Travel to Canada: Requirements for COVID-19 vaccinated travellers

Travellers are eligible to enter or return to Canada if they qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller.

On this page

  • Cheque if you authorize every bit a fully vaccinated traveller
  • Checklist of what to have ready at the border
  • Pre-entry testing (accepted types, timing)
  • Fix your ArriveCAN account
  • Arrival testing if selected
  • Children or dependents

Check if you qualify every bit a fully vaccinated traveller

To authorize as a fully vaccinated traveller to Canada, y'all must:

  • accept received at to the lowest degree ii doses of a COVID-nineteen vaccine accepted for travel, a mix of 2 accustomed vaccines
    • or at least one dose of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccine
  • have received your second dose at least fourteen calendar days before yous enter Canada
    • Example: if your second dose was anytime on Thursday, July i, then Th, July 15 would be the commencement 24-hour interval that yous meet the 14 twenty-four hours condition
  • take no signs or symptoms of COVID-19
  • follow pre-entry testing and entry requirements
    • upload proof of vaccination in ArriveCAN
    • complete your ArriveCAN submission and take ArriveCAN receipt with letter I, V, or A abreast your name
    • complete arrival test if selected
Accepted vaccines

Vaccines accepted by the Regime of Canada for the purpose of travel to and inside Canada:

  • AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD (ChAdOx1-S, Vaxzevria, AZD1222)
  • Bharat Biotech (Covaxin, BBV152 A, B, C)
  • Janssen/Johnson & Johnson
  • Moderna (Spikevax, mRNA-1273) including for children aged 6 to 11 years
  • Novavax (NVX-COV2373, Nuvaxovid, Covovax)
  • Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty, tozinameran, BNT162b2) including for children aged 5 to 11 years
  • Sinopharm BIBP (BBIBP-CorV)
  • Sinovac (CoronaVac, PiCoVacc)

To qualify equally a fully vaccinated traveller, y'all must have received, at to the lowest degree 14 agenda days by the day yous travel:

  • at to the lowest degree ii doses of a vaccine accustomed by the Government of Canada for the purpose of travel
  • or a mix of 2 accepted vaccines
  • or at to the lowest degree i dose of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccine
If your proof of vaccination is not in English or French

If your proof of vaccination is not in English language or French, you demand a certified translation in English or French.

Your certified translation must include the postage or membership number of a professional person translation association.

Translation of documents

Keep both the original proof of vaccination and the certified translation with y'all while you travel.

If your proof of vaccination doesn't run into all of the requirements, it will exist considered invalid. You lot will non qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller.

What is not accepted every bit a fully vaccinated traveller
Partial vaccination

You must accept received at least 2 doses of an accustomed vaccine, or a mix of two accustomed vaccines, or at least 1 dose of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccine to qualify equally a fully vaccinated traveller and be allowed to enter Canada.

Recovered from COVID-19 with merely one dose

If you've recovered from COVID-19, you still need at least 2 doses of an accepted COVID-xix vaccine or mix of 2 accepted vaccines.

If you've only had i dose of an accepted vaccine other than Janssen (Johnson & Johnson), you don't authorize for the fully vaccinated traveller exemption.

If you do not qualify for the fully vaccinated traveller exemption, you may still be able to enter Canada.
Find out if you can enter Canada

Checklist of what you need to have set up at the border

To enter or render to Canada as a fully vaccinated traveller, you must follow all of these requirements.

Whether you're driving or flying, have the post-obit items with y'all for assessment by a government official at the edge (land border crossings do not provide WiFi for travellers):

Pre-entry testing (accustomed types, timing)

Starting April 1, 2022, pre-entry tests are no longer required for fully vaccinated travellers inbound Canada by land, air or water. You must yet utilise ArriveCAN within 72 hours earlier your inflow to Canada.

Unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children five years of age or older must provide a valid pre-entry test effect, even if they are accompanying a fully vaccinated developed.

