🇨🇦 Canada: sources & references

• CRA - Non-residents of Canada
• Tax regime

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• IRCC - Public policy on visitor work permits (remote work for a foreign employer)

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2026-09-20

• IRCC - Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)
• Application fees
• Processing time

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2026-09-20

CAD 100 visitor-visa (TRV) fee applies to nationals who need a visa, plus a CAD 85 biometrics fee (CAD 185 total). Nationals of visa-exempt countries arriving by air instead need only the eTA, CAD 7. Which route applies depends on nationality - confirm on the IRCC eTA/visa-exempt country list.

• IRCC Help Centre - how long can I stay in Canada as a visitor
• Visa duration

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Most visitors are authorized up to 6 months per entry at the border officer's discretion (sometimes less, occasionally more); the day you must leave by is stamped in your passport or shown in your eTA/visa record. Staying longer requires applying to extend visitor status from inside Canada before the authorized period ends - not a renewal in the country-hopping sense. RE-CHECKED 2026-08-23: IRCC's own digital-nomad-specific operational bulletin ('Temporary residents: Digital nomads', 2026-05-26) states a digital nomad 'only needs visitor status to relocate to Canada for up to 6 months at a time' - directly corroborating this 6-month figure from what appears to be the bulletin's own language (search-indexed excerpt; canada.ca itself blocked to direct fetch). A separately-circulating claim that CBSA officers now have general discretion to grant visitors up to 1 year per entry (dated 2026-01-05) remains reported only via immigration-consultancy sources, not a primary IRCC/CBSA page or mainstream press - stays unpromoted, and this finding argues against it applying to digital-nomad status specifically even if true for other visitor categories.

• IRCC - Visitor visa: how to apply
• Family rules
• Health insurance

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Spouse and children can accompany you as visitors, but each family member generally needs their own visitor visa or eTA and must independently show sufficient funds and ties.

• IRCC - Temporary residents: Digital nomads (operational bulletin)

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2026-05-26

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