Is it mandatory that a California resident can apply only from Los Angeles?

[ditty]

Hello,

I am a US citizen living in Bay Area. I am trying to apply for a visitors visa to Canada for my parents. We are planning to leave for Canada on June 8th for a visit to see the Niagara falls for 2-3 days.
Is it mandatory that I should apply for visitors visa only from the LA consulate or can I apply from any embassy?

Any idea for processing times from the LA Consulate for a Mailed IN application?

Please help. Thank you in advance.

 

[YorkFactory]

Where do your parents reside, and what is their citizenship? U.S. citizens shouldn't need a visa unless they're somehow inadmissible to Canada.

 

[ditty]

Parents are Indian citizens and so they do need a visitors visa. I dm trying to apply for a multiple entry visa.

 

[YorkFactory]

Are they in the U.S. on currently valid visitor visas? If they don't, they would need to use a visa office in India. If they are still lawfully admitted to the U.S., then I would submit an inquiry to the visa office you intend to use (but Seattle is the only other visa office anywhere near you) to ask them if you can submit a visa application to them.

The processing times page indicates that all of the visa offices in the U.S. have a processing time of 30 days. New Delhi's processing time is currently 7 days, but I understand that it's illegal to mail or courier passports into or out of India, so you're probably stuck using the visa offices in the U.S.

 

[ditty]

Ofcourse they are in the US with a valid visa. Hence my query as to if it is mandatory that we should apply only to LA consulate or can we apply to one which has a quicker processing time.

Any idea how long the processing time is in LA consulate.

 

[PMM]

Hi

Ofcourse they are in the US with a valid visa. Hence my query as to if it is mandatory that we should apply only to LA consulate or can we apply to one which has a quicker processing time.

Any idea how long the processing time is in LA consulate.

Well all the US offices show a processing time of 30 days. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/temp/visitors.asp#west

 

[ditty]

ok. thanks

 

[ditty]

But will it be OK if I apply to NY office rather than to LA?
Anybody in this forum has done that?

 

[ditty]

Had applied for the TRV on 04/18.

Got the stamped PP yesterday 04/28 from LA office.
Thanks all for your inputs. Appreciate it.