Children who are less than 5 years quondam are not required to test, regardless of their vaccination condition.

Gear up your ArriveCAN business relationship before yous travel

You must utilise the ArriveCAN mobile app or sign in on a computer to enter your proof of vaccination, quarantine and travel data.

  • Proof of vaccination and travel documents can be saved in your ArriveCAN traveller contour earlier any planned travel
  • ArriveCAN is ever gratis

To exist fix for your trip, create your complimentary ArriveCAN account

To become an ArriveCAN receipt, submit your travel and quarantine plan information inside 72 hours before your arrival to Canada.

No smartphone? Within 72 hours of your arrival in Canada, sign in to ArriveCAN from a computer to go your ArriveCAN receipt. Print your receipt and take it with you when you travel.

Upload proof of vaccination in ArriveCAN earlier you lot travel

  1. Locate the proof y'all'll need to upload

    2. Use your Canadian COVID-nineteen proof of vaccination

    Use your Canadian COVID-nineteen proof of vaccination PDF with QR lawmaking to shine your journey.

    The Canadian proof is a bilingual file that shows the country of issuance every bit Canada, the issuing province or territory, your name, and birthdate above a QR code, followed past doses received

    • If yous don't already take information technology, download a PDF file of your Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination from your province or territory
    Sample of Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination. It shows the issuing province or territory, country of issuance as Canada, personal information, vaccination doses administered and a QR code.
    Others without Canadian proof of vaccination

    The proof you lot use:

    • must be official certificates, passes, cards, receipts, or confirmations that evidence any kickoff and 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccine you received
    • tin can't prove only a QR lawmaking
    • must show as text:
      • your proper name
      • the proper noun of the government or organization who administered the vaccine
      • the make name or whatever other information that identifies the vaccine(s)
      • the date(s) you received the vaccine(s)
    • must exist in English, French, or a certified translation into English or French

    Use the original file you received, or accept a clear well-lit photograph of your newspaper proof

    • file formats accustomed: PDF, PNG, JPEG or JPG
    • maximum file size for upload: each paradigm upload has a 2 MB size limit

  2. Save or movement your proof of vaccination file(s) to take prepare to upload

    • if you'll be using the ArriveCAN mobile app, relieve the file(s) onto your phone or you can take a picture of your paper proof of vaccination
    • or if yous'll be signing into ArriveCAN online, salve onto your calculator
    • you can too transport your proof to someone who'll complete your ArriveCAN form for you lot

    To be fix for your trip, create your free ArriveCAN business relationship

  3. Upload your proof in ArriveCAN in the traveller contour

Upload your proof of vaccination and your travel documents before any planned travel:

  • Sign in to ArriveCAN from a computer or use the mobile app
  • Select 'Travellers' and '+ Add traveller' to set up your profile and the profile of other travellers who are likely to accompany you
  • Enter your travel documents and vaccination data
  • When asked to upload your proof of vaccination, click the button labelled 'Add file/photo' and select the PDF file or photograph y'all saved in Step ii or use the camera to take a picture of your proof
    • If proofs of vaccination for your first and 2d dose are in divide files or photos, click the on Add file/photo push again to upload the second proof
  • A screen will show that your traveller profile is being saved
  • You can add, delete or save travellers at any time by clicking on the 'travellers' tab at the bottom of the screen
  • Inside 72 hours before your entry, click on 'start' on the home screen to kickoff your ArriveCAN submission. You lot'll need to answer questions about your pre-entry test result, travel history, quarantine program and symptoms. To qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller, your ArriveCAN receipt must show an A, I, or 5 next to your proper name

Final determination of your vaccination status will be made at the border. You must bring a digital or paper re-create of your proof(s) of vaccination with you and go on it for xiv days after entry.

Complete your ArriveCAN class to get your receipt inside 72 hours earlier your return to Canada.

