multiple entry visa

[malcesine]

Does anyone explain what exactly is a multiple-entry visa?

[Leon]

It's a visit visa that you can use multiple times during the time it's valid.  You could also have a single entry visa that can only be used for one entry.  For example, you want to make more than one trip to Canada in one year or you want to go to Canada and be able to go to the US and back to Canada, you want a multiple entry visa.  If you are going to make one trip to Canada, stay a while, not go anywhere else, go back home and not come back to Canada for a while, you would be fine to get a single entry visa which is cheaper.

[malcesine]

Thanks Leon & Wolverine!

A second question pertaining to the same "multiple entry visa".  Won't Immigration be suspicious if some keeps entering and exiting Canada?  I thought they frowned upon someone who comes back again.  Or do I not understand the "multiple entry visa"? 

[eduardoF]

Suppose you move to Canada. Now suppose you have rich relatives who want to come visit you often - birthdays, christmas, vacations, etc. for them, it makes more sense to get a multiple entry visa.

Another - admitedly unlikely - situation: you take an "american continent" tour: canada, then down to the US, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, then all the way back up to Canada - you get a multiple entry visa, because you'll be entering canada twice.

A third situation: you are a foreign student in Canada, but you miss home so you go there for a week or so once every four months. You should get a multiple entry visa.

[malcesine]

Thanks EduardoF!

you've been a great help!

[malcesine]

Hi eduardoF!

If someone comes here as a visitor (visa-exempt country) and decides they want to study for a few months (say less than the 6-month limit) could they get a multiple-entry visa and still be able to come back and visit more or study more?  Or do multiple-entry visa just work for those who are studying full-time or working temporarily here in Canada?

[PMM]

Hi

Hi eduardoF!

If someone comes here as a visitor (visa-exempt country) and decides they want to study for a few months (say less than the 6-month limit) could they get a multiple-entry visa and still be able to come back and visit more or study more?  Or do multiple-entry visa just work for those who are studying full-time or working temporarily here in Canada?

Multiple entry TRVs are for non visa exempt countries only.

PMM

[malcesine]

Thanks PMM!

[Barbados]

I need a clarity about Multiple entry visa, if you date of visa expiry is June 25th, 2009 and the person enter Canada on the 22nd July, he will be given 6 months stay? does that 6 months still means that the person can travel in and out of Canada within that 6 months