What are you trying to do?
Each route below leads to the rules that actually apply, current as at the date shown on the page, and tools to check where you stand.
Immigrate permanently
Become a permanent resident through work, skills, a business, or family. Federal and provincial routes.
Explore → bWork temporarily
Work permits, employer supported and open, and the routes from temporary work to permanent residence. One question decides the cost and the time, being whether the job needs a labour market impact assessment.
Explore → cStudy in Canada
Study permits, the intake cap and attestation letters, proving the money, and the work permit rules that decide whether the program leads anywhere.
Explore → dVisit Canada
Visitor visas and electronic travel authorisations, the Super Visa for a parent, and the one date that separates extending your stay from restoring it.
Explore → eBring your family
Sponsor a spouse or partner, a dependent child, or a parent or grandparent, and the bars that stop a sponsorship before the relationship is even read.
Explore → fSeek protection
Refugee claims, humanitarian and compassionate applications, and pre removal risk assessments. Two time limits introduced in 2025 decide eligibility before the merits are considered.
Explore → gBecome Canadian
Since December 2025 many people born abroad are citizens already and do not know it. The presence rule, the prohibitions, and what citizenship changes.
Explore → hSomething went wrong
A refusal, a medical or criminal admissibility problem, an appeal, or status that has expired. Most of these have a named mechanism attached to them.
Explore →If more than one of these fits, that is normal. A person on a work permit thinking about permanent residence is in at least two of them,
and the order you do things in usually matters more than which one you pick.