Upload your proof in ArriveCAN
Travelling with mixed vaccination condition or purposes of travel
  • Don't include other travellers who are entering Canada for other purposes of travel or who are non fully vaccinated (unless they are less than 18 years old or a dependent developed) in a unmarried submission. For example,
    • if you are a strange national, including U.s. citizens, entering Canada for discretionary purposes and are travelling with another person who is a Canadian citizen, you should complete private submissions
    • if you are travelling with a group of adult foreign national with mixed vaccination statuses, do non include unvaccinated travellers in your submission; you lot will non be issued an ArriveCAN receipt equally unvaccinated foreign national are not eligible to enter Canada for discretionary travel

People entering by land who were unaware of the mandatory utilise of ArriveCAN will be informed past a Border Services Officeholder of the mandatory requirements to submit their information through ArriveCAN and will exist immune to:

  • return to the U.S. to accept the time to complete ArriveCAN and re-enter Canada after submitting information technology or
  • consummate their ArriveCAN submission at the border crossing, if it is operationally viable

People arriving by boat (including ferry) may utilise ArriveCAN to submit your proof of vaccination within 72 hours of arriving or when you enter Canada. Travellers arriving by boat must still provide a pre-entry test within 72 hours of their planned entry into Canada.

Quarantine plan in ArriveCAN

You must be prepared to quarantine when inbound Canada equally you could be required to quarantine for 14 days if you don't meet the requirements of a fully vaccinated traveller.

A suitable quarantine plan must exist entered into ArriveCAN. You may exist asked to explain your quarantine plan at the edge.

Assess your quarantine plan
If y'all do not have a suitable place to quarantine

Some travellers may be unable to quarantine at dwelling or their last destination. In these cases, travellers are expected to brand alternative arrangements for their entry to Canada. Although alternative accommodations (e.g. with family unit or friends, or paid accommodation) may be suitable, the Regime of Canada does not reimburse for expenses incurred for accommodations, including hotels, RV rentals and trailer park or campground fees.

Make your quarantine plans in advance of your inflow to Canada. Foreign nationals who do not have a suitable plan may be denied entry into Canada. If you do not have a suitable identify to quarantine, you may be directed to a federal designated quarantine facility.

Before travellers are directed to a federal designated quarantine facility, government representatives may piece of work with them to confirm that all other options for quarantine accommodations inside their own means take been exhausted.

Where required, transportation from the border crossing to a federal designated quarantine and the cost of the facility is provided by the Government of Canada.

Troubleshooting vaccination issues in ArriveCAN

Yous didn't come across the vaccination questions in ArriveCAN or couldn't upload proof
  • If you've installed the free ArriveCAN mobile app, update information technology showtime (if yous don't have auto update on).
  • If you lot don't have a smartphone, sign in to ArriveCAN online
  • Y'all clicked to the next page without scrolling down afterward answering all the vaccination questions.
  • The vaccine y'all received is not an accustomed vaccine in Canada.
  • Your terminal dose was less than fourteen days before inbound Canada.

If you've already submitted your information and have an ArriveCAN receipt without your vaccination information (i.e., without an I or a V next to your name), starting time over in ArriveCAN earlier y'all cross the edge. ArriveCAN will clear your previous submission.

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No receipt from ArriveCAN

If ArriveCAN didn't inquire you to upload proof of vaccination, or showed a bulletin that you are not eligible to enter Canada, there are several possible reasons:

  • Y'all haven't updated your free ArriveCAN mobile app. Update it starting time (if you lot don't have car update on).
  • The vaccine you received is non an accepted vaccine.
  • Your last dose was less than 14 days before inbound Canada.

If y'all've already submitted your information and have an ArriveCAN receipt without your vaccination information (for example, without an I or a Five adjacent to your name), outset over in ArriveCAN earlier you lot cross the edge. ArriveCAN will clear your previous submission.

