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The short answer: a Canada eTA is linked to a passport, not to your surname, so a name change on its own does nothing to it. While you still travel on the passport in your old name, the eTA issued for that passport keeps working, and any new application carries the name printed in the passport you will fly with. Once a new passport in your married (or earlier) name is issued, it needs its own eTA, and you can apply for a Canada eTA as soon as the new passport is in your hands. get-eta.com is a paid private service, separate from the Government of Canada. ...

The short answer: yes. For a visa-exempt traveller arriving by air, a trip to see a doctor, have surgery or accompany a patient takes the same eTA as any other visit. Canada’s visitor rules don’t list a separate medical visa or medical eTA. What changes is everything around it: the eTA form asks about tuberculosis and certain health conditions, a stay longer than six months can trigger a medical exam, Canada doesn’t pay visitors’ medical bills, and if treatment will take longer than six months you need to say so at the border or extend your stay. Each person travelling, patient and companion alike, needs their own eTA, and the next step is to apply for a Canada eTA, which can be done before the appointment is booked. get-eta.com is a paid private service, separate from the Government of Canada. ...

The short answer: yes, you can fly to Canada on a passport that expires soon, as long as it has not expired by the day you travel, but your eTA stops working the day that passport expires, and without a date stamped by the border officer your stay also ends on that day even if six months haven’t passed. If you renew the passport before the trip, the old eTA does not move to the new one, so you apply for a new eTA with the new passport details before you book or board. get-eta.com is a paid private service, separate from the Government of Canada. ...

The short answer: an airline can only see an eTA that is linked to the exact passport you hand over, so “eTA not found” almost always means a passport mismatch (a typo, a renewed passport, the wrong one of two passports) or an application that has no decision yet. Check the passport number in your approval email against your passport, then check your eTA status with your application number and passport details; if the eTA really is tied to a different passport, you have to apply again, and if the new decision doesn’t come in time, the flight has to be rebooked. get-eta.com is a paid private service, separate from the Government of Canada. ...

The short answer: no. Applying for a Canada eTA does not require travel insurance, health insurance, or proof of either one. The application form never asks about it, and nothing on the Government of Canada’s eTA pages lists insurance as a requirement. What the form does ask for is a valid passport, an inbox you check regularly, and a card to cover the government fee. Insurance is a separate, personal decision that has nothing to do with whether your eTA gets approved. ...

The short answer: showing up as an attendee, speaker or booth exhibitor at a Canadian conference or trade fair is a business visit, so a visa-exempt traveller applies for the same eTA used for a holiday. What decides the document is who pays you while you’re there, not how commercial the event looks. Walking the show floor, sitting in sessions, or working your own company’s booth keeps you on the visitor side. Getting paid directly by a Canadian exhibitor or event organizer does not. ...

The short answer: attending meetings, negotiations, a conference, or general business activities in Canada is treated as a visit, not work, so a visa-exempt traveller uses the same eTA as a tourist. The line that matters is whether you will actually be employed or paid by a Canadian employer while you are there. Meetings, deal-making and observing operations stay on the visitor side of that line; doing the job itself does not. ...

The short answer: visiting family or friends in Canada does not need a different document from any other short trip. If you hold a passport from a visa-exempt country and you are flying in, you apply for the same eTA that a tourist or a business traveller uses. The application form does not ask you to choose a category such as “family visit” or pick a visa type the way some countries’ immigration forms do. It asks about your passport, your background, and general travel details, and it treats a trip to see relatives the same way it treats a holiday. ...

The short answer: the official Canada eTA application form is available in English and French only, but the Government of Canada publishes descriptions of each form field in 18 languages, English and French included, and a help guide in about 20. So you can apply in English or French with help in your own language beside you. The form also asks which language you prefer for contact, and that choice affects how IRCC writes to you, not the language of the form itself. ...

The short answer: the Canada eTA fee is small, and the Government of Canada accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, prepaid versions of those three, Visa Debit, Debit Mastercard, UnionPay and JCB. The fee is non-refundable, and it is charged when you press “Transmit and pay”. If a card is declined, the usual causes are a bank block on an online purchase in a foreign currency, a wrong billing detail, or a card type that is not on the list. ...