Learning path
This is a reading order, not a review of anyone. Each step names a published rule and points at the free tool that shows it. Nothing here collects a fact about you, and nothing here decides whether a person can enter Canada, which is a decision a CBSA or IRCC officer makes.
Progress saved on this device only. Ticking a step stores one flag in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, no account exists, and clearing your browser data clears it.
Step 1 of 5
Whether a traveller needs a visitor visa or an electronic travel authorization depends on nationality, and IRCC publishes the list country by country. This tool reads that published list. It answers which document type applies, which is a separate question from whether a person is admissible.
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Step 2 of 5
Canadian law sets out inadmissibility as a set of named topics in IRPA sections 34 through 42, covering security, criminality, misrepresentation, health, finances and more. The explorer walks through what each topic generally covers and cites the section it comes from. It maps the law; it does not rule on a traveller.
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Step 3 of 5
A conviction from another country matters to Canada through its closest Canadian equivalent, and what the law weighs is the maximum penalty of that equivalent offence rather than the sentence a court actually imposed. The equivalency tool shows how common foreign offences generally line up with the Criminal Code. What an actual record equates to is decided by an officer.
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Step 4 of 5
IRPA section 36 and IRPR section 18 publish fixed periods that run from the day an entire sentence is complete, including probation, fines and any driving prohibition. The calculator applies those published periods and nothing else. The dates it prints are the rule as published, not a finding.
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IRCC publishes current processing times for the applications people file, including temporary resident permits and rehabilitation applications. The tracker shows what is published today, next to the fee and the office that handles it. Published times describe recent files rather than promising a date.
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These tools orient: they show which published rule applies to a subject and where the official text lives. They do not explain the law in depth, and they never apply it to a person. Those are two different places, and both are here.
This volume explains the law; it cannot and does not apply it to you. That is the role of a licensed professional.
Go deeper
Every admissibility ground in Canadian law, explained chapter by chapter with the official text cited: the IRPA framework, criminality, equivalency, the rehabilitation routes, misrepresentation, medical and financial grounds, and what published manuals say happens at the border.
Free tools orient. The Deep-Dive Library explains the law in depth for every reader alike. A licensed professional is the only place that can speak to one person and their situation.