Contact ArriveCAN if yous receive emails or notifications

If y'all uploaded your proof of vaccination into ArriveCAN and qualified as a fully vaccinated traveller at the border (meaning that you lot have an A, I, or V adjacent to your name on your ArriveCAN receipt), you lot should non receive further emails or notifications from ArriveCAN.

If your submission included travellers who are not exempt from the requirement to quarantine (eastward.grand., unvaccinated 12- to 17-year-olds or unvaccinated dependent adults), y'all will receive ArriveCAN notifications and will be asked to complete daily reporting for the unvaccinated travellers. If yous did not accept an A, I, or 5 side by side to your proper noun on your ArriveCAN receipt, you did not authorize equally fully vaccinated and will get post-border notifications.

If you are receiving notifications that don't reverberate your situation, use the ArriveCAN contact form so that your situation tin be resolved:

Contact ArriveCAN class

Your ArriveCAN receipt doesn't include the letters I, V, or A

Y'all may see one or more letters beside your name on your receipt. This means that you may have to talk over one of the following with a Government official at the border:

  • (Q) your quarantine programme
  • (S) your symptom self-cess
  • (V) or (I) your vaccination status (ensure y'all take evidence of your proof of vaccination when you travel and be prepared to show information technology on arrival)

If there's no alphabetic character I, V, or A adjacent to your proper name

  • you aren't fully vaccinated according to Canada's requirements, or
  • yous didn't upload proof of vaccination (one paradigm for your one-dose vaccine, two images for your ii-dose vaccine, or i image that includes details of both of your doses)
  • you lot're travelling for exempt essential travel

If you've already submitted your data and accept an ArriveCAN receipt without your vaccination information (for example, without an I, V or A next to your name), kickoff over in ArriveCAN before you lot cantankerous the edge. ArriveCAN will clear your previous submission.

ArriveCAN full general troubleshooting and help

Arrival tests

Upon your entry to Canada by air or at a country edge crossing, the border services officer may notify you that y'all've been randomly selected for a mandatory arrival test.

Every bit a fully vaccinated traveller, y'all can travel to your destination, including on connecting flights, without waiting for your arrival test results (if selected for testing).

Who must take an arrival test if selected to do then upon arrival

Fully vaccinated travellers are not exempt from mandatory randomized arrival testing.

Requirements for children aged 5 to eleven accompanying fully vaccinated parents (and other eligible adults):

  • unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children must exist tested if their accompanying parent is selected for mandatory randomized testing
  • children who qualify as fully vaccinated are non required to be tested if their accompanying parent is selected for mandatory randomized testing
  • children who authorize as fully vaccinated must be tested if they are selected for mandatory randomized testing

Who is exempt from arrival testing

  • Already recovered: Travellers who provide a positive COVID-xix molecular test outcome, conducted at least 10 agenda days and no more 180 agenda days before entering Canada. Counting starts the day afterward the test is taken.
    • for example, if your positive COVID-19 molecular exam was taken on Jan i, then January 11 would exist the first day you could utilize it
    • January 11 would be the earliest scheduled departure date of your flight to Canada, or the first 24-hour interval you could use information technology to enter Canada by land or water
    • if your positive proof is accustomed yous won't take to take inflow or Solar day-8 tests
  • Travellers arriving by gunkhole
  • Children under the historic period of five
  • Crew and essential service providers already exempt from arrival testing continue to be exempt

Observe out if your travel is exempt from inflow testing

Already recovered from COVID-19

You are exempt from arrival testing if you:

  • provide a positive COVID-19 molecular exam result, conducted at least 10 calendar days and no more than 180 calendar days before entering Canada. A positive antigen examination is not accustomed.

Counting starts the 24-hour interval afterward your test.

  • for case, if your positive COVID-nineteen molecular test was taken on January i, so Jan 11 would exist the first 24-hour interval you could utilize it
  • January 11 would be the earliest scheduled departure date of your flight to Canada, or the get-go day y'all could use it to enter Canada by land or h2o
  • if your positive proof is accepted y'all won't accept to accept arrival or Day-8 tests

Air travellers: register in advance for arrival testing

Yous may be required to get tested before exiting the airdrome. To speed you through the process, register in advance with the testing provider for the aerodrome yous will arrive at.

