Disclaimer

The Visa Tales is a private immigration consultancy. We are not IRCC, not a visa application centre, not an embassy or consulate, and not connected to any government in any country.

We cannot issue a visa, a permit or a passport, and neither can anyone else who offers to. Every application is decided by an officer of the country you applied to, under the rules in force on the day they open your file. What a consultancy sells is the preparation and, where it is licensed to, the representation. Never the decision.

The passport work we do is document preparation and appointment booking for an Indian government process. Passport Seva issues the passport, on its own timeline, and nothing on those pages should be read as us having a hand in that.

Canadian immigration work is done by Jay Sharma under RCIC licence R710507. A licence belongs to a person rather than to a firm or a signboard, which is why you can look the number up yourself on the College's public register.

For Canada, the licence lets us represent you before IRCC. For the other 40+ countries we prepare and check your application, and the authority there decides it. We keep the two apart in writing because the difference is a legal one.

It also stops at the Federal Court, where only a lawyer may act. Who is allowed to represent you, and where each authority ends, is set out on its own page.

The guides, the FAQs, the calculators and the country pages describe how a system works. They are general information. Advice means somebody licensed has read your documents and told you what to do about them, and a web page cannot do that for you.

Where your situation needs a profession other than ours, we would rather say so than take the file. A refusal already at the Federal Court, a criminal charge running alongside your status, an inadmissibility finding: those are a lawyer's work, and IRCC's own guidance is worth reading first on whether you need a representative at all. You are allowed to apply by yourself, and for a straightforward file plenty of people should.

Immigration rules change without notice, sometimes overnight. Every page here that states a fee, a cut-off, a processing time or a rule carries the date a person last checked it against the official source, and links that source.

That date is not a promise the page is right today. It is a promise that it was right on the day it says, and that a person rather than a script confirmed it. Before you act on a number from this site, open the official page we link beside it and check the number there. If the two disagree, the official one wins and we would like to know.

We link out to IRCC, to the College, to statutes and to other governments, because a claim you cannot check is worth very little.

We do not control those pages and cannot keep them from moving. A link here that has gone dead is a bug rather than a detail, so tell us and it gets fixed.

118+ cases handled since 2021 is a count of files, not a success rate. We publish no approval percentage, because nobody can verify one and every firm that quotes a figure quotes a flattering one.

The reviews on this site are other people's words about their own applications, published as they wrote them. Somebody else's outcome tells you very little about yours, which depends on your documents, your history and the officer who opens the file.