• Common-law partner
• Conjugal partner
• Spouse
• Family member
• Dependant
• Principal applicant
• Permanent resident
• Record of landing
• Letter of invitation
• Implied status

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