Canada Supervisa for Grandmother - visiting US - medical insurance requirement on return

[Arpitpatel]

Hi,
My grandmother came to Canada from India in July 2025 to visit on Supervisa, then she went on to visit her son, my uncle in USA in November 2025.
I purchased a supervisa insurance of one year that is valid until July 2026. She plan to come back from USA to Canada in Feb 2026. Do I need to purchase/extend supervisa insurance for her in order to bring her back to Canada? She may leave Canada in April/May 2026 to go back to India.
If anyone had a similar situation, can you please help? Any advise will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Arpit

 

[steaky]

Hi,
My grandmother came to Canada from India in July 2025 to visit on Supervisa, then she went on to visit her son, my uncle in USA in November 2025.
I purchased a supervisa insurance of one year that is valid until July 2026. She plan to come back from USA to Canada in Feb 2026. Do I need to purchase/extend supervisa insurance for her in order to bring her back to Canada? She may leave Canada in April/May 2026 to go back to India.
If anyone had a similar situation, can you please help? Any advise will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Arpit

I would have cancelled the insurance in November and buy again next month.

 

[Arpitpatel]

I would have cancelled the insurance in November and buy again next month.

Terms of the supervisa medical insurance is that you can cancel/refund only when insurer goes back to home country, which is India in my case and they would need boarding passes to prove that unfortunately. Hopefully these terms will change in the future as I found them to be exploitative in this specific case.

 

[canuck78]

Hi,
My grandmother came to Canada from India in July 2025 to visit on Supervisa, then she went on to visit her son, my uncle in USA in November 2025.
I purchased a supervisa insurance of one year that is valid until July 2026. She plan to come back from USA to Canada in Feb 2026. Do I need to purchase/extend supervisa insurance for her in order to bring her back to Canada? She may leave Canada in April/May 2026 to go back to India.
If anyone had a similar situation, can you please help? Any advise will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you,
Arpit

Yes you’ll need proof of the 1 year supervisa insurance to enter Canada. Would add that it will is important that your grandmother return home at a certain point. If she plans to alternate between the US and Canada there is good chance at a certain point either Canada or the US will be concerned she is not a visitor and won’t return home.