Applying to visit Canada
The visitor visa application, the schedule and family form that go with it, and the checklist the department publishes for it.
Somebody applying from outside Canada, or a person in Canada helping a relative apply. This is the most downloaded application form in the corpus.
The application itself
Long, and almost entirely about facts you already know: names, dates, addresses, passport details, where you have lived and worked.
Family information
Filed alongside the application rather than instead of anything in it.
The document checklist
The department's own list of what goes in the package. Worth reading before filling anything in, because it says what you will need to have to hand.
If someone is helping you
A representative is declared on a form of its own, and a separate one authorises the department to release your information to them.
Worth knowing
We do not say whether an application will be approved, what an officer will weigh, or whether you need a visa at all rather than an electronic travel authorisation. Those are questions for IRCC or a licensed representative. We type what you tell us into the form you name.
These forms are XFA documents, which is why they behave oddly in a browser and have to be opened in Adobe Reader. The fields still have names, and filling them by name is exactly what this does.
Fill in the copy you have
Already downloaded it? Bring that file and we'll fill it in. It works the same for a form nobody publishes: a benefits enrolment, an employer's payroll form, anything with boxes in it.