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Canada

Visitor with remote work (no DNV)

PR: Indirectno programmeUTC−4

No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.

The requirements

Programme status
No dedicated nomad visa
Minimum monthly income
No fixed amount
Required savings
None
Annual total
No fixed amount
Initial duration
Up to 6 months per visit
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
Yes

No set minimum; sufficient funds and foreign income.

How this figure is set: The law asks for "sufficient means" and sets no figure. Formula: 'sufficient financial resources to support themselves'; income must be earned entirely outside Canada.

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: IRCC program delivery instructions 'Digital nomads' (Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations s.186 for work-permit exemption).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

Indirect pathway. Visitor status carries no credit; PR needs a work permit first, then Express Entry or CEC.

IRCC help centre on what counts as work for temporary residents, and the Canadian Experience Class requirements: CEC needs at least 12 months of skilled work experience IN Canada within the preceding 36 months, and IRCC warns that the general definition of work does not carry over when proving in-Canada experience for permanent residence. Remote work for a foreign employer does not produce that experience. Canada's PR routes are points and nomination based rather than time-served, so visitor time accrues nothing.

Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Ottawa sits at 45.42° N, 75.70° W.

Canada picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC−4 Toronto (America/Toronto)
  • UTC−2:30 St Johns (America/St_Johns)
  • UTC−3 Halifax (America/Halifax)
  • UTC−5 Winnipeg (America/Winnipeg)
  • UTC−6 Edmonton (America/Edmonton)
  • UTC−7 Vancouver (America/Vancouver)

Canada spans 6 offsets. The table shows the capital's.

The country

Region
Americas · Northern America
Capital
Ottawa
Currency
CAD

Nearest

The countries covered here whose capitals are closest to Ottawa.

What it costs to live there

$2,589 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Canada spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Ottawa
$2,376 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,415
Montreal
$1,956 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,071

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • English official
  • French official
  • Spanish limited
  • Chinese limited
  • Punjabi limited

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

There is no live application for Canada in this dataset. What the row records about residence: Visitor status carries no credit; PR needs a work permit first, then Express Entry or CEC.

IRCC digital nomads page ↗

eTA or visitor visa; no Canadian employer or clients.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .