My mother is on a super visa which expired but she still has two years of stay left (counting 5 yrs from 2023). I want to re-apply for a new super visa and want to do so online and once i hear from the embassy, she can return to our home country and complete the process. I read Super visa can only be applied from outside Canada. Would there be an issue with my approach? and also officially nothing is guaranteed but if sponsors income, citizenship etc. all is in order is there any probability of a decline? Thanks in advance
Super Visa re-application
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This is not a good plan for a variety of reasons. She needs to be abroad to apply but she also should only apply after she has spent time reestablishing her ties to her home country. A supervisa is not meant to allow parents to move to Canada and parents are expected to return home after their visit time expires, if they are not able to secure supervisa insurance, if they can’t pay for supervisa insurance, etc. Your mother doesn’t need a valid supervisa to remain visiting Canada at this point. If she leaves Canada and tries to reenter Canada right away she may be denied entry because it will appear as if she is trying to live in Canada. Given the limited amount of parents who will be able to secure PR you need to be planning for her to return to her home country and a longterm plan for her care there as well.
Super visa applicant has to be outside Canada at the point the application is submitted, not just by the time a decision comes back. Applying from inside Canada is listed as a disqualifying condition for this specific product. So the risk is in the submission step itself — the safer sequence is for your mother to travel home first and only then start and submit the application from there, not the other way around.It's also worth separating two different clocks. The stretch of time you're describing is her authorized stay from the 2023 entry, which is how long she's allowed to remain in Canada from that visit — it isn't the same as whether her visa is still valid for crossing the border again. A super visa's validity for re-entry is bounded by her passport's expiry and by how long ago her biometrics were taken — either of those could be what's actually lapsed here, so it's worth checking both rather than assuming which one it is. Neither of those two clocks extends the other.
