Visitor visa extended-trv is also extended? Can travel outside canada?

[Luval]

I am confused about the difference between a visitor visa and trv.

My husband came to canada on a visitor visa, multiple entry, valid from dec 27th, 2013-dec 27th, 2014. We are waiting for sponsorship approval but he really needs to fly home, out of canada, for a couple weeks. Myself and our daughter will be going with him.

In June, 2014 he applied for a visitor visa extension (to get his healthcare as 6 months had passed) which was approved until dec, 2014. I guess that was called a visitor record? Then December 7th, 2014 he applied for another visitor visa extension which was approved (another visitor record?) until December, 2015.

Does this mean he can travel out of canada? I'm so confused by this..or could he only travel within one first 6 months after they stamped his passport upon arrival in canada? What's the point of multiple entry then if he can't leave and come back on this visa??

Thank you

Valerie

 

[scylla]

A visitor visa and a TRV are the same thing.

Yes - he can certainly travel outside of Canada. Nothing is stopping him from doing that. However as soon as he leaves this effectively cancels his extension. When he re-enters Canada, he will be assessed as a new visitor (which always carries some small chance he may be refused re-entry). This same rule applied within the first six months he was in Canada and still applies now. Again, if he leaves Canada and re-enters, he'll be assessed as a new visitor.

The point of a multiple entry visa is that is they allow someone to visit Canada multiple times. However entry into Canada is never guaranteed - whether you are allowed in and for how long is up to the official you encounter at the border.

 

[scylla]

Just to add - if you have sponsored him using the inland application process, he shouldn't leave Canada until he has PR. If he leaves and is refused re-entry, this will cancel his sponsorship application since he is no longer in Canada.

 

[PMM]

Hi

Just to add - if you have sponsored him using the inland application process, he shouldn't leave Canada until he has PR. If he leaves and is refused re-entry, this will cancel his sponsorship application since he is no longer in Canada.

It appears that if the OP entered Canada on a multiple entry TRV which is now expired. So if s/he leaves Canada, s/he will need to get a new TRV overseas. With a Canadian resident spouse that might prove very difficult.

 

[sajjad365]

Luval, my wife and I are in a similar situation. I am a citizen and she entered Canada on a multiple-entry visa in May 2014 as a visitor. We got married and she resides with me now. Her visa expired in July 2014 so just prior to that we applied for TRV extension to Vegreville, AB in June 2014. In August 2014, we received the extension, which expires next month (February 2015). At the bottom of the document it states "THIS DOES NOT AUTHORIZE RE-ENTRY".

We will be filing for another extension until we hear back from her Outland PR application via Kenya.

My research indicates that TRV allows your spouse (visitor) to simply stay in Canada until the TRV expires. If you leave the country, this TRV is null and void and upon re-entry you must possess a multiple-entry visitor visa issued from the homeland (which in her case is Kenya).

I wish you good luck. Please let us know what happens in your case.

 

[Jalex23]

Luval, my wife and I are in a similar situation. I am a citizen and she entered Canada on a multiple-entry visa in May 2014 as a visitor. We got married and she resides with me now. Her visa expired in July 2014 so just prior to that we applied for TRV extension to Vegreville, AB in June 2014. In August 2014, we received the extension, which expires next month (February 2015). At the bottom of the document it states "THIS DOES NOT AUTHORIZE RE-ENTRY".

You applied for an extension of the visitor status. A TRV can't be extended, it can only be renewed.

My research indicates that TRV allows your spouse (visitor) to simply stay in Canada until the TRV expires.

This is not correct. A TRV allows you entry to Canada, nothing more. Once a TRV is validated by the CBSA officer he will issue a visitor status to you (if that's the case). The visitor status is valid until its expiry date annotated in entry seal, visitor record or any other immigration document (six months if no expiry date is annotated).

If you leave the country, this TRV is null and void and upon re-entry you must possess a multiple-entry visitor visa issued from the homeland (which in her case is Kenya).

The TRV is null when 1) its expiry date is reached or 2) if it is a single entry, after its first use.

Upon re-entry you must possess a valid TRV, doesn't matter if it is multiple-entry or single-entry. Single entry TRVs may be used upon re-entry when travelling from CAN-USA, this is the only exception.

 

[sajjad365]

Jalex23, thank you for clarification here and on my other posts!