Applying on paper for specific situations

Get your documents ready

Before you apply, make sure you need a super visa. We won’t refund your application fee if you apply for the wrong type of visa.

Local visa office instructions

Get your local visa office instructions by selecting the country or territory from which you’ll be applying.

Answer a few questions to get the next steps for your situation.

Filling out the form

If you’re having trouble filling out the application, the information below may help.

Personal details

If you don’t have a family name on your passport or travel document, enter all your given names in the family name field and leave the given name field blank.

If you don’t have a given name on your passport or travel document, leave this field blank.

Check “Yes” to Have you used another name in the past, if you’ve ever used any other name, including your

• birth name
• maiden name
• married name
• nickname

If you don’t know your date of birth, use * (star sign or asterisk) to fill in the spaces for the year, month or day.

If you’re not a citizen of the country or territory where you’re applying, you must send proof of your legal status in the country or territory you live in with your application.

If you’re in a common-law union, you must also request and fill out the Statutory Declaration of Common-Law Union (IMM 5409) form and include it with your application.

If you’re married, you must send a photocopy of your marriage licence or certificate with your application.

Travel document details

There must be at least one blank page other than the last page available on your passport so we can stamp it.

Contact information

All correspondence will go to the mailing address you provide unless you provide an email address.

If you give us an email address, make sure you check your email regularly. Any emails we send you will end in

• “@cic.gc.ca”,
• “@canada.ca”, or
• “@international.gc.ca”

Add these to your safe senders list in your email and check the junk mail folder in case important emails get filtered.

If your email address does not work or no longer exists, we’ll communicate with you by mail only.

Using a representative

If you want to use a representative to apply for you, you must

• give us their mailing addresses in this section
• fill out the Use of a Representative (IMM 5476) form

Details of visit to Canada

Select “Super visa – Parents and grandparents” as the purpose of your visit to Canada.

Enter the approximate dates you’ll enter or leave Canada if you don’t know the exact dates.

Certify your photocopied documents

If you need to photocopy documents for your application, you must get a certified true copy.

To have a photocopy of a document certified, an authorized person must compare the original document to the photocopy and must print all of the following on the photocopy:

• “I certify that this is a true copy of the original document”
• the name of the original document
• the date of the certification
• the name of the authorized person
• their official position or title and
• their signature

Who can certify copies

Only authorized people can certify copies.

In Canada:

• a notary public
• a commissioner of oaths or
• a commissioner of taking affidavits

Authority to certify varies by province and territory. Check with your local provincial or territorial authorities to learn who has the authority to certify.

Outside Canada:

• a notary public

Authority to certify international documents varies by country. Check with your local authorities to learn who has the authority to certify in your country.

Who can’t certify copies

You or your family member can’t certify copies of documents for your application. This means that your documents can’t be certified by any of the following people:

• yourself
• parent
• guardian
• sibling
• spouse
• common-law partner or conjugal partner
• grandparent
• child
• aunt
• uncle
• niece
• nephew
• first cousin