Treaty Trade and Investor Visas

New REQUIRED Formatting Instructions for E-1 Treaty Trader Submissions

New REQUIRED Formatting Instructions for E-2 Treaty Investor Submissions

U.S. Consulate Toronto continues to process E visas for applicants in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, NW Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec and Saskatchewan.

U.S. Consulate Vancouver processes E visas for applicants in British Columbia, Alberta and Yukon. For more information on processing in Vancouver, please visit Vancouver's website.

E visa processing in Toronto:

Once we receive a complete E visa application with all supporting documents in the proper format and the USD visa application fee we will enter the application into our database and send the applicant a Login Letter with the Priority Date noted. We try to complete adjudication within 6-8 weeks of the Priority Date. At the end of this adjudication period, one of three steps will follow:

• If the applicant is eligible for an E visa, we will contact the applicant (or his/her attorney) by email to arrange an interview. All applicants must be seen prior to visa issuance. Principal applicants (including supervisory or essential employees) must have their interviews at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto. Dependents of principal applicants may be interviewed at another U.S. consulate in Canada, but must make their own arrangements and only after the principal applicant has physically received an E visa. For approval cases, we make every effort to allow the applicant to return to pick up the visa and passport in the afternoon of the following business day after the interview. If the applicant wishes Canada Post express mail return, the applicant must bring a prepaid Canada Post express mailer to the interview.
• If the information contained in the application is insufficient to establish eligibility and we seek more information to make a final determination we will suspend adjudication of the visa per INA 221(g). The applicant may submit, within one year, additional information addressing the reasons for the previous refusal without paying an additional application fee. The applicant MAY NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES resubmit the whole application; rather they must concisely address the points raised in our request for more information. We will enter it into the processing queue on that date we receive the resubmission. Therefore, it could take an additional 6-8weeks for us to review the application again. It is obviously in the applicant's best interest to submit a complete application the first time.
• If the applicant does not meet all of the requirements for an E visa we must find the applicant ineligible per INA 214(b). The applicant is welcome to reapply if the facts of the case change but he/she must pay the application fee again and submit an entirely new application.

• You did not submit your application following the required formatting instructions on this website. This is the most common reason that we cannot begin adjudication.
• You did not submit the most current, online version of DS-160 or the correct form of payment. To find the most recent version of all required forms, see https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and for information on fees see http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1263.html#temp.

Contacting us:

If the applicant has questions not answered in review of our website, he/she may contact the E-visa office by e-mail to evisatoronto@state.gov. Please state the applicant's name and date/country of birth in all correspondence.