Hi,
Our mother had a visitor visa in her old passport expiring April 2019. The Visa was issued in 2016 June and it says that it expires in June 2021. She just renewed her passport and someone told her that you can provide your old and new passports to the Visa Office in Ankara and they will transfer the visa into the new passport so she can visit Canada again without reapplying until June of 2021. Is this correct?
It is expensive to go to Ankara from Iran so she wants to be sure this is possible.
Below says that she can use both passports to enter Canada. Visas are also issued for the length of the passport. However, in her case, her visa has a 5 years validity while her passport is no longer valid.
"If an expired passport contains a valid visa counterfoil, the counterfoil can still be used since the expiration of the passport has no effect on the visa's validity. Holders of a valid visa may continue to use their visa until the date it expires even if the visa is in an expired passport. Visitors can fulfil the visa and passport requirements by presenting both the renewed and expired passports containing the valid visa counterfoil to a BSO when seeking entry into Canada. The Regulations state that visas should not be issued longer than the validity of the passport. However, due to pre-IRPA cases, it is possible to encounter visas in expired passports.
It is not possible to "transfer" a valid visa into a new passport. If the holder of a valid visa wishes to have a visa placed in their new passport or if the passport is deemed ‘not valid’ for political or security concerns, visitors must apply for a replacement visa by submitting a new application and paying the replacement document fee in accordance with R311(2).
If the applicant wishes to obtain a visa valid for a longer period in the new document, this will constitute a new temporary resident visa application and any applicable fees resulting from this new application will be collected. The previous visa will subsequently be cancelled."
Our mother had a visitor visa in her old passport expiring April 2019. The Visa was issued in 2016 June and it says that it expires in June 2021. She just renewed her passport and someone told her that you can provide your old and new passports to the Visa Office in Ankara and they will transfer the visa into the new passport so she can visit Canada again without reapplying until June of 2021. Is this correct?
It is expensive to go to Ankara from Iran so she wants to be sure this is possible.
Below says that she can use both passports to enter Canada. Visas are also issued for the length of the passport. However, in her case, her visa has a 5 years validity while her passport is no longer valid.
"If an expired passport contains a valid visa counterfoil, the counterfoil can still be used since the expiration of the passport has no effect on the visa's validity. Holders of a valid visa may continue to use their visa until the date it expires even if the visa is in an expired passport. Visitors can fulfil the visa and passport requirements by presenting both the renewed and expired passports containing the valid visa counterfoil to a BSO when seeking entry into Canada. The Regulations state that visas should not be issued longer than the validity of the passport. However, due to pre-IRPA cases, it is possible to encounter visas in expired passports.
It is not possible to "transfer" a valid visa into a new passport. If the holder of a valid visa wishes to have a visa placed in their new passport or if the passport is deemed ‘not valid’ for political or security concerns, visitors must apply for a replacement visa by submitting a new application and paying the replacement document fee in accordance with R311(2).
If the applicant wishes to obtain a visa valid for a longer period in the new document, this will constitute a new temporary resident visa application and any applicable fees resulting from this new application will be collected. The previous visa will subsequently be cancelled."
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