Canada Business Visa from Pakistan: Visitor Rules, Invitations and Documents

At a glance

What you are applying for

You’re in the right place if you are

• Buying Canadian goods or services

  Buyers purchasing Canadian goods or services for a Pakistani business.

• An exporter taking orders

  Exporters meeting Canadian customers and taking orders for goods or services.

• A delegate at a meeting or trade fair

  Delegates at meetings, conferences, conventions and trade fairs, including events registered with IRCC.

• Giving after-sales service

  Technicians giving after-sales service under a warranty or sales agreement.

• Training within your company's group

  Staff being trained by their Canadian parent company, training employees of their own company's Canadian branch, or being trained by a Canadian company that sold them equipment or services.

Wrong visa — take this route instead

• Tourism or visiting family.Canada visit visa guide
• Working for a Canadian company or its clients in Canada.Canada work visa guide
• Moving to Canada.Canada immigration guide

• Passport valid for at least six months from the date you plan to travel, plus old passports and previous visas
• Personal bank statements and FBR tax returns
• A short purpose-of-travel letter: who you will meet, where, when and why

• A letter of support from your company: your role, the purpose and dates of the trip, who pays, and that you stay on its payroll
• SECP registration, NTN, FBR returns and chamber of commerce membership
• Company bank statements
• Evidence of the Canadian business: contracts, purchase orders, correspondence — and, for after-sales service, the warranty or sales agreement

• A letter of invitation with your name, date of birth, company, position and contact details, the relationship between the two companies, the purpose of the visit and how long you will stay
• The host's details: the representative's name, title, Canadian contact details and work email; the company's full name, head office and the sites you will visit, website, date of registration and a short description of its business
• What the host will pay for — accommodation and living expenses, if any
• For an event registered with IRCC, the event code, which goes in your application too

Step by step · with timings

How to apply, and how long it takes

In the order it happens. Each stage waits on the one before it, so the date you start decides the date you finish. Ranges, not promises — the mission owns the clock.

Where the current rules and figures are published

Read before you apply

Why Canada business visa applications are refused

The grounds that come up most on files from Pakistan. Most of them can be dealt with before you submit.

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Canada business visa questions

What people ask us before they apply.

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