TRV Application Online Form Submissions

[Saloni.M]

Hello, I am applying online for my TRV (Visitor Visa) Application. I have uploaded the documents specified in the documents checklist, which are:

1. IMM5257 (Application for Visitor Visa)

2. IMM5707 (Family Information Form)

3. Travel History ( I had lived in the United States from 2009 to 2012 on an H4 visa ie as a dependant on my mother's H1 visa. We left willingly and were not deported. In the three years I was there I completed my 9th,10th and 11th grades in high school in the US): I uploaded the scanned visa page from my old passport as well as the page with all the entry and exit stamps

4. Passport : Uploaded current passport pag as per spcified requirement

5. Digital Photo: Uploaded a proper passport photo according to the given size specifications

6. Schedule1: Application for TRV made outside Canada

and lastly the one document I have not uploaded yet:

7. Letter Of Explanation.

Now my main question lies in the Letter Of Explanation. As you can see, within the document checklist itself they do not ask you to upload any sort of financial proof or any travel arrangements proof.
So my questions are :

1. Do you have to attach your financial proof as well as travel proof ( I have already booked a ticket for the 11th of April to the 30th of April round trip ) to the LOE itself? As in do you insert scanned images of those documents into your LOE's word file ( or merge the PDF of those images into your LOE pdf ? )

2. I am also a college student, but I will be completing my final semester exams just before I fly ( this whole trip is a bit of an after undergrad trip). However, I will not have gotten my results or my degree yet. Do I just attach/insert the images of my latest transcripts to the LOE file?

3. I will be staying with a friend ( whose name and address I declared in the IMM5257) but I mentioned in the LOE that even though I will be staying with her, I will be completely financially independent from her. Is this a reasonable explanation? ( I do not want to take a letter of invitation from her since she herself just graduated from college and doesn't have a properly stable job yet)

4. As for proving familial ties, is attaching the scanned images of my birth certificate and/or the family ledger enough?


Any help will be greatly appreciated

 

[bellaluna]

Hello, I am applying online for my TRV (Visitor Visa) Application. I have uploaded the documents specified in the documents checklist, which are:

1. IMM5257 (Application for Visitor Visa)

2. IMM5707 (Family Information Form)

3. Travel History ( I had lived in the United States from 2009 to 2012 on an H4 visa ie as a dependant on my mother's H1 visa. We left willingly and were not deported. In the three years I was there I completed my 9th,10th and 11th grades in high school in the US): I uploaded the scanned visa page from my old passport as well as the page with all the entry and exit stamps

4. Passport : Uploaded current passport pag as per spcified requirement

5. Digital Photo: Uploaded a proper passport photo according to the given size specifications

6. Schedule1: Application for TRV made outside Canada

and lastly the one document I have not uploaded yet:

7. Letter Of Explanation.

Now my main question lies in the Letter Of Explanation. As you can see, within the document checklist itself they do not ask you to upload any sort of financial proof or any travel arrangements proof.
So my questions are :

1. Do you have to attach your financial proof as well as travel proof ( I have already booked a ticket for the 11th of April to the 30th of April round trip ) to the LOE itself? As in do you insert scanned images of those documents into your LOE's word file ( or merge the PDF of those images into your LOE pdf ? )

2. I am also a college student, but I will be completing my final semester exams just before I fly ( this whole trip is a bit of an after undergrad trip). However, I will not have gotten my results or my degree yet. Do I just attach/insert the images of my latest transcripts to the LOE file?

3. I will be staying with a friend ( whose name and address I declared in the IMM5257) but I mentioned in the LOE that even though I will be staying with her, I will be completely financially independent from her. Is this a reasonable explanation? ( I do not want to take a letter of invitation from her since she herself just graduated from college and doesn't have a properly stable job yet)

4. As for proving familial ties, is attaching the scanned images of my birth certificate and/or the family ledger enough?


Any help will be greatly appreciated

Strange you didn’t have slots for financial and travel docs...it must have been the way you answered the questionnaire. You can change your answer to have the slot appear, or you can do exactly as you plan and merge all the documentation you stated into one PDF file in the LOE slot. No difference how you submit, just as long as you include them all.

 

[Saloni.M]

Strange you didn’t have slots for financial and travel docs...it must have been the way you answered the questionnaire. You can change your answer to have the slot appear, or you can do exactly as you plan and merge all the documentation you stated into one PDF file in the LOE slot. No difference how you submit, just as long as you include them all.

Yeah, you're right, I had selected Yes for the part of the questionnaire that asked " Do you have a valid United States (U.S.) visa, or have legally traveled to the U.S. in the past 10 years? This includes any family member you may be traveling with at this time "

I did live and travel to the US on the H4 visa like I mentioned between 2009-2012, so I picked yes for the answer. The visa isn't valid now though but since the question said Valid visa OR have legally traveled tot he US in the last 10 years, I figured yes was the correct answer.

However, as soon as I changed that answer to a No I was presented with questions about my financial and travel proofs. I suppose in this case it's just better to keep the answer as a Yes (since I did, in fact, hold a valid US Visa and travel there in the last 10 years), and then just upload the financial and travel proofs as scanned images in the pdf/ word file.

It does lead me to think though, do they actually not need the financial and travel proofs for a Canadian TRV at all if you've traveled to the US in the last 10 years on a valid visa? It certainly seems to be the case.

 

[bellaluna]

Yeah, you're right, I had selected Yes for the part of the questionnaire that asked " Do you have a valid United States (U.S.) visa, or have legally traveled to the U.S. in the past 10 years? This includes any family member you may be traveling with at this time "

I did live and travel to the US on the H4 visa like I mentioned between 2009-2012, so I picked yes for the answer. The visa isn't valid now though but since the question said Valid visa OR have legally traveled tot he US in the last 10 years, I figured yes was the correct answer.

However, as soon as I changed that answer to a No I was presented with questions about my financial and travel proofs. I suppose in this case it's just better to keep the answer as a Yes (since I did, in fact, hold a valid US Visa and travel there in the last 10 years), and then just upload the financial and travel proofs as scanned images in the pdf/ word file.

It does lead me to think though, do they actually not need the financial and travel proofs for a Canadian TRV at all if you've traveled to the US in the last 10 years on a valid visa? It certainly seems to be the case.

Not sure—depending on your passport, perhaps there are programs where you don’t have to submit financials if you traveled to the US. I never came across that question, or it might be a new thing. But yes definitely safer to upload financials in any case.

 

[Saloni.M]

Not sure—depending on your passport, perhaps there are programs where you don’t have to submit financials if you traveled to the US. I never came across that question, or it might be a new thing. But yes definitely safer to upload financials in any case.

So I just read up on it and it seems that there is this new Can+ program that applies to Indians and Mexicans, the main advantages to which are apparently:

1. high success rate
2. less paper work ( ie no need for financial proofs)
3.10 years multiple visas
4.Visa approval within 5 working days

This was put in place in 2014.

I think I will still attach my flight ticket invoices and my financial proofs just in case, I'm glad to know that they aren't really necessary and won't really be grounds for visa denial ( mostly ) and my chances of approval are better

Thank you so much your answers but also your help in leading me to make those realizations about that questionnaire that then led to me finding out about this Can+ program.