Visiting Canada for a job interview: tourism or business? eTA or visa?

9/20/2016 7:11:53 PM

Canada does not really make a distinction between “Tourist” and “Business” visas. There’s just one temporary visa type, the confusingly-named TRV (Temporary Resident Visa). If you need to apply for it, you must truthfully disclose your reason for visiting Canada, where you can indeed choose “Tourism”, or “Business”, or you can select “Other” and write in “Job interview” which is what I would do in your case (if you needed a visa).
But you get the same visa at the end, that allows you to do both tourism and business.

In your case, since you seem to be from a visa-exempt country, my understanding is that you don’t have to worry about this process at all – eTA is fine for any temporary visit (of course, if you don’t do things like paid work in Canada). Here’s a page that talks about eTA being applicable to a business visa: cic.gc.ca/english/visit/business.asp

You should go by the CIC’s advice and not your country’s advice.

By the way, if you don’t trust me, a random stranger from the Internet :), you can try and reach the CIC by phone – they have very knowledgeable phone agents that can answer quite complex questions, but can be a bit difficult to reach.

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