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Chucklesg
  5/24/2018 11:38 EST

What is the “secret”to getting a Canadian tourist visa? My fiancé is from Colombia, has a US tourist visa, and we want to go up to Alaska and BC in our RV. I have tried the online process but no response from the Canadian Immigration.

regnatarajan
  5/24/2018 13:46 EST

I have just been through that exact process. My woman is Colombian and we got her a 10 year tourist visa to Canada without any issues at all. We followed the steps on the site, had our appointment at the embassy in Bogotá, got approved, dropped her passport off at the private company they use to print/issue the visa, and then picked up her passport a week later with the visa in place.

This is definitely not a process where you call someone at the Canadian embassy and they talk to you and walk you through the steps. You MUST go to the website and follow the steps, fill in all the forms, get an application number and so on. There's no help desk. If you do the steps they outline, the process is straightforward. Not simple or easy, but straightforward.

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Chucklesg
  5/24/2018 15:08 EST

Thanks Reg. We are in the US so going to Bogota won't work. I followed everything on the online process, was assigned a "personal reference code, but there seems not to be any next step. You are supposed to get the "application guide" but it will not open! I have tried this for weeks, I got an email with a phone number, and when you call it, a message says no known number! The Canandian process is worse than the US!

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