When you register, use the same email address you used for your ArriveCAN account.

Register with airport test providers
  • Abbotsford (YXX) - LifeLabs
  • Calgary (YYC) – Switch Health
  • Edmonton (YEG) – Switch Health
  • Halifax (YHZ) – Switch Wellness
  • Hamilton (YHM) – Switch Health
  • Kelowna (YLW) - LifeLabs
  • Montreal (YUL) – Biron (no pre-registration required)
  • Ottawa (YOW) – Switch Health
  • Quebec Urban center (YQB) – Biron (no pre-registration required)
  • Regina (YQR) – LifeLabs
  • Saskatoon (YXE) - LifeLabs
  • St. John'southward (YYT) – Switch Wellness
  • Toronto (YTZ) - Switch Health
  • Toronto (YYZ) – Switch Wellness
  • Vancouver (YVR) – LifeLabs
  • Victoria (YYJ) - LifeLabs
  • Waterloo (YKF) – Switch Health
  • Winnipeg (YWG) - Dynacare
Land border exam providers

Starting Oct 29, 2021, the swab stations located at 17 land points of entry stopped operations.

When you get in at a state edge crossing, you'll exist given a self-swab kit to complete. You'll need to follow the instructions in your cocky-swab kit to complete the test at your destination.

Completing your arrival test

Follow the directions you lot receive on arrival to complete your test:

  • if y'all were directed to a testing service at the drome, y'all're required to annals with the testing service provider, and the provider will collect your sample; most travellers will be notified of their exam consequence within 72 hours
  • if you are provided with a cocky-swab kit, use the instructions in the kit to complete information technology within 24 hours of entering Canada, and arrange for it to be picked upwardly as directed in the kit. Most travellers will exist notified of their examination outcome within 4 to 7 days.

If yous haven't received your exam upshot in these fourth dimension frames, you lot should contact your exam provider.

You may not receive your examination result if:

  • you provided incorrect contact information
  • data is missing
  • the test is still being candy
  • there's an inconclusive upshot
Fines and consequences of failing to complete the testing requirements

You are under a legal obligation to accept the arrival examination within the required timeframe. If you don't comply, you may not be exempted from quarantine. You may also be required to go to a quarantine facility, face fines, or other enforcement measures.

Your arrival test results

You can take connecting flights and trains without waiting for your arrival test results.

Fully vaccinated travellers arriving from whatsoever country aren't required to quarantine while pending their test issue.

If your inflow test is negative:

  • follow local public health measures
  • wear a well-fitted mask when in public spaces for the starting time 14 days subsequently your entry;
  • maintain a listing of all shut contacts and locations y'all visit for your commencement 14 days in Canada
  • monitor yourself for signs and symptoms
  • go on copies of your proof of vaccination and pre-arrival tests for xiv days
Invalid or indeterminate results from your inflow exam

Yous must take another test.

  • If you completed your test using a kit: some other kit should be automatically couriered to yous by your testing provider but it is recommended that y'all contact the provider to ensure a kit is on its way.
  • If yous were tested on-site at the airport: contact your testing provider to observe out how to complete a re-test.

How to contact your test provider

British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon

LifeLabs manages all COVID-nineteen testing for travellers arriving at these provinces.

Phone

  • Toll-costless: 1-877-313-4982

Electronic mail

  • servicetravel.west@lifelabs.com
Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia

Switch Health manages all COVID-19 testing.

Phone

  • ane-647-977-1030
  • Toll-complimentary: 1-888-966-6531

Email

  • contact@switchhealth.ca
Manitoba

Dynacare manages all COVID-19 testing for travellers arriving in Manitoba.

