World Travel and Visas

Canada has a great and welcoming business environment and is known as a great attraction for many entrepreneurs from many countries around the world. It welcomes people with bright ideas who want to invest and to establish businesses in the country. As a result, Canada offers a wide range of Business visas to bring in business persons with experience, capital and assets, to help in the boosting of Canada’s strong and thriving economy.

Among the Canada visas offered by the country are the Federal Investor visa which allows people with fresh ideas and capital to be integrated into the Canadian economy and as a result Canada provides a business environment where the ideas can thrive. This visa attracts foreign investors who wish to invest their capital in Canada. This programme is designed to bring in successful entrepreneurs who have the ability of investing in Canada for at least five years.

To be eligible for the Federal Investors visa, one must show a number of years of successful business experience, must have a net worth of at least 800,000 Canadian dollars, legally obtained of course, and must make an investment of 400,000 Canadian dollars.

Some of the benefits are: as a business class visa owner one will have the right to use Canada’s first rate communication facilities, a highly skilled workforce, taxation incentives and close access to the larger North American market. Also as a permanent resident, one will have the right to live and work and practice business ventures in Canada as you wish, one will have access to government subsidised health care, subsidised education and the ability to apply for citizenship once one satisfies the residency requirements.

The Federal Self employed visa is for those applicants who are able to provide work for themselves upon their arrival in Canada. To qualify for this visa, one is required to have the appropriate skills, have a required amount of legally obtained funds and meet the requirements of a points-based evaluation.