Canada Visa Cost Calculator

Canada prices its single-entry tourist visa at $100, covering tourism, family visits and short unpaid business meetings. Travellers who expect to cross a border and return — regional side trips, contiguous-country loops — take the multi-entry visa at 1.5× base, $150 for Canada. Business visas cost 2.5× base ($250) because they clear a different review path: expect to attach an invitation letter from your Canada host company.

A $30 transit endorsement legalises a short Canada layover — typically 24–72 hours — without a full application behind it. Consulate routes for Canada often carry service-charge add-ons beyond the base fee, so treat the calculator's total as the government's cut, not the whole bill.

Four inputs drive a Canada application: a passport valid six months beyond your stay, one compliant photo, proof of accommodation, and evidence you can fund the trip. Submission is portal-first for Canada: create the account, upload each document in the requested format, and keep every confirmation screenshot. Payment timing varies by channel: online by card for the Canada eVisa/ETA, or at application time by card or money order where a consulate handles the file.

Expect silence rather than updates: Canada rarely confirms receipt mid-review, so screenshot every submission page as you go. File 4–6 weeks out for Canada; express handling rescues late plans at +50%, which the calculator above prices for your group size.

Start with the passport: Canada wants six months of validity left and two blank pages, and will reject against either. Photos fail applications quietly: print two spares, keep the digital originals, and use a likeness from the last six months for Canada's file. Show roughly $50–100 USD per day of stay in bank statements — for a 10-day Canada trip that means $500–1,000 visible and recent.

Hotel bookings and the return ticket close the loop; Canada cross-checks the dates across all of them. An invitation letter from a registered Canada company is the business-visa keystone; transit files live or die on the onward booking.

Standard processing for Canada runs 5–15 business days for tourist files, stretching toward three weeks for multi-entry and business categories in busy seasons. The express lane at Canada costs half the base fee extra and returns decisions in 1–3 business days. Canada officers refuse on documentation gaps first and eligibility second, so audit the checklist twice before paying.

Fix-then-refile is the normal path after a Canada denial; the fee is due again, so get the file right the second time. Build a one-week buffer into any Canada timeline: a document request at day twelve of a fifteen-day queue is a missed flight otherwise.