Our permanent residence fees have increased
The fees for all permanent residence applications increased on April 30, 2022. Learn more about why fees increased.
You need to pay a fee for most of our applications. You can find information on fees in the application guides.
On this page
- Temporary residence
- Permanent residence
- Family sponsorship
- Citizenship
- Inadmissibility
- Other applications and services
Temporary Residence
Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Electronic Travel Authorization | 7 |
International Experience Canada
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| International Experience Canada fee | 161 |
Study Permits (including extensions)
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Study permit (including extensions) – per person | 150 |
Restore your status as a student Restore your status ($200) and a get a new study permit ($150) | 350 |
Temporary resident permit
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Temporary resident permit – per person | 200 |
Visitor visa (including super visa) or extend your stay in Canada
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Visitor visa (including super visa) - per person Single or multiple entry temporary resident visaWhat's this? Single or multiple entry temporary resident visaThe same fee applies to both types of visas. We’ll decide which visa to give you based on your application. Find out more about the difference between single and multiple entry visas. | 100 |
Visitor visa – per family (1 fee per family of 5 or more people) Single or multiple entry temporary resident visa What’s this?; maximum fee for a family of 5 or more people applying at the same time and place | 500 |
| Extend your stay as a visitor – per person | 100 |
Restore your status as a visitor Visa fee not needed | 200 |
Note:
To be eligible to pay the maximum fee of $500 (in Canadian dollars):
- family members must all apply at the same time and same place
- your children must qualify as dependants
Work Permits (including extensions)
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Work permit (including extensions) – per person | 155 |
Work permit (including extensions) – per group (3 or more performing artists) Maximum fee for a group of 3 or more performing artists applying at the same time and place | 465 |
| Open work permit holder | 100 |
Restore your status as a worker Restore your status ($200) and get a new work permit ($155) | 355 |
Notes:
Work permit maximum group fee: To qualify, you must be a group of three or more performing artists and their staff, and apply at the same time and place.
If you also need visitor visas (temporary resident visas), you still need to pay for them individually. For visitor visas, the group fee only applies to families.
Permanent Residence
Business immigration
These fees apply to:
- Quebec business immigration
- Self-employed people
- Start-up visa
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Your application Processing fee ($1625) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 2,140 |
| Your application (without right of permanent residence fee) | 1,625 |
Include your spouse or partner Processing fee ($850) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,365 |
| Include your spouse or partner (without right of permanent residence fee) | 850 |
| Include a dependent child | 230(per child) |
Caregivers
These fees apply to:
- Live-in Caregiver Program
- Home Child Care Provider Pilot (without the work permit fee)
- Home Support Worker Pilot (without the work permit fee)
Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot
If you are applying for a work permit, you must pay for it separately:
- pay your caregiver fees and get your receipt, then
- pay your work permit fees and get another receipt.
Include both receipts with your application.
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Your application Processing fee ($570) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,085 |
| Your application (without right of permanent residence fee) | 570 |
Include your spouse or partner Processing fee ($570) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,085 |
| Include your spouse or partner without right of permanent residence fee | 570 |
| Include a dependent child | 155(per child) |
Economic immigration (including Express Entry)
These fees apply to:
- Agri-food pilot
- Atlantic immigration pilot
- Atlantic immigration program
- Canadian experience class
- Federal skilled workers
- Federal skilled trades
- Provincial nominee
- Rural and northern immigration pilot
- Quebec-selected skilled workers
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Your application Processing fee ($850) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,365 |
| Your application (without right of permanent residence fee) | 850 |
Include your spouse or partner Processing fee ($850) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,365 |
| Include your spouse or partner (without right of permanent residence fee) | 850 |
| Include a dependent child | 230(per child) |
Humanitarian and compassionate
These fees also apply to the
- Health-care worker permanent residence pathway
- Pathway to permanent residence – In-Canada families of Canadian victims of recent air disasters
- Temporary public policy for Hong Kong residents
- Temporary public policy to further facilitate access to permanent resident status for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
- Temporary resident to permanent resident pathway (TR to PR pathway)
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Your application Processing fee ($570) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,085 |
| Your application (without right of permanent residence fee) | 570 |
Include your spouse or partner Processing fee ($570) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,085 |
| Include your spouse or partner (without right of permanent residence fee) | 570 |
| Include adependent child | 155(per child) |
Permanent resident cards
Your permanent resident (PR) card can only be delivered to an address in Canada. If you are outside Canada and don’t have a valid PR card, or if your card is lost or stolen, apply for apermanent resident travel documentto return to Canada.
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Permanent resident card | 50 |
Permanent resident travel document
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Permanent resident travel document | 50 |
Permit Holders Class
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Your application Processing fee ($335) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 850 |
| Your application (without right of permanent residence fee) | 335 |
The Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship may grant permanent resident status to an inadmissible foreign national based on humanitarian and compassionate or public policy grounds.
Protected person
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Your application Processing fee ($570) | 570 |
Include your spouse or partner Processing fee ($570) | 570 |
| Include adependent child | 155(per child) |
Right of permanent residence fee
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Right of permanent residence fee | 515 |
For most permanent residence applications, you need to pay the right of permanent residence fee (RPRF) when your application is approved. You will have to pay it before you can become a permanent resident.
