You need a visa to go to the United States. Do you have to transfer in Canada?

At present, China passport holders are not completely visa-free under the Canadian visa policy, and they still need to apply for a valid "transit visa" in advance when transiting Canada.

Canadian transit visa is a kind of Canadian visa, transit visa.

If the final destination of a traveler is the United States, and his air ticket itinerary is to transfer at the Canadian airport, according to the current regulations of the Canadian Immigration Bureau and the Border Management Bureau (CBSA), under certain conditions, a traveler who transits Canada to the United States can be exempted from a Canadian transit visa.

The following conditions shall be met:

Hold a valid China passport;

Hold a valid US visa;

Take the flights of Air Canada, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Philippine Airlines, China International Airlines, China Southern Airlines and other 10 airlines;

Transfer from Canada Vancouver International Airport YVR or Toronto Pearson International Airport YYZ (1 terminal only);

You must fly directly to Canada from Asian airports such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Chengdu, Shenyang, Harbin, Manila, Taipei, Tokyo (Narita, Haneda), Seoul and Incheon.

You need to have a confirmed joint flight ticket and leave Canada for the United States within the same day.

Therefore, for example, China passengers flying from Beijing, China to Vancouver, Canada, and then to Los Angeles, USA (on the same day) may not be able to apply for a transit visa to Canada.

However, for China passport holders transiting Canada, a transit visa is required under the above circumstances!

I suggest that if time permits, you can apply for a valid Canadian transit visa regardless of whether you have an American visa or not. In this way, when you encounter some uncontrollable situations, you still have a valid transit visa, which avoids a lot of "troubles"!

Some unforeseen circumstances, such as:

1. Fly to Vancouver and alternate to other airports.

2. For flights that need to transfer to the United States at Terminal T 1 of Toronto Pearson International Airport, the boarding gate will be changed to Terminal T3.

3. The flight from Vancouver, Canada or Toronto to the United States was seriously delayed.

In the above situation, if there is no effective transit sign, it will be more troublesome!