Canada refuses a large share of visitor visa applications, and most refusals trace back to documentation — not to bad luck. We fix the part you control.
A visa sticker in your passport that lets you travel to a Canadian port of entry and ask to be admitted as a visitor. Two things worth understanding upfront: the visa is not entry — a border officer makes the final call, usually admitting visitors for six months. And a visa can be issued for far longer than your trip; many Indian applicants receive a multiple-entry visa valid up to passport expiry or ten years.
| IRCC application fee | CAD $100 per person |
| Biometrics fee | CAD $85 per person |
| Family of 5+ applying together — fee cap | CAD $500 |
| Family of 2+ — biometrics cap | CAD $170 |
| TrueNorthGulf service fee | ₹ per applicant |
After you submit and pay, IRCC issues a Biometric Instruction Letter. From that date you have 30 days to give fingerprints and a photo at a Visa Application Centre.
Not when you submit online. Take three weeks to book a slot and you’ve added three weeks to your timeline for nothing. We book on the day your letter arrives.
Bengaluru and Mumbai can run one to two weeks out in peak season. Smaller centres are often faster — we’ll tell you if travelling is worth it.
Biometrics for temporary residence are valid 10 years. If you gave them in the last decade, you may not need to repeat them. Centres in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jalandhar, Kochi.
We won’t quote you a number. Processing times move constantly with volume and season, and any site giving you one figure is guessing. We show you IRCC’s own published estimate for India on the day you apply, and set your milestones against it. What we can say: the clock starts at biometrics, and peak season is slower. If your travel is fixed, apply early.
Most refusals cite paragraph 179(b) IRPR — the officer was not satisfied you would leave Canada at the end of your authorised stay. The refusal letter itself is generic ticked boxes. The reasoning sits in the officer’s internal GCMS notes.
“Tourism” with no itinerary, or a trip plan that doesn’t fit the leave you have or the money you hold.
Employment, business, property, dependents. Applicants under-document this constantly — a one-line HR letter is not evidence of a career.
A large deposit landing two weeks before you apply reads as arranged, not saved. Six months of a normal statement beats one impressive balance.
Name spelled differently across passport, PAN and bank records. Income on the form that doesn’t reconcile with the ITR. Unforced, common, avoidable.
The Super Visa allows parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens, permanent residents or registered Indians to visit for extended periods rather than the six months a standard visitor typically gets. It’s the right choice for a real stay — a winter, a grandchild’s first year. For six months or less, a regular visitor visa is simpler.
You can apply for a Super Visa while a parent-sponsorship application is pending. You don’t have to withdraw it.
This is where most Super Visa applications go wrong — and it goes wrong before anyone looks at a payslip, because the household count is broader than families expect.
Those last two catch families out constantly. A host whose spouse already hosts their own parents has a household of six, not three — and a completely different threshold.
| Family members | Minimum income (CAD) |
|---|---|
| 1 family member | $30,526 |
| 2 family members | $38,002 |
| 3 family members | $46,720 |
| 4 family members | $56,724 |
| 5 family members | $64,336 |
| 6 family members | $72,560 |
| 7 family members | $80,784 |
| Each additional member | add $8,224 |
Your host shows total income meeting the threshold in either of the two tax years before you apply. A strong year followed by a weaker one is fine — use the strong one. Proof is the CRA Notice of Assessment.
Your host shows at least 75% of the threshold in the year before you apply, and you add your own income to close the gap. New, and genuinely useful where the host falls slightly short.
The most common expensive mistake in the entire Super Visa process. Your policy must be from either a Canadian insurance company, or an insurer outside Canada that is authorized by OSFI under the Insurance Companies Act, appears on OSFI’s public list of federally regulated financial institutions, and issued the policy while doing insurance business in Canada.
Required, and it must be done by an IRCC-approved panel physician — not your family doctor, not a hospital of your choosing. Approved physicians practise in Bengaluru. Sequence matters: the medical has a validity window, and doing it too early or too late relative to submission causes avoidable problems. We schedule it against your timeline.
Anything not in English or French needs translation. If the translator isn’t Canadian-certified, you also need their sworn affidavit — and they cannot be your parent, sibling, spouse, grandparent, child, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or first cousin. Translations must reproduce all text including letterhead, fine print and stamps, in the same order.
A refusal is not a permanent bar and you can reapply. But reapplying with the same file usually produces the same result.
The most useful thing you can do first is request your GCMS notes — IRCC’s internal record of how your application was assessed, containing the officer’s actual comments rather than the boilerplate letter. We’ll show you how to request them, then review your previous file against them and build a checklist of exactly what needs to change.
If your Canada application is refused after we’ve prepared it, we review your GCMS notes and prepare your reapplication file at a reduced fee — % of our standard fee.
No. We are a document preparation and application-support service. Canadian law requires anyone paid to advise on or represent an immigration application to be licensed with the CICC or a Canadian law society. We are not, we don’t do that work, and we don’t claim otherwise. IRCC may return or refuse applications linked to unauthorized paid representatives — so before you pay anyone in India who says they’ll represent you to IRCC, search their name on the CICC public register. That includes checking us: you won’t find us, because we don’t do that work.
We won’t claim that, because we can’t prove it and neither can anyone else. A large share of refusals trace back to documentation problems — incomplete files, inconsistencies, missed deadlines, non-compliant insurance. We fix those. The officer’s assessment of your circumstances is not something we or anyone else can influence.
Yes, completely — and for straightforward cases you probably should. Our checklist is free precisely so you can. People pay us when their case has complications, when they’ve been refused before, when the paperwork volume is genuinely large (Super Visa), or when the cost of getting it wrong is a cancelled trip.
Not necessarily. Since 31 March 2026 there are two routes. Either your host meets the full threshold in either of the last two tax years — so a strong earlier year counts — or your host shows 75% of the threshold in the most recent year and you add your own income to close the gap.
Only if that insurer is OSFI-authorized, appears on OSFI’s public list, and issued the policy while doing insurance business in Canada — and the policy says so in writing. Most Indian travel insurance does not meet this, including policies marketed in India specifically as “Super Visa insurance”.
We don’t know and we won’t guess. We show you IRCC’s official published estimate for India on the day you apply and set your reminders against it. Processing starts when IRCC receives your biometrics, not when you submit online.
No. Nobody can. Treat any guarantee of a visa outcome as a reason to stop dealing with that company.
Tell us your case and we’ll tell you honestly whether you need us.