Super Visa Mississauga
A super visa Mississauga applications have three main requirements in 2026: a host who meets the minimum necessary income for the family size, a parent who holds at least $100,000 in qualifying medical insurance, and an officer satisfied the visit is genuinely temporary. The income rules moved on March 31, 2026, and the change helps Mississauga hosts who fell short last year, because income from either of the two prior tax years now counts. Mirzoyan Immigration prepares and submits the full host-and-applicant package for Mississauga and Peel-Region families inviting a parent or grandparent for a stay of up to five years per entry. Narek Mirzoyan (RCIC # R1005184) and Vahe Mirzoyan (RCIC # R514223) lead every file, serving Mississauga in person, online, or by phone, in English, Russian, and Armenian.
Last reviewed by Narek Mirzoyan, RCIC # R1005184, on 2026-06-25.
Is the Super Visa the Right Path for Your Parents or Grandparents?
The super visa is the long-stay visitor route for parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens and permanent residents. It authorizes a stay of up to five years per entry, on a visa valid up to 10 years, which is why so many Mississauga families choose it over the standard six-month visitor visa . It is not a route to permanent residence. The profiles below are the ones that fit.
This service is right for you if:
You are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident living in Mississauga or the Peel Region.
You want to host a parent or grandparent for longer than the standard six-month visitor stay.
You meet the minimum necessary income for your family size, counting every visiting parent inside that size, in one of the two prior tax years.
Your parent or grandparent is medically admissible and will hold $100,000 in OSFI-compliant medical insurance.
Your parent or grandparent has no criminal or security inadmissibility issues.
You want long-stay visitor status now, rather than waiting on the closed Parents and Grandparents Program permanent-residence lottery.
What Mirzoyan Immigration Handles on Your Mississauga Super Visa File
Mirzoyan Immigration prepares and submits the full application on your behalf. That means drafting the invitation letter on your letterhead with the IRCC-required content, calculating the minimum necessary income against your Canada Revenue Agency records, and packaging your Notice of Assessment, T4 slips, and employment-confirmation letter in the order the visa office expects. Self-employed Mississauga hosts also submit T1 General returns and business financial statements. The firm files IMM 5257 (the temporary-resident-visa form used for the super visa), IMM 5645 (Family Information), and IMM 5476 (Use of a Representative) through the IRCC portal. The firm also reviews your parent's medical-insurance policy against the $100,000 OSFI rule, coordinates the panel-physician medical exam and biometrics at the visa application centre serving your parent's country, and tracks the file to decision. You provide the source documents. The firm builds and submits the file. For the national service overview rather than the Mississauga-specific page, speak with a super visa consultant about your file.
How the Super Visa Process Works for a Mississauga Host
The process runs in five steps, and step one decides whether the file is viable at all. Many Mississauga hosts draft the invitation letter before they know whether their income clears the threshold, which wastes weeks. Confirm the income first.
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You must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, and your income must meet the minimum necessary income for the family size, counting every visiting parent. You provide your Notice of Assessment for the tax year relied on, your T4 slips, and a current employment-confirmation letter. Self-employed hosts add T1 General returns and business financial statements.
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The firm produces the IRCC-compliant invitation letter on your letterhead and packages the financial documents to match. You sign the letter and provide proof of your status (citizenship certificate or PR card scan) plus proof of your relationship to the applicant.
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The policy must give at least $100,000 in coverage, run one full year from the date of entry, and cover health care, hospitalization, and repatriation, from a Canadian insurer or an OSFI-authorized foreign insurer. The firm reviews the policy you buy and confirms the insurer qualifies before the premium is paid.
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The firm prepares and reviews IMM 5257, IMM 5645, and IMM 5476. Your parent attends the immigration medical exam in their country of residence and the biometrics appointment at a visa application centre.
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The firm submits under the signed IMM 5476 representative authorization, pays the government fees, and follows the file with the visa office serving your parent's country.