Phone

  • 1-855-497-1071

Website: Dynacare border testing

Quebec

Biron manages all COVID-nineteen testing for travellers arriving in Quebec.

Biron:

Phone

  • 1-866-382-0287

Email

  • info@biron.com

Later on your inflow

For 14 days following entry into Canada, yous and any children who travelled with you must:

  • properly wear a well-constructed and well-fitting mask when in public spaces, both indoors and outdoors
  • maintain a listing of all close contacts and locations yous visit
  • keep copies of your proof of vaccination

Some federal rules after entering Canada are dissimilar from the provincial or territorial rules. In this case, you must follow the stricter rules.

Monitor for symptoms for 14 days after your arrival.

If a fully vaccinated traveller or unvaccinated child under 12 years of historic period tests positive:

  • they must isolate for x days
  • report your test results and/or symptoms to PHAC by calling 1-833-641-0343

If a parent, step-parent, guardian, or tutor a child has travelled with experiences symptoms or tests positive:

  • unvaccinated children under 12 years of historic period must quarantine for 14 days and monitor for symptoms
  • study your exam results and/or symptoms to PHAC by calling 1-833-641-0343

If a person you travelled with develops symptoms or tests positive, yous must begin a 14-twenty-four hour period quarantine period starting from your final exposure to the person.

You must provide proof of your test results, if asked, to whatever federal, provincial, territorial or municipal government official or peace officer.

Children or dependents

You and any children who travelled with you must properly wear a well-synthetic and well-plumbing fixtures mask when in public spaces for the first 14 days after your entry. This includes schools and daycares.

Children who are under 5 years of age

Children nether five are exempt from vaccination requirements. They are also exempt from pre-entry testing, arrival testing and quarantine, without any limitations on their activities.

These exemptions apply only to the kid, non to the parents, guardians or family members travelling together. Children who are 5 on the day of their travel are not exempt from testing requirements.

Children anile 5 through 11

Some federal rules for children inbound Canada may be different from the provincial or territorial rules. In this case, you must follow the stricter rules.

Fully vaccinated children

Adults travelling with fully vaccinated children should upload their children's proof of vaccination into ArriveCAN. Every bit fully vaccinated travellers, they aren't required to provide proof of a pre-entry examination result. They are as well exempt from quarantine, without whatsoever limitations on their activities.

Arrival testing for children who qualify as fully vaccinated:

  • must be tested if they are selected for mandatory randomized testing are not required to be tested if their accompanying parent is selected for mandatory randomized testing

Unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children five through 11 years old

Your accompanying unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children aged v and older must provide a valid pre-entry examination outcome.

Options for providing proof of a valid pre-entry examination

They will be exempt from quarantine, without whatever limitations on their activities. This ways, for instance, they don't need to await fourteen days before attending school, army camp or daycare. Notwithstanding they will need to wear a mask in public settings for fourteen days after inflow to Canada.

Arrival testing for unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children 5 through 11 years one-time:

  • must be tested if their accompanying parent is selected for mandatory randomized testing
Youth anile 12 to 17

Unvaccinated and partially vaccinated youth 12 to 17 years of historic period must consummate the 14-mean solar day quarantine, and all testing requirements for pre-entry, arrival and Day-8 tests, even when they are accompanied by travellers who authorize equally a fully vaccinated traveller.

Follow the checklist of testing and quarantine requirements

Unvaccinated adult dependents

Dependents, 18 years of age or over who are unvaccinated because of mental or concrete limitation may enter but must follow all testing and quarantine requirements, even when they are accompanied past parents or guardians who authorize equally a fully vaccinated traveller.

Follow the checklist of testing and quarantine requirements

ArriveCAN: If your submission includes travellers who are not exempt from the requirement to quarantine (for example, unvaccinated 12 to 17 yr-olds or unvaccinated dependent adults), you will receive ArriveCAN notifications and volition exist asked to complete daily reporting for the unvaccinated travellers.


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