Cost and timeline planner · Global Compass

What it costs, and how long it takes

Pick the pathways you are weighing up and who is coming, and see the government’s own fees line by line, the money you need to show, the costs other people set, and the timelines IRCC publishes. Add your own rent, tuition or business figures beside them.

Every government figure here was read off its official page by October 20, 2026.

1. What are you weighing up?

Pick one, or several to compare. Picking a pathway here prices it; it says nothing about whether an application would succeed, which depends on the rules for your own situation.

Staying for good

Permanent residence through work or skillsExpress Entry, a provincial nomination, the Atlantic program, the community pilots or Quebec skilled worker selection.Permanent residence through businessThe start-up visa, the self-employed class, or Quebec business immigration.Sponsoring a spouse or partnerA Canadian citizen or permanent resident sponsoring their husband, wife or partner.Sponsoring a parent or grandparentThe Parents and Grandparents Program, which only opens when IRCC invites sponsors.Sponsoring a dependent childA dependent child sponsored on their own application.Sponsoring a relative 22 or olderOnly a few relatives can be sponsored, and only in narrow circumstances: that is a legal question.

Coming for a while

Work permitA new permit or an extension, employer-specific or open, with the fees an employer pays shown separately.Study permitA new permit or an extension, with the living costs IRCC asks a student to show.Visitor visa or travel authorizationA temporary resident visa, or the electronic travel authorization that replaces it for some citizenships.Parent and grandparent super visaA long-stay visitor visa for a parent or grandparent, which turns on the host in Canada and their income.International Experience CanadaThe youth mobility pools, where the fee depends on the agreement with your country.

After you arrive

Extending a visit in CanadaA visitor record to stay longer, or restoring status that has already lapsed.Citizenship grantApplying to become a citizen after enough time as a permanent resident.Permanent resident card or travel documentRenewing or replacing a card, or the document that gets you home without one.

2. Who is coming?

Fees are charged per person, so this changes the total more than anything else does.

A spouse or partner is included

Dependent children included

Pick at least one pathway above and the fees, funds and timelines will appear here.

What it costs, and how long it takes

1. What are you weighing up?

2. Who is coming?

Costs are the easy part