Canada visitor visa refused on travel history
Travel to any country counts, not only to Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom or the Schengen area. Having none is not a refusal reason on its own, but it removes the easiest proof that you return.
Paste your refusal letter. See the grounds they used and the route you have. Free, no email.
What the ground says
IRPR 179(b), refusal reason: travel history
I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay, based on your travel history.
Whether you have travelled and complied before.
What the officer is reading
Stamps. Entry and exit, on time, in a passport they can see. A visa you held and used properly is worth more than any letter about your intentions, because it is a record of you doing the thing you are promising to do.
If you have none
Say so, plainly, and put the weight elsewhere: employment with approved leave, dependants, property, a business with filings. Some applicants build a record deliberately, with a short regional trip before reapplying. That is a real strategy, and it takes months rather than days.
If you have some
Send every passport, including expired ones, and photograph every stamped page rather than summarising. Where a stamp is unclear, add the boarding pass or the travel record.
Your route
Reapply. Where a previous refusal is part of your history, declare it and answer the ground it used in the cover letter.
Evidence that addresses it
- All passports including expired ones, showing visas and stamps
- Boarding passes or travel records where stamps are unclear
- A short explanation where there is no travel history, with the ties that answer it instead
- Any previous refusal notice, with what has changed since
Your route
Reapply
There is no appeal against a visitor visa refusal and no limit on reapplying. A new application is assessed on its own evidence, so it only helps if the ticked reasons are answered and something has changed.
Judicial review, within 60 days
Judicial review asks the Federal Court whether the decision was reasonable. It does not re-decide the application, it needs leave, and it needs a Canadian lawyer. The deadline is 60 days from the decision for an applicant outside Canada.
This route needs a regulated adviser.
IRCC refusal letters tick reasons from a fixed list and cite paragraph 179(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations. The officer's notes in the Global Case Management System give the fuller reasoning and can be requested.
Reapply, £49
We read the refusal, name the grounds and the route, check every ground against your documents with the refused ones held open, and write the reapplication letter that answers each one by its reference. Re-runs and second-refusal handling included for 30 days.