Transfer at Vancouver airport

[canada4life182]

Hi, after 10 years living in Canada I was deported to my home country of Mexico
Now I want to do a south Asian backpacking tour but the cheapest airplane tickets do a transfer on Vancouver airport
I tried to apply for an ETA but it was obviously denied, now my question is if I buy that cheap airplane ticket will Canadian immigration prevent me from making the transfer from one plane to the other at Vancouver airport?
Thanks

 

[21Goose]

You cannot transit through Canada without an ETA or a valid visa. Since your ETA was denied, you can safely assume you won't get a transit visa either, and you should not try to fly through Canada.

You will very probably not be allowed to board your flight in Mexico itself. The airline will need to see an ETA/visa before they let you board.

 

[21Goose]

The only way to get a visa/ETA will be to apply for an Authorization to Return to Canada (ARC). The odds of getting one just to transit through Canada are extremely slim.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...lity/reasons/authorization-return-canada.html

Just fly through some other country.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Hi, after 10 years living in Canada I was deported to my home country of Mexico
Now I want to do a south Asian backpacking tour but the cheapest airplane tickets do a transfer on Vancouver airport
I tried to apply for an ETA but it was obviously denied, now my question is if I buy that cheap airplane ticket will Canadian immigration prevent me from making the transfer from one plane to the other at Vancouver airport?
Thanks

You will not even be allowed to board the plane to Canada. Change your plans.

 

[scylla]

Hi, after 10 years living in Canada I was deported to my home country of Mexico
Now I want to do a south Asian backpacking tour but the cheapest airplane tickets do a transfer on Vancouver airport
I tried to apply for an ETA but it was obviously denied, now my question is if I buy that cheap airplane ticket will Canadian immigration prevent me from making the transfer from one plane to the other at Vancouver airport?
Thanks

As others have said, change your plans and take a different flight. You cannot transit through Canada without a valid eTA. You won't be allowed to board the airplane to come here (the airline will stop boarding since you won't have the required documents). So it's not that you will be stopped from transiting from one plane to another once in Canada - you won't even get to Canada.

Since you were deported, you need to go through the ARC process in order to be able to return to Canada and qualify again for an eTA. The ARC process generally takes a number of months to process and can sometimes drag out to a year. Even with an approved ARC, there's no guarantee the eTA will be approved - it will depend on the details of your 10 year stay in Canada (i.e. what you were deported, how long ago this was, if and how long you were in Canada without status). If you were deported based on a failed asylum claim - there's really zero chance the eTA is going to be approved even with an approved ARC. Changing your plans is the best and likely only option.