Documents You Will Need to Submit
Two sets of documents drive every super visa file: yours as the Mississauga host, and your parent's or grandparent's as the applicant.
From you (the host):
Notice of Assessment for the tax year you rely on under the two-year lookback. Proves your minimum necessary income to IRCC.
T4 slips and a current employment-confirmation letter on company letterhead. Self-employed hosts add T1 General returns and business financial statements.
Proof of Canadian citizenship or permanent resident status (citizenship certificate, citizenship card, or PR card scan).
Invitation letter on your letterhead, naming the household size and a clear financial-support commitment. Drafted by the firm, signed by you.
Proof of relationship to the applicant. A birth certificate or other document showing the parent-or-grandparent link.
From your parent or grandparent (the applicant):
Valid passport with enough remaining validity to cover the intended stay.
$100,000 OSFI-compliant medical-insurance policy, paid and valid one full year from the date of entry.
Immigration medical-exam confirmation from a panel physician.
Police certificate from the country of residence, where applicable.
Recent digital photo meeting IRCC photo specifications.
Biometrics receipt.
Typical Timeline and Government Fees
Processing time depends on the visa office serving your parent's country of residence, and super visa figures vary by office more than most IRCC files. Pull the live number from the IRCC processing-times tool on the day you submit, because the range shifts week to week. On top of IRCC processing, plan for four to six weeks of host-side work before submission, for invitation-letter drafting, financial-document packaging, and panel-physician scheduling.
Government fees are set by IRCC and paid to IRCC. The application fee is $100 and the biometrics fee is $85 per person, with a family cap that may apply, both on the IRCC fees page. The immigration medical exam is paid to the panel physician and varies by country. The insurance premium is paid to the insurer and is usually the largest single line, scaling with the parent's age and the coverage term. The Mirzoyan service fee is a transparent flat fee, quoted in writing after the consultation, published on our immigration consultant cost page. Book a consultation and the firm will quote the flat fee for your file.
Common Mistakes That Lead to Super Visa Refusals
In my consultations with Mississauga-area hosts, the same failure modes repeat. Refusals are rarely about the parent. They are usually about how the host's income file, the insurance, and the invitation letter were prepared.
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Since 2025, IRCC accepts a policy from a company outside Canada, but only when the insurer is authorized by OSFI and issues the policy through its Canadian operations. This is the trigger I see most on Mississauga files prepared without advice: a family buys an inexpensive policy from an insurer in the parent's home country, the $100,000 coverage figure is correct, and the file is refused because the insurer is not OSFI-authorized. A second insurance pattern is a six- or nine-month travel product sold as a super visa policy when IRCC requires a full year from the date of entry.
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The single most common host-side error is family-size math: a Mississauga household of four inviting both parents counts a family of six, not four, and a host who counts only the nuclear household applies the wrong threshold and submits under the line. Self-employed hosts confuse line 150 (total income) with line 236 (net income), and IRCC reads one specific line. The March 31, 2026 two-year lookback helps here, because the host can rely on either of the two prior tax years, but only when the documents for that year actually clear the threshold.
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The income and the insurance are eligibility requirements. The officer must still be satisfied the parent is a genuine temporary visitor who will leave when the authorized stay ends. That is the will-leave-Canada test in section 179 of the Regulations. Refusal letters cite that section. A parent whose entire family is in Canada, with thin home-country ties and a vague reason for the visit, reads as someone using the visa as a back door to settlement. The five-year stay does not change this test: the parent is still asking for visitor status and still has to satisfy the officer they will leave.
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The letter of invitation is a cross-check against the host's income file. When the letter states one income figure and the Notice of Assessment shows another, or the family size in the letter does not match the threshold used, the officer sees an inconsistency and can issue a procedural fairness letter. I flag this most on self-employed Mississauga host files, where business income gets under-documented on the letter side and the file refuses on its own internal contradiction.
Ready to Start Your Mississauga Super Visa Application?
