Accompanying family member
- Thread starter MTB101
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Canadian student? Or international student studying in Canada?
Canadians don't need authorization.
For International students, did your family apply together with you? If yes, they do not need authorization.
If not, and they are accompanying on visit visa or eTA, they need to request authorization and indicate they are going to help student settle down etc.
Nope! You are good to go
.On a separate note, is your husband intending to stay with you(and work) in Canada? If so, he should have applied for a SOWP upfront, as I hear it's now extremely difficult to convert his visiting visa to owp once you are inland.
Yes but too late now. You won't get it approved before your trip. What is the validity of their TRVs, is it same as yours? You can attempt to put in a SOWP once you are inland, and visitor records for your kids after 6 months.
What about visitors record? Who can apply for that and Is it easy to get these days?
Nothing is easy to get these days unfortunately, but visitor's records should not be hard since they are accompanying you. When your family enters Canada, the border officer will stamp a date on their passport. That's how long they can stay for at a time. You can apply for visitor records for the kids to extend their stay beyond the stamped date. if not stamped, they can stay for 6 months at a time, but need to apply for the record before that time is up. See here for more: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/visit-canada/extend-stay.html
Your husband cannot work on a visitor's visa. Is he not planning to work?
He is interested in working but as you told that it is difficult to get SOWP thn wat are the other options
After how many days he can apply for SOWP? And does he can also apply for visitor record?
After how many days he can apply for SOWP? Sorry, I don't know. my husband applied for his prior to us travelling. It took 7 weeks to be approved.
And does he can also apply for visitor record? Yes he can, 30 days prior to the date stamped on his passport.
its better to obtain written authorization just in case. i’ve personally spoken to embassy staff in my country and to CBSA agents. The embassy staff said that the written authorization isn’t required, but the CBSA agents said that it is. make of that what you will