Paperwork, by what you are doing
A form page answers what a form number is. These answer the question people actually type: what do I have to fill in, and in what order. Every form named is linked, and every one of them is real.
Running a business
Hiring, registering, payroll, and the forms staff bring you to sign.
- Hiring your first employeeThe federal and provincial forms a Canadian small business fills in when it takes on staff, in the order they come up.
- Registering a business in CanadaThe federal number, the tax accounts that hang off it, and the authorisation that lets your accountant deal with the CRA for you.
- Payroll year end: the slips you issueEvery slip a small employer fills in each February, who gets which one, and the ones people forget until the deadline.
- The forms your employees bring you to signAn employer fills in part of these and the employee fills in the rest. Which part is yours, and what happens when the wrong section gets filled.
- Keeping your details current with the CRAAddress changes, authorising or cancelling a representative, closing an account you no longer use, and asking for relief.
- Hiring someone from outside CanadaThe applications a worker files, which of them a representative signs, and where the employer's part of the paperwork actually sits.
Coming to Canada
Visiting, studying, extending a stay, sponsoring family, becoming a citizen.
- Applying to visit CanadaThe visitor visa application, the schedule and family form that go with it, and the checklist the department publishes for it.
- Applying to study in CanadaThe study permit application, its checklist, the custodian declaration for a minor, and what changes once you are here.
- Extending your stay in CanadaThe forms for staying longer, changing the conditions on a permit, or moving between visitor, student and worker status while you are here.
- Sponsoring a family memberThe sponsorship application, the relationship evaluation, the declarations about a common-law union, and the checklists that go with each.
- Applying for Canadian citizenshipThe adult application, the certificate application, and the two checklists the department publishes for them.
Travelling
Passports, and taking children across a border.
- Renewing or applying for a passportWhich passport form is which: renewal against a first application, adult against child, inside Canada against abroad.
- Travelling with childrenThe consent letter Global Affairs recommends when a child travels without both parents, and the passport forms that go with a child's trip.
Tax time
Credits, employer declarations, and fixing a return you already filed.
Pensions
Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, and disability benefits.
At home
Renting out a property, and the paperwork that follows.
The ones that are not here
Most of what anybody fills in repeatedly is nobody's government form: a benefits enrolment, an insurer's evidence of insurability, a payroll deduction authorisation, a school's consent sheet. They are in no catalogue and never will be. Bring one and it is filled the same way, from a sentence describing your details.