Hello Mr. Masood,

When Mr X had applied for visitor visa first time, he got 5 years multiple entry visitor visa for canada.

Now his family is aplying for his immigration under family class in 2006. His visitor visa expires in 2007. What are the chances of his visitor visa being renewed in 2007 after immigration papers are filed in 2006 ?

I have heard that once you put PR file, visitor visas are refused, is that correct ?

Thanks .

temp visas (student, visitor etc) are not refused by default, but yes they are difficult to get.
It is called "dual intent", and it means that the applicant has intention of staying permanently in Canada as he had applied for PR. but if the reasn is genuine and there are strong family ties with home country, then sure u mr x got a chance.

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Sorry!
This is Mr. Masood's area and only he is allowed to answer queries when he finds time. Deleted my answer/ observation

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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.

I think tamil and BL are right in saying that this is masood ji area, but I think he is away from this forum from last one month so. maybe he is busy with his regular routine work, so I think we should keep alive this area of immigration and only post the genuine replies of which we are totaly sure.
Actually I had applied for immigration myself and filed for lots of other people in my circle. So I am not replying on the "hit and trial" method, but I am dead sure of what I had replied. and I replied by keeping immigration rules in mind......

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Mr Masood no longer replies or is he away for some time ?

Just to share my experience. I Hope it is useful to someone else.
If you ask me about the consequences of getting a visitor visa and then apply from inside Canada. I can tell you that the Embassy in your country won't issue a visitor visa for any other relatives, friends or whoever has a relation with you.
It happened to me. I sent a letter to the embassy supporting my ex-mother in law visitor visa application. Then in Canada, she applied for a PR visa.
After that the Embassy rejected my parents' visa application twice, despite they were once in Canada for 5 weeks.

Normally it should not be a problem.