Can anyone advise if physical signatures are required on supporting forms while applying for visit visa through CIC website? My parents are visiting me and I have initiated the application online. While it is clear that the main application forms DO NOT need physical signatures, I am not sure about other supporting forms (IMM5476 - Use of a Representative, IMM5713 - Use of a family representative, IMM5645 - Family Information).

Since I am completing the forms online and uploading them, do these 3 forms need physical signatures of the visitors (my parents)? Appreciate all fact based responses.

Thanks

Viplove Bakshi

Please follow this procedure given below to validate your Forms. :

Signing" Forms on cic.gc.ca that are submitted online

Can't submit online? Skip down to the section on validating forms.

In order to submit any application form online to IRCC, you obviously need to 'sign' it. But though it is possible to "sign" many pdfs nowadays, IRCC hasn't quite caught up to that standard yet. (Though, based on the constant changes to this site, they are moving in this direction and we may see that any day.)

So your signature is taken another way: When you create a profile on cic.gc.ca (or GCKey on any federal government website) you must both create a profile and agree to the terms and conditions. This is a roundabout way of taking your consent - the creation of the profile and agreeing to the various steps of the process is taken as a proxy for your signature.

So you don't need to worry about 'signing' these forms. You don't have to print them off, sign and scan them or anything like that. You can just submit them when they are complete.

Provided you qualify and you have been honest on your application, you should get your visa or permit much faster than if you submitted a paper application.


Validating IRCC Forms

Even if you are mailing your application to a IRCC office in Canada, some of your forms will have to be validated. Which forms have to be validated? Well, the general rule is that application forms - for any immigration application - need to be validated whereas some of the supporting documentation forms do not have to be validated.

For example, for an application for a work permit made outside of Canada:

Application form (IMM 1295) must be validated;
Schedule 1 - Application for a Temporary Resident Visa form (IMM 5257 Schedule 1), if applicable must be validated; Family Information form (IMM 5645) does not have to be validated;
Statutory Declaration of Common-Law Union form (IMM 5409), if applicable does not have to be validated but obviously must be notarized;
Use of Representative form (IMM 5476) does not have to be validated;
Document Checklist form (IMM 5488) does not have to be validated.

This pattern is generally true for most if not all immigration applications submitted to IRCC.

If you have any more questions please get back to me here. OR Alternately contact IRCC By mail DIRECTLY.


FH.


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Originally posted by vbakshi

Can anyone advise if physical signatures are required on supporting forms while applying for visit visa through CIC website? My parents are visiting me and I have initiated the application online. While it is clear that the main application forms DO NOT need physical signatures, I am not sure about other supporting forms (IMM5476 - Use of a Representative, IMM5713 - Use of a family representative, IMM5645 - Family Information).

Since I am completing the forms online and uploading them, do these 3 forms need physical signatures of the visitors (my parents)? Appreciate all fact based responses.

Thanks

Viplove Bakshi

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Thank you FH. So you are indicating for online application no form needs physical signature outside their validation where required. That begs a question for the form IMM5645 (use of family representative) where say my mother has to authorize my dad to apply on her behalf. Are you suggesting that IRCC will accept her authorization without her signature?

FORM #5713 .. : http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5713E.PDF

FORM # 5476... : http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5476E.pdf

FORM. # 5645,, : http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM5645E.pdf

If you are there at Visa Global attending to all of these in person, either for a Finger Printing or for the submission of Passports or Applications, you can attest them there in person in front of the officials there. Also you can generate an authorization also and submit it as a notarized document.

These are all of the possibilities that you can for see. Please do comply with their requirements as far as possible.

Hope this helps in your application process.


FH.