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Canada Start-up Visa

The Start-up Visa connects qualifying immigrant entrepreneurs with a designated Canadian organisation. The business must be innovative, capable of creating employment and able to compete internationally, while each applicant also satisfies language and settlement-fund requirements.

Reference timeline2–3 years
Eligibility or fundsReference liquidity CAD 400,000
Residence requirementBusiness activity and settlement planning required
Status outcomePermanent residence route
Family assessmentEligible family may be included
Reference travel access185 countries and regions

What is the Canada Start-up Visa?

The Start-up Visa connects qualifying immigrant entrepreneurs with a designated Canadian organisation. The business must be innovative, capable of creating employment and able to compete internationally, while each applicant also satisfies language and settlement-fund requirements.

JK GLOBAL reviews route eligibility, supporting evidence, family scope, filing sequence and post-approval obligations as one coordinated residence plan.

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Eligibility and programme benefits

Core Eligibility

  1. Meet the reference language benchmark, including the required minimum result in each tested skill.
  2. Show available liquid funds of at least CAD 400,000 under the reference screening standard.
  3. Hold a college qualification or higher.
  4. Meet one of the following education and work-experience combinations:
    1. At least three years of experience in a highly skilled industry.
    2. At least five years of experience in a non-high-skilled industry.
    3. Where there is no work experience, a master’s degree or higher.
  5. Provide police certificates for every country in which the applicant has lived for six months or more.

Programme Benefits

  1. The route leads directly to permanent residence for the principal applicant, spouse and qualifying children.
  2. Permanent residents may live, work and study across Canada under the applicable rules.
  3. After meeting the separate physical-presence and other requirements, permanent residents may apply for Canadian citizenship.
  4. A separate work-permit stage may allow the entrepreneur to develop the start-up in Canada while permanent residence is processed; eligible family permits may be assessed at the same time.
  5. The route is not selected through a conventional age-based points ranking.
  6. A later business failure does not by itself determine the permanent-residence result, provided the application and business participation were genuine and compliant.

Five steps connect eligibility review with filing and status maintenance.

  1. 01

    Eligibility and route review

    Confirm the applicant profile, route basis, family scope, timing and the conditions that need priority review.

  2. 02

    Application plan

    Set the financial, employment, business, income, study or talent evidence plan required by this route.

  3. 03

    Documents and due diligence

    Prepare identity, civil-status, financial, professional and background records in one consistent evidence file.

  4. 04

    Filing and authority review

    Coordinate forms, fees, appointments, biometrics, interviews and any further-document requests that apply.

  5. 05

    Approval and status maintenance

    Complete entry or activation steps and track the residence, investment, work, study or renewal conditions after approval.

Place status, family arrangements and long-term planning on one timeline.

Family status

Check spouse, child and other dependant eligibility separately, including work, study, age and documentary conditions.

Arrival and relocation

Connect entry timing, accommodation, schools, medical cover, banking and tax onboarding to the status timetable.

Renewal and long-term planning

Retain evidence of the route conditions and review renewal or longer-term residence options before key deadlines.

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Canada residence planning

Verify the conditions.
Then plan the filing.

Share the applicant profile, family members, financial or professional background and target timing. We will help organise the points that should be verified first for this programme.

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