You can pay the RPRF at the same time as your application fees to avoid delays. If we approve your application before you pay it, we will contact you to explain how.
We will refund the RPRF if you withdraw or we refuse your application. The RPRF is the only fee that we can refund after we start processing your application.
The RPRF does not apply to:
- the dependent children of a principal applicant or sponsor
- sponsorship applications for adopted children
- sponsorship applications for an orphaned brother, sister, niece, nephew or grandchild or
- protected persons, including applicants eligible on humanitarian and compassionate grounds and convention refugees.
Adopted children and other relatives
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Sponsor your relative (22 years or older) Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($490) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,080 |
Sponsor your relative (22 years or older without right of permanent residence fee) Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($490) | 565 |
Sponsor a dependant, adopted child (or child to be adopted) or orphaned relative Sponsor only a dependent child ($75 sponsorship fee and $75 processing fee) | 150(per child) |
Include a dependant, adopted child (or child to be adopted) or orphaned relative on an application with your relative The fee for including a dependent child in your family member's sponsorship application ($155) | 155(per child) |
Sponsor your relative (under 22 years old and not your dependent child) Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($75) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 665 |
Sponsor your relative (under 22 years old and not your dependent child, without right of permanent residence fee) Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($75) | 150 |
Include the spouse or partner of your relative Processing fee ($570) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,085 |
| Include the spouse or partner of your relative (without right of permanent residence fee) | 570 |
Note: If you are applying under the Family Class, you can pay your fees when the sponsor files the sponsorship application.
Parents and grandparents
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Sponsor your parent or grandparent Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($490) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,080 |
Sponsor your parent or grandparent (without the right of permanent residence fee) Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($490) | 565 |
Include the spouse or partner of your parent or grandparent Processing fee ($570) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,085 |
Include the spouse or partner of your parent or grandparent (without the right of permanent residence fee) Processing fee ($570) | 570 |
| Include a dependent child of your parent or grandparent | 155(per child) |
Spouse, partner or children (abroad)
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Sponsor your spouse or partner Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($490) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,080 |
Sponsor your spouse or partner without right of permanent residence fee Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($490) | 565 |
Include any dependent child Include any dependent child on an application with your spouse or partner ($155) | 155(perchild) |
Independently sponsor a dependent child Sponsorship fee ($75) and processing fee ($75) | 150(perchild) |
Spouse, partner or children (in Canada)
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Sponsor your spouse or partner Sponsorship fee ($75), principal applicant processing fee ($490) and right of permanent residence fee ($515) | 1,080 |
Sponsor your spouse or partner without right of permanent residence fee Sponsorship fee ($75) and principal applicant processing fee ($490) | 565 |
Include any dependent child Include any dependent child on an application with your spouse or partner ($155) | 155(perchild) |
Citizenship
Citizenship - application fees
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
Adult (18 and over) Processing fee ($530) and right of citizenship fee ($100) | 630 |
Stateless adult (18 or over) born to Canadian parent Right of citizenship fee ($100) | 100 |
Minor (under 18) Processing fee ($100) | 100 |
Other citizenship fees and services
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Citizenship certificate (proof of citizenship) | 75 |
| Search for your record of citizenship | 75 |
| Resume your citizenship (18 and over) | 530 |
| Resume your citizenship (under 18) | 100 |
| Renounce your citizenship | 100 |
| Right of Citizenship | 100 |
Inadmissibility
Authorization to return to Canada
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Authorization to return to Canada | 400 |
Rehabilitation
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Inadmissible on the grounds of criminality | 200 |
| Inadmissible on the grounds of serious criminality | 1,000 |
Repay your removal expenses
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| U.S.A. and St. Pierre and Miquelon | 750 |
| Any other country | 1,500 |
Temporary resident permit
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Temporary resident permit – per person | 200 |
Other applications and services
Biometrics
If you are a citizen of certain countries or territories, you have to give your biometrics (fingerprints and photograph) when you apply for a:
- visitor visa
- study permit or
- work permit.
Find out if you need to give biometrics.
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Biometrics – per person | 85 |
Biometrics – per family (2 or more people) Maximum fee for a family of 2 or more people applying at the same time and place | 170 |
Biometrics – per group (3 or more performing artists) Maximum fee for a group of 3 or more performing artists applying at the same time and place | 255 |
Note: The biometrics fee covers:
- collecting fingerprints and a digital photo
- moving your documents between our visa office and the VAC where you gave your biometrics
If your children qualify as dependants and need to give their biometrics, you can pay the family fee.
Canadian passports and travel documents
To find fees and payment options for Canadian passports and travel documents, visit Pay your fees for a Canadian passport, a travel document or other services.
Employer compliance
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Employer compliance fee | 230 |
| Employer compliance fee – group of entertainers (3 or more) | 690 |
Notes: Employer Compliance – group of entertainers (3 or more):To be eligible for the group fee, you must make your offers of employment to a group of three or more foreign nationals, consisting of performing artists and their staff, at the same time.
Verify your status or replace an immigration document
| Fees | $CAN |
|---|---|
| Verify your status or replace an immigration document | 30 |
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