The 10th or 17th-largest economy in the world and one of the world’s wealthiest nations presents a host of investment and business opportunities to entrepreneurs and investors all across the world. Merchandising opportunities, interact with Canadian business counterparts to explore investment options, and participate in trade seminars, foreign nationals must obtain a Business Visitor Visa to Canada.

If Individuals are planning to pay a visit to Canada for a short duration are considered for a business visitor visa:

• Applicants must explore opportunities in order to grow their trading activities,
• Applicants must invest in a Canadian business, or
• Applicants must advance trade and commerce relationships in the country.

Individuals must demonstrate as a business visitor, that:

• Applicants should not have intentions of entering the Canadian labor market,
• Applicants must plan to travel to the Canadian nation for a period less than six months,
• Applicants must have documents to support their tourist visitor visa application
• Applicants’ main workplace, and source of income lies outside the geographical boundaries of Canada, and
• Applicants must duly meet Canada’s basic entry requirements, i.e.
• Applicants must have a valid travel document, such as a passport,
• Applicants must plan to leave Canada at the end of their visit,
• Applicants must have enough funds to support their stay and return journey, and
• Applicants must do not have a security, criminal or health risk to Canadian residents.

Cross-border business

Business visitor visa includes Cross – border business activities that can be undertaken are as follows:-

• Candidate must make a purchase of Canadian goods and/or services for an international government or business,
• Candidate must give for the purpose of managing after-sales service
• Candidate must go for procuring orders for goods and/or services
• Candidate must attend training session at a Canadian company that has sold equipment or services to the visitor.
• Candidate must give training to employees of a branch located in Canada
• Candidate must go for conferences, meetings, conventions or for trade fairs
• Candidate must go as a trainee at a parent company nestled in Canada that the visitor work’s for in his/her native nation,

Apply to Travel

An individual needs to apply for an eTA (Electronic Travel Authorization) or a visitor visa in order to apply for a Business Visitor visa, to travel to Canada. You need to find out if you need an eTA or a visa.

ETA criteria:

• An individual must obtain the travel document when he/she plans to visit Canada. Try not tp apply at the last moment.
• An individual must travel to Canada with the same passport used for obtaining an eTA.

An individual must send certain documents with his/her application to the immigration office, in order to need a visitor visa to visit the Canadian nation, which are as follows:

• 24-hour contact details
• An invitation letter.

Individuals can be verified that they are employed to travel to Canada and for that they may also need identification proofs or cards which.

Note: As per the North American Free Trade Agreement, a U.S. or Mexican national can also participate in other activities such as marketing, research and general services.

Admissibility to Canada

The immigration office reviews the submitted applications of individuals for visa, to ensure it is complete and has all the relevant documents attached. Individuals may be asked to follow the following procedure, if the application is complete:

• Applicants must appear for a medical examination to prove that they are in good health to travel to Canada
• Applicants must obtain a policy certificate stating that they do not have any criminal records
• Applicants must appear for an interview at the Canadian immigration office.

In case an application is rejected, the applicant will be duly informed by the immigration officials along with the reason for refusal of the visa application. Individuals can apply again for a visitor visa to travel to the Canadian nation, while there is no formal appeal process.