Request a Visa Assistance Letter

For full details on visiting Canada, please visit http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/index.html

To visit Canada you:

a.. must be healthy. You might need a doctor's examination;
b.. must respect Canadian laws;
c.. will need a valid passport, proof of who you are or other travel documents;
d.. will need a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) if you are from one of these countries; and
e.. may need a letter of invitation.

Canada does not pay for hospital or medical services for visitors. Make sure you have health insurance to pay your medical costs before you leave for Canada.

You may not be permitted to enter Canada if you have a criminal conviction, including a conviction for driving while impaired. Find out more about inadmissibility to Canada.

Contact a Canadian embassy, high commission or consulate for information on what you will need before coming to Canada.

VISITOR VISA EXEMPTIONS

Many people do not require a visa to visit Canada. These include:

• citizens of Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel (National Passport holders only), Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Republic of Korea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, San Marino, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Slovenia, Switzerland, United States, and Western Samoa;
• persons lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence who are in possession of their alien registration card (Green card) or can provide other evidence of permanent residence.
• British citizens and British Overseas Citizens who are re-admissible to the United Kingdom;
• citizens of British dependent territories who derive their citizenship through birth, descent, registration or naturalization in one of the British dependent territories of Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena or the Turks and Caicos Islands;
• persons holding a valid and subsisting Special Administrative Region passport issued by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China;
• persons holding passports or travel documents issued by the Holy See.

Countries and Territories Whose Citizens Require Visas in Order to Enter Canada as Visitors

Citizens of the following countries and territories require a Visa to VISIT or TRANSIT Canada:

 

A Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Argentina Armenia Azerbaijan B Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi C Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Chile China, People’s Rep. of Colombia Comoros Congo, Democratic Rep. of the Congo, Rep. of the Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Czech Rep. D Djibouti Dominica Dominican Rep. E East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia F Fiji G Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana H Haiti Honduras Hungary I India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel (only Israeli citizens holding valid Israeli “Travel Document in lieu of National Passport”) Ivory Coast J Jamaica Jordan K Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea, North Kuwait Kyrgyzstan L Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania

M Macao S.A.R. Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Islands Mali Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Micronesia, Fed. States Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) N Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria O Oman P Pakistan Palau Palestinian Authority Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Q Qatar R Romania Russia Rwanda S Sao Tomé e Principe Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Senegal Serbia-Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Slovak Rep. Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Surinam Syria T Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu U Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates Uruguay Uzbekistan V Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Y Yemen Z Zambia Zimbabwe

To obtain a visa to attend this conference, you will be required to present a letter from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society to the Canadian Embassy or Consulate when filling out your application. We are happy to write this letter provided that you have registered and prepaid the appropriate fee for the conference. Please visit our registration site if you have not already done so. Once your registration is complete please make note of your confirmation number and amount paid (you will need to provide these on the visa letter request form). Registrants will receive a visa letter sent via Airmail and facsimile (provided you supply a fax number) by filling out the form below completely.

Visa requests will be processed from June 2006 (registration opening) till September 1, 2006. No visa requests will be processed after September 1, 2006.

 

The Canadian Government will be validating registrants requesting a visa with the IEEE VTC Fall 2006 Registration Database. If the original registrant cannot attend and is designating a substitute the database needs to be updated or the Canadian Government will deny you visa.

The registrant is responsible to make these changes with IEEE Conference services.

 

To obtain a letter from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society to present to the Canadian Embassy or Consulate, and you have registered for the conference, please fill our the form below (* marks required fields)

Name *
What is the full title of the paper you are presenting? * If you are not an author, what is the purpose of your attendance at this conference?
What is the TrackChair number(s) of your paper? If you are not an author, please leave blank	12-   12-   12-
What was the confirmation number of your registration? *	- -
What was the amount paid for your registration? *
To what post office
address should the
letter be mailed? *
If you need the letter by fax, what is your fax number?
E-mail *

 

Please allow 5 working days for processing, plus one week or more for mailing letters via regular mail. For questions contact visa_vtc2006fall@emt.inrs.ca