Can foreign nationals who have applied for Canadian permanent residence under the Independent category obtain a temporary non-immigrant visitors visa to Canada?
Traditionally, visa officers have viewed concurrent applications for permanent residence and temporary entry as being incompatible with each other. Visitors (work, study or visit) with pending immigrant applications will be subject to the issue of Dual Intent which in itself has been the subject of ongoing debate within the department of Citizenship and Immigration as well as the judicial community including the Federal Court of Appeal. Recent clarifications which attempt to conform to a global view of the world community, provide that immigration officers must assess the present intention of the applicant when a person applies to visit Canada and verify the question of whether the applicant has the ability and the intention to enter Canada for a temporary purpose and thereafter leave Canada at the expiry of the visitor status, regardless if the long-term goal is to secure permanent residence in Canada. Under current immigration policy, applicants are encouraged to become familiar with
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