Help me to decide the type of the tourist visa, visit a friend or only tourism

[yeliu]

My girlfriend plans to come to Canada to spend the Christmas with me. I am a student in Canada. And she is a student in Singapore. I don't know which type of tourist visa is suitable for her---to visit a friend or just tourism. The difference is that visiting a friend needs the invitation letter and some other my documents! I am really in a hurry! Worried!

 

[mikeymyke]

She's from Singapore, so she doesn't need a visa.

 

[yeliu]

She's from Singapore, so she doesn't need a visa.

She is an international student there, not a singapore citizen. She needs a visa

 

[mikeymyke]

Oops sorry I didn't see the fact she's a student.

I would just be honest and say she's visiting a friend, because if she gets interviewed at the border and sticks to her story of tourism, but then cracks and says she's actually visiting a b/f, it could raise some red flags. Also, CIC might feel she has a poor purpose of visit because why would a student in another country, travel to Canada alone, where she doesn't know anybody there or have any famly, for tourism when she has studies to attend to? Traveling to visit a b/f for Christmas would seem to be a better purpose of visit.

Be aware that it might be hard for her to get a visitor visa, because she does not have some form of permanent status in Singapore (not a PR or citizen there, but just a student), and this does unfortunately, sometimes causes people to be refused a visa.