Visa stamp

[pdileepan]

Hi, My brother-in-law holding Indian passport is currently visiting us in the U.S.A. He has applied online for a Canadian visitor visa to be able to visit Niagara Falls and Toronto. He has uploaded the completed application with all the necessary documents and has completed the biometrics as well. The question we have is, if the visa application is approved where would the passport be stamped with the visa. If we can do this in person in New York city we would like to visit our relatives in New York city and wait for the final decision on his application. We request your guidance.

Thank you, Dileep

 

[k.h.p.]

The suggestion will be the closest location to where he submitted his application based on the address provided, in most cases. Sometimes as of late PPRs have been directed to mail their passport to the LA consulate, though.

 

[pdileepan]

Our's is Tennessee address which means NY City is the closest location. If the visa application is approved is it possible to just show up at Niagara Falls and get the passport stamped at the entry crossing? May be not, but just want to check just in case that is possible.

 

[k.h.p.]

Our's is Tennessee address which means NY City is the closest location. If the visa application is approved is it possible to just show up at Niagara Falls and get the passport stamped at the entry crossing? May be not, but just want to check just in case that is possible.

No. POEs do not affix counterfoils like this.

 

[pdileepan]

So, if the application is approved and NY City is the suggested office, would we be able to go to their office and get the passport stamped in person? Or, mailing the passport is the only way?

 

[k.h.p.]

So, if the application is approved and NY City is the suggested office, would we be able to go to their office and get the passport stamped in person? Or, mailing the passport is the only way?

They cannot go and have the counterfoil affixed in person, no.

You submit your passport to a visa application centre. You can certainly submit it in person, but with VFS, that typically means waiting in a very long lineup. They take your passport from you, ask you if you want to pay extra to have it couriered back to you, and then charge you for their services. VFS then, at the end of the day, couriers your passport, along with all the others it received for Canada visa processing, to the Canadian consulate. A few days to a week or two later, the passport has the counterfoil affixed at the consulate, and then is returned to the VFS office, at which point it will be couriered back to you if you paid for that service, or it will be ready for your pickup.

There is no timeline on counterfoil affixing in a passport. It could be three days, it could be three weeks.

Sadly, the moral of this story - your brother should have applied for the Canadian visa at home before he left for the US.

 

[pdileepan]

Thanks for the detailed response, I appreciate it.