Fiancee's visitor visa expires 10 days before the return flight

[Rup]

My fiancee has applied for Canadian visitor visa on November 8, 2013 to Delhi embassy with my sponsored letter for financial support as fiance and she received approved multiple entry visitor visa with stamped passport on November 13, 2013. Expiry date of the visa is February 28, 2014. But she has requested in the application to provide her with visitor visa till March 10, 2014 as I already booked her return ticket from Montreal to India on March 10, 2013. She is doing job in India and She will join her job after her allotted period of leave from her employer. Moreover the purpose of her applying the visitor visa is to visit me after our marriage. I am currently staying in Montreal, Canada on work visa and working as a Post-doctoral researcher and we are getting married on January 21, 2014. Accordingly I will be in India on January 9 and I already booked my returned ticket from India to Montreal on February 10, 2014. On my way back to Montreal she will accompany me to Montreal in the same return flight on February 10, 2014. So, we booked flight and planned everything accordingly. As her visitor visa will expire on February 28, 2014, so it is difficult for us to reschedule our trip. Cancellation of air ticket will cause no refund and her trip to Montreal will be shortened to around two weeks. She has applied for the visa little bit earlier because I was aware of the fact that Immigration Canada usually approves visitor visa for minimum duration of six months. I have tried to contact Delhi embassy, Canada Immigration by email to extend her visa for few more days before she leaves for Montreal. They informed me that the dates mentioned on the visa indicate the entry dates i.e she needs to reach Canada before the visa expires. The duration of her stay in Canada will be determined by the officer at the port of entry. Kindly let me know if port officer increase her duration of stay by few more days by stamp in the passport whether there would be any problem during her boarding to return flight (Lufthansa via Munich) and transit through other countries (Montreal-Munich-India) as by that time her visa will be already expired. If I apply for her extension of visa as spouse (as we will have our marriage certificate at that time) while she is in Canada, it will take long time and she will not get visa before March 10, 2014. She will not be able to join her job in time. Kindly suggest me the possible ways to avoid any inconvenience. Thank you.

 

[spyro02]

There is no issue at all. A visa serves only 2 purposes. 1) It provides the bearer with the right to travel to Canada. 2) It serves as the application form to request admission to enter Canada at the Port of Entry. If this is a single-entry visa, it will become completely worthless as soon as the CBSA has stamped the passport. A visa is NOT a legal status document inside Canada.
Once your fiancée has received her admission stamp in her passport it will state a different date, the date by which she has to leave Canada (usually 6 months later). Once the CBSA officer has stamped her passport, she can enter Canada and remain until said date on her stamp.
Summary:
Visa expiration: the day by which your fiancée must arrive at a port of entry, be admitted to enter Canada and actually enter Canada by exiting the port of entry.
Admission stamp expiration: The date by which your fiancée must leave Canada, unless otherwise recorded on another status document.

Oh, and Lufthansa nor Canada immigration won't stop anyone from leaving even if their status already expired. They are happed if as many overstays as possible leave voluntarily.

 

[Rup]

There is no issue at all. A visa serves only 2 purposes. 1) It provides the bearer with the right to travel to Canada. 2) It serves as the application form to request admission to enter Canada at the Port of Entry. If this is a single-entry visa, it will become completely worthless as soon as the CBSA has stamped the passport. A visa is NOT a legal status document inside Canada.
Once your fiancée has received her admission stamp in her passport it will state a different date, the date by which she has to leave Canada (usually 6 months later). Once the CBSA officer has stamped her passport, she can enter Canada and remain until said date on her stamp.
Summary:
Visa expiration: the day by which your fiancée must arrive at a port of entry, be admitted to enter Canada and actually enter Canada by exiting the port of entry.
Admission stamp expiration: The date by which your fiancée must leave Canada, unless otherwise recorded on another status document.

Oh, and Lufthansa nor Canada immigration won't stop anyone from leaving even if their status already expired. They are happed if as many overstays as possible leave voluntarily.

Thanks for your reply. She got multiple entry visitor visa. Will there be any problem during her transit through other countries?

 

[scylla]

Thanks for your reply. She got multiple entry visitor visa. Will there be any problem during her transit through other countries?

Each country has its own visa requirement and a Canadian visa does not allow her to enter other countries. If she is transiting through other countries, you will have to investigate if a transit visa is required.

 

[spyro02]

If she is transiting through Europe, she usually won't need a transit visa and she will never see immigration before continuing her travel to/from Canada. Some nationalities do, however, need a transit visa according to regulations (but I have never seen it being enforced by airline staff).
Airline staff does not do a document verification on departure from Canada. So if she is transiting in Munich she can just go straight ahead to her next gate. No one is going to stop her as long as she remains in the transit lounge, is not trying to enter Germany or causes unnecessary attention.