Use ArriveCAN to enter Canada

Submit your information by creating an account and signing in online. Print or take a screenshot of your receipt and take it with you when you travel.

Submit your information before you leave and take a screenshot to show upon entry into Canada.

You can sign in online on any personal computing device, like those found in Internet cafés or libraries.

If you don't submit your information through ArriveCAN, you won’t be denied boarding but you may:

• face additional delays at the border for public health questioning
• be subject to enforcement action, which can range from verbal warnings to $1,000 fines

Travellers who are in transit to another country (and aren’t leaving the secure area at the airport) don’t need to submit their information through ArriveCAN.

You provide the following information in ArriveCAN:

• contact information, such as your name, date of birth, email address, phone number and travel document details
• travel details, such as your:
• date of arrival
• port of entry if you're entering by land or marine vessel or
• flight number, airport and airline if you're entering by air
• the purpose of your travel (such as exempt travel, work, study, family reunification or compassionate reasons)
• any symptoms you may be experiencing

For your quarantine plan, questions will include:

• whether you have a place to quarantine or isolate for 14 days
• the address of the place where you'll be staying during your quarantine or isolation period
• if there are people at increased risk from COVID-19 at that place who:
  • are 65 years or older
  • have underlying medical conditions
  • have compromised immune systems
• if it's a group living environment or houses multiple families, such as hostels, care facilities or living with roommates you can’t avoid 
• whether you'll have access to basic necessities without leaving quarantine, including water, food, medication and heat

The ArriveCAN mobile app saves your contact information (name, date of birth and travel document information) for travel at a later date.

If you're travelling for the purpose of exempt travel, you don't need to provide destination details or a quarantine plan.

Reporting depends on if you:

If you're travelling with others, you can include multiple travellers in your ArriveCAN submission.

As the primary traveller, you may provide travel information for yourself and for:

• your spouse or common law partner
• your children (or children for whom you have legal guardianship), aged 18 years or younger
• any other adult for whom you're a legal guardian

You can provide information for up to 8 travellers, including yourself, in a single submission. Use this when:

• you'll all stay together at the same address for the entire quarantine or isolation period and
• you have their permission to collect and share this information

If you’re travelling with a child whose only documentation is a birth certificate, you don’t need to submit their information in ArriveCAN. You’ll be provided with an alternative option at the Canadian border.

If you're not the traveller, you can submit travel information on behalf of others who may be unable to use ArriveCAN by:

• downloading the ArriveCAN app or 
• signing in online

Once you've submitted their information, print the receipt page or take a screenshot. Send it to the traveller to show to the border services officer. The traveller is responsible for ensuring they’re compliant with the requirements for entry into Canada. You don't need to be travelling with them.

You may be exempt from having to quarantine if you're entering Canada to perform essential work, such as:

• medical support
• essential services
• trade or transport
• cross-border work

If you’re exempt from quarantine, you don’t have to include a quarantine plan through ArriveCAN. However, you must still submit your contact information, travel details and any symptoms you may be experiencing. You don't need to provide symptom self-assessments after you enter Canada.

Find out if your travel is exempt.

ArriveCAN won’t confirm your exempt status. An ArriveCAN receipt shows that you’ve successfully provided your information. It doesn’t validate your eligibility to enter Canada or exempt travel status. Your exempt travel status will be determined at the border.

Meeting the conditions of a suitable quarantine plan

A Government of Canada official at Canadian ports of entry will determine if:

• you have suitable plans for quarantine or isolation
• you need to be transferred to a designated quarantine facility
• you’re able to use public transportation while in transit to your place of quarantine

If you arrive in Canada without a suitable quarantine plan, you’ll be asked to develop a quarantine plan within your means. Those that aren’t able to confirm a suitable quarantine plan may be required to quarantine or isolate at a designated quarantine facility.

Travellers must go directly to their place of quarantine or isolation immediately and stay there for the duration of their quarantine or isolation. While in transit, you must:

• practise physical distancing of 2 metres at all times
• avoid stops and contact with others while in transit
• if you have symptoms, use a private vehicle only, and don’t use public transportation such as aircraft, taxis or ride-share services
• if you don’t have symptoms, use a private vehicle if possible
• pay at the pump for gas and use drive through when you need food
• wear a suitable non-medical mask at all times, unless you’re alone in a private vehicle

Some provinces and territories have additional travel restrictions. For example, no non-essential travel into the province or limited access to certain regions. If federal and provincial or territorial guidelines differ, follow the strictest requirements.

The Government of Canada uses the information you provide in ArriveCAN:

• to verify or enforce compliance with the mandatory isolation order
• for public health follow up by the provinces and territories

When you enter Canada, you'll be told:

• how we'll verify that you're complying with the requirements
• possible consequences if you don't comply, such as enforcement actions and penalties

We may contact you during your mandatory quarantine/isolation period to verify that you're quarantining or isolating.

We may share your information with the RCMP and provincial and territorial law enforcement agencies for compliance and enforcement follow-up activities.