Ready to start your parent's or grandparent's super visa file? Mirzoyan Immigration prepares super visa applications for Mississauga and Peel-Region hosts, serving you in person, online, or by phone, in English, Russian, or Armenian. Book a Mississauga super visa consultation with a licensed RCIC, or call 1-888-636-2122.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Super Visas in Mississauga
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Mirzoyan Immigration charges a transparent flat fee, quoted in writing after the consultation, so you know the cost before you sign. The figure depends on file complexity: employment income alone versus self-employment, one parent versus both, and whether the file carries a prior refusal. Government fees are separate and paid to IRCC: the application fee is $100 and biometrics is $85. Book a consultation and the firm will quote the flat fee for your file.
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Total time runs from submission to decision and depends on the visa office serving your parent's country of residence, not on where you live in Mississauga. New Delhi, Islamabad, Manila, and other offices each post their own range on the IRCC processing-times tool, which moves week to week. On top of IRCC processing, plan for four to six weeks of host-side work before submission: the income calculation, the invitation letter, and the insurance.
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No. Mirzoyan Immigration serves Mississauga hosts in person, online, or by phone. The consultation and the full file can run by secure video on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, with documents exchanged through an encrypted portal. The host signs the invitation letter and the firm submits to IRCC electronically. Most hosts handle the entire file remotely, since the visiting parent is abroad and the host is at work in Peel Region.
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Only if the insurer qualifies. The policy must give at least $100,000 in coverage, run one full year from the date of entry, and cover health care, hospitalization, and repatriation. A policy from a company outside Canada must come from an insurer authorized by OSFI and be issued through its Canadian operations. A cheap home-country policy with the right coverage amount is still refused if the insurer is not OSFI-authorized. Confirm the insurer's status before paying.
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Possibly. Since March 31, 2026, the host can meet the minimum necessary income in either of the two tax years before applying, not only the most recent year. A Mississauga host who took an unpaid leave or changed jobs last year can point to the year before instead. The visiting parent's own income can also be added to top up a shortfall, once the host meets a minimum share alone. Book a consultation to confirm which year clears the threshold.
Related Services and Resources
For the national overview rather than the Mississauga-specific service, read our complete guide to the super visa in Canada, which covers the 2026 income change, the insurance rules, and the genuine-visitor test in full. If your parent or grandparent wants permanent residence rather than a long visit, the Parents and Grandparents Program is the separate PR pathway, handled by the firm as well. Hosts in neighbouring municipalities can start at our super visa Toronto and super visa Brampton pages, which carry the same service for those cities.
Start Your Mississauga Super Visa Application Today
A clean super visa file, with the host income math confirmed and an OSFI-compliant insurance policy in hand, moves through IRCC on the published standard. A returned or refused file can add months and force a fresh insurance purchase. The income rules changed on March 31, 2026, so a Mississauga host who fell short last year should confirm the current test before signing a new invitation letter. Book a free 15-minute consultation with our Canadian immigration representatives, serving Mississauga in person, online, or by phone, or call 1-888-636-2122. Every consultation is with Narek Mirzoyan, RCIC # R1005184, or Vahe Mirzoyan, RCIC # R514223.
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Narek Mirzoyan is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC#R1005184) in good standing with the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants, a proud member of the Canadian Association Of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC), a Licensed Paralegal (P12490) with the Law Society of Ontario, the founder of Mirzoyan Canadian Immigration Services Inc. and an immigrated to Canada himself. That experience shapes how he explains each step to clients.
Vahe Mirzoyan is a seasoned Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC#R514223) with over a decade of dedicated experience working with individuals, corporations, and institutions on the full spectrum of Canadian immigration law. With a career built on precision, integrity, and an unwavering commitment to client success, Vahe has established himself as a trusted authority in Canadian immigration.
This page is general information about the Canadian super visa and does not constitute legal or immigration advice. Individual circumstances vary, and IRCC rules, fees, income thresholds, and processing times change without notice, including the super visa income rules updated on March 31, 2026. For advice specific to your situation, book a consultation with a licensed Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant at Mirzoyan Immigration.