Finally! Canadian VISA

Hey guys! Here I am again and with good news. I finally received my Canadian VISA. :mrgreen: And as I promised earlier, I’ll explain here how long the process took and, believe me or not, even with all the anxiety I went through, it took only A TOTAL OF 28 DAYS. Whaaaat?!! It seemed so much longer. :lol:Ok! Get your piece of paper and write down what each of these steps and the time taken, so you can schedule when you’re applying for your visa as well.

Excluding the time it takes to organize your documents and the initial Game Design Portfolio to be submitted and reviewed by the VFS itself and then to be approved, pass the oral exam and receive the school documents at home, an average of total time may be based on the times mentioned above. As the time it takes initially may differ from person to person, my post here is based on the moment that you already have the letter of acceptance of Vancouver Film School. And, from what I’ve been reading in the Internet, the total period is on average one month to receive the Canadian Student Visa and Study Permit.

12 days: From the moment that everything was properly sent to the VAC and went through the process of analyzing the forms by the Embassy, before being returned to the VAC with the request and application form for medical examination;

5 days: There were over five days – three working days – for the results of the medical examination to be received and finally sent via FedEx to Trinidad & Tobago;

11 days: Was the time it took the medical examinations to be received in Trinidad & Tobago, be analysed and sent back to Brazil, where I could finally get my Passport with the Canadian Visa in the VAC of São Paulo.

Remember that if you, like me, intend to be able to travel freely around the regions next to Canada, such as the United States, you will be required to obtain the Multiple Entry Visa, which allows you entry as many times you want during the duration of your Visa. I believe that usually the Students Visas with a duration of at least one year are already automatically requested as Multiple Entries, but it’s worth taking a little time and check it for sure to avoid any potential problems. To give an idea of how Canadian Visa looks, I ask you search on the Internet. For safety reasons I’d rather not put a picture of my Visa here on the site.

My next step now is to obtain a U.S. Visa. I’ll not go into much detail about it now, because the focus of my site is not in the United States. But to make a brief summary, the intent of the U.S. visa is 100% in order to visit American cities such as Seattle, that is just a few hours from Vancouver where product prices are much cheaper, because of the prices being in U.S. dollars and not from a tourist city such as Vancouver. Also because with the U.S. Visa in hand, I do not run therisk of problems of any flight connection in a U.S. city. For more details about the U.S. Visa, please go the official website of the American Embassy.

For now that’s it, folks! If you have any questions feel free to ask me through the comment section of the site. And stay tuned, soon I will create a post talking about housing programs in Vancouver, offered by Vancouver Film School itself, and other methods for renting an apartment/house in the city. It really is something that is drawn out and complicated for me right now.

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