Before you start
- Use only your own government account.
- Never share government or email credentials.
- Confirm fees, deadlines and checklists when you act.
CHANGING CONDITIONS
Restoration is deadline-sensitive and does not itself authorize work or study. Verify the live rule immediately and seek qualified advice for uncertain status facts.
REVIEWED STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
Responsibilities, outputs and checkpoints
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Identify the status loss
Record the temporary status held, its exact expiry, passport validity and every work, study or visitor condition that may have ended.
- Expected output
- A dated chronology of status and conditions.
- Checkpoint
- Dates are taken from official documents and account records, not memory alone.
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Stop activity not currently authorized
Do not work or study after the applicable authorization ends unless the current official rules clearly preserve that authorization for the recorded filing facts.
- Expected output
- A dated record that unauthorized work or study has stopped.
- Checkpoint
- No maintained-status protection is assumed for a restoration filing.
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Verify the live restoration deadline
Use the current IRCC instructions to verify whether restoration is still available and which temporary document or condition request must accompany it.
- Expected output
- The restoration branch, live deadline and accompanying request are recorded.
- Checkpoint
- If the deadline or legal status is uncertain, the case is escalated for qualified advice rather than guessed.
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Prepare the restoration explanation and evidence
Prepare the factual explanation, passport and prior permit or visitor record, proof of current circumstances and every item on the current account-generated checklist.
- Expected output
- A dated restoration evidence package indexed to the current checklist.
- Checkpoint
- The explanation states known dates and facts without minimizing, inventing or providing legal argument.
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Submit and retain the restoration record
Complete the restoration and related temporary-status application in your own account, pay the current government fees directly and save the full confirmation.
- Expected output
- An official submission confirmation, receipt and package copy.
- Checkpoint
- The submission identifies restoration and the correct related document request; it is not recorded as an ordinary extension.
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Wait for and follow the decision
Remain within the activity limits described by IRCC, monitor the account, answer requests by their dates and follow the approval or refusal instructions exactly.
- Expected output
- The decision, issued document and any response records are organized.
- Checkpoint
- Work or study resumes only when a current official authorization permits it.
Official source reviewed · 2026-07-13Visitor record: After you apply · www.canada.ca
DOCUMENT PREPARATION SUMMARY
What this procedure organizes
- Prepare the expired status document and passport, a precise status/activity chronology, the factual restoration explanation, current circumstance evidence, the personalized checklist, related temporary-document forms, receipts and IRCC messages.