leave Canada for a short period and come back

[betse9]

Hello,

Me and my spouse moved to Canada last January. We both received a 2-year working permit upon entrance (an open one for my spouse and a specific one for me). During the remaining period, we would like to visit America and go back to France for a short visit to our families. But can we just walk/fly/drive out and come back in? I remember that during our application for a work permit we had to fill in form IMM5257, but we never received a Temporary Resident Visa (yes, I should've thought asking about that when we entered). Which makes me wonder why we had to fill it in, and if maybe we should've looked for it somewhere but didn't.

As we are European citizens, I believe we do not need to ask again for a TRV, but rather an eta, if we wish to go to France. But to go to America, we don't need a visa or eta. Is this correct? We really wouldn't like to be stuck at the border...

thank you,
Betse

 

[Bs65]

So do you have visa exempt passports if so if you enter the US by land border you fill in an i94 form at the border, if flying into the US you need to apply for ESTAs from the official US government site. To fly back into Canada from Sept 29 you will need ETAs assuming you have visa exempt passports.

The 2 year work permits what exact types when you say open and specfic ? IEC working holiday or something else ?