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- Thread starter Parthkumar Patel
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Super visa for parents from India
Applied Super visa : 25th August
Completed : Upfront Medical
Completed Biometric : 3rd September 2025
Medical passed : 25th October 2025
Applied Super visa : 25th August
Completed : Upfront Medical
Completed Biometric : 3rd September 2025
Medical passed : 25th October 2025
There are threads by month for supervisas. Here is the August thread.
Those are separate for each month, I want to have all applicants on one thread so we can predict timelines from the earlier months.
Super visa parents
Applied Super visa : 25th August
Completed : Upfront Medical before application
Completed Biometric : 3rd September 2025
Medical passed : 25th October 2025
Passport Request : 1 December 2025
Applied Super visa : 25th August
Completed : Upfront Medical before application
Completed Biometric : 3rd September 2025
Medical passed : 25th October 2025
Passport Request : 1 December 2025
My mom’s Supervisa is expiring next year due to passport expiry. I am planning her travel to India, renew passport and apply for new super visa.
Any issues with that? Also being on super visa, she stayed here for few years. Which is entirely legal. Can it impact her new visa application? Anything I should be aware or careful of?
Any issues with that? Also being on super visa, she stayed here for few years. Which is entirely legal. Can it impact her new visa application? Anything I should be aware or careful of?
If she has already spent multiple years visiting Canada she should plan on returning home for a longer period of time and reestablishing her ties to India before applying for a new supervisa and attempting to visit Canada again. She remains a visitor in Canada and should be able to show that she has strong ties to India and is not attempting to make Canada her permanent home. If her visit expires next year she can also attempt to extend her visit via visitor record if she has a new passport that is not expiring soon. If approved she would still have to return home and reestablish her ties to India before applying for another supervisa and attempting to visit Canada again.
Thanks. IRCC is promoting Supervisa as an alternate to PGP which isn’t accepting new applicants since 2020. And Supervisa a valid method for a stay upto 5 years. So it’s sad to see that they are looking for ties to India based on stay. Quite contradictory.
But I got your point.
They aren’t promoting it as a replacement for PGP. It is an option for parents to visit for longer periods of time than other visitors if parents are able to secure and pay for supervisa insurance given that many parents will not be able to be sponsored especially within a certain time frame. It has never been promoted or a guarantee of a permanent move to Canada. Parents on supervisas are required to return home and typically need to have longterm plans to live in their home country when/if they no longer qualify for supervisa insurance or need access to healthcare on a regular basis. Sponsorship of parents and grandparents was never guaranteed. I do think the government made a big mistake increasing the length of visit to 5+ years and in the past it has been relatively easy to extend visits because many have interpreted this a permanent move. Many are shocked because more supervisa applications and extensions are being refused because people have not made longterm plans for their parents in their home countries. Sone are attempting to renin without status and/or also applied for H&C for their parents because PGP EOI is closed. A large number of those applications are now being refused and H&C program will likely face major changes once bill c-12 passes. The reality is that parent sponsorship is not guaranteed and neither is the ability to visit for long periods of time. You should be making longterm plans for your parent in India while they also attempt to visit you in Canada.
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