Visitor visa reconsideration request - does this even work?

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9 out of 10 times, when clients come to us for a Professional Consultation after facing a refusal of their Canada visitor visa applications, they want to go for a reconsideration! Hence, this brief write up - the objective of which is to break some myths around this issue.

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (2002) and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations have no provisions that allow for a reconsideration of the decision pertaining a TRV already being made by a competent IRCC officer. In other words, if your visit visa got refused, you are technically looking at a complete re-application and not a reconsideration.

Having said that, there is no harm in putting forward a reconsideration request, citing reasons for reconsideration in as clear manner as possible coupled with strong documentations, to see if an immigration officer is lenient enough to even take a look at the reconsideration request. Whether your request would be heard or no, is purely dependent on the immigration officer.

Having said that, even before you decide to put forward a reconsideration request, it is very important to understand whether it is even worth doing so or a straight forward re-application will work better. We have made a short YouTube video on this topic, give it a watch, if you can. Do not forget, the possibility of success of a visitor visa reconsideration is extremely negligible.

If you need us to guide you in the right direction, you are most welcome to schedule a Professional Consultation and we will be very happy to review your situation from a holistic perspective to channelize your time, money and energy in the right direction.

Thank you for reading.