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

  • Check if you authorize as a fully vaccinated traveller
  • Checklist of what to take set at the border
  • Pre-entry testing (accustomed types, timing)
  • Fix upward your ArriveCAN account
  • Arrival testing if selected
  • Children or dependents

Check if yous qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller

To qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller to Canada, you lot must:

  • accept received at least 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine accepted for travel, a mix of 2 accepted vaccines
    • or at least 1 dose of the Janssen/Johnson & Johnson vaccine
  • accept received your 2d dose at to the lowest degree 14 agenda days before y'all enter Canada
    • Example: if your second dose was anytime on Thursday, July 1, then Thursday, July 15 would exist the first twenty-four hours that yous meet the xiv 24-hour interval condition
  • have 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 accept ArriveCAN receipt with letter I, V, or A beside your name
    • complete arrival test if selected
Accepted vaccines

Vaccines accepted past the Government of Canada for the purpose of travel to and within Canada:

  • AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD (ChAdOx1-S, Vaxzevria, AZD1222)
  • India 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 every bit a fully vaccinated traveller, you must have received, at to the lowest degree 14 agenda days by the day you travel:

  • at least 2 doses of a vaccine accustomed by the Government of Canada for the purpose of travel
  • or a mix of 2 accepted vaccines
  • or at least 1 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, yous need a certified translation in English language or French.

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

Translation of documents

Go along both the original proof of vaccination and the certified translation with you while you lot travel.

If your proof of vaccination doesn't meet all of the requirements, it will be considered invalid. You will non authorize equally a fully vaccinated traveller.

What is not accustomed as a fully vaccinated traveller
Partial vaccination

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

Recovered from COVID-19 with only ane dose

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

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

If you lot practice not qualify for the fully vaccinated traveller exemption, you may still be able to enter Canada.
Observe out if you tin enter Canada

Checklist of what you need to have ready at the border

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

Whether y'all're driving or flight, take the following items with you lot for cess by a government official at the edge (land border crossings do not provide WiFi for travellers):

Pre-entry testing (accepted types, timing)

Starting Apr 1, 2022, pre-entry tests are no longer required for fully vaccinated travellers entering Canada by land, air or water. You must still utilize ArriveCAN inside 72 hours earlier your arrival to Canada.

Unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children 5 years of age or older must provide a valid pre-entry exam effect, fifty-fifty if they are accompanying a fully vaccinated developed.

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

Set upward your ArriveCAN account before you lot travel

Y'all must use the ArriveCAN mobile app or sign in on a computer to enter your proof of vaccination, quarantine and travel information.

  • Proof of vaccination and travel documents can be saved in your ArriveCAN traveller profile before whatever planned travel
  • ArriveCAN is always free

To be ready for your trip, create your free ArriveCAN account

To get an ArriveCAN receipt, submit your travel and quarantine plan information within 72 hours earlier your inflow to Canada.

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

Upload proof of vaccination in ArriveCAN before you travel

  1. Locate the proof you'll need to upload

    2. Use your Canadian COVID-19 proof of vaccination

    Use your Canadian COVID-xix proof of vaccination PDF with QR code to smooth your journey.

    The Canadian proof is a bilingual file that shows the country of issuance as Canada, the issuing province or territory, your proper noun, and birthdate above a QR lawmaking, followed by doses received

    • If you lot 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 yous use:

    • must be official certificates, passes, cards, receipts, or confirmations that show any first and second doses of COVID-nineteen vaccine you received
    • can't evidence only a QR code
    • must show every bit text:
      • your name
      • the name of the regime or organization who administered the vaccine
      • the brand name or any other data that identifies the vaccine(southward)
      • the date(s) you received the vaccine(south)
    • must exist in English, French, or a certified translation into English language or French

    Use the original file you received, or have a clear well-lit photo of your paper proof

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

  2. Save or move your proof of vaccination file(s) to have fix to upload

    • if you'll be using the ArriveCAN mobile app, salvage the file(s) onto your telephone or yous can take a moving-picture show of your paper proof of vaccination
    • or if you'll be signing into ArriveCAN online, save onto your figurer
    • y'all tin can also send your proof to someone who'll consummate your ArriveCAN form for you

    To be ready for your trip, create your free ArriveCAN account

  3. Upload your proof in ArriveCAN in the traveller profile

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

  • Sign in to ArriveCAN from a computer or utilise the mobile app
  • Select 'Travellers' and '+ Add traveller' to fix your profile and the profile of other travellers who are likely to accompany you
  • Enter your travel documents and vaccination information
  • When asked to upload your proof of vaccination, click the push labelled 'Add file/photo' and select the PDF file or photo yous saved in Footstep two or utilise the photographic camera to take a motion picture of your proof
    • If proofs of vaccination for your first and second dose are in separate files or photos, click the on Add file/photo button again to upload the 2d proof
  • A screen volition show that your traveller profile is being saved
  • You can add, delete or save travellers at whatever time past clicking on the 'travellers' tab at the bottom of the screen
  • Within 72 hours earlier your entry, click on 'start' on the home screen to start your ArriveCAN submission. You'll need to answer questions about your pre-entry test upshot, travel history, quarantine program and symptoms. To qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller, your ArriveCAN receipt must testify an A, I, or V adjacent to your proper noun

Final determination of your vaccination condition will be made at the border. Y'all must bring a digital or paper re-create of your proof(s) of vaccination with y'all and continue information technology for 14 days afterwards entry.

Consummate your ArriveCAN form to get your receipt within 72 hours before 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 not fully vaccinated (unless they are less than 18 years old or a dependent adult) in a single submission. For example,
    • if y'all are a foreign national, including The states citizens, entering Canada for discretionary purposes and are travelling with some other person who is a Canadian denizen, you should complete individual submissions
    • if you are travelling with a group of adult foreign national with mixed vaccination statuses, do not include unvaccinated travellers in your submission; you will not exist issued an ArriveCAN receipt as unvaccinated foreign national are not eligible to enter Canada for discretionary travel

People inbound past land who were unaware of the mandatory utilize of ArriveCAN will be informed by a Border Services Officer of the mandatory requirements to submit their data through ArriveCAN and volition exist immune to:

  • render to the U.Southward. to take the time to consummate ArriveCAN and re-enter Canada subsequently submitting it or
  • complete their ArriveCAN submission at the border crossing, if it is operationally feasible

People arriving past boat (including ferry) may use ArriveCAN to submit your proof of vaccination within 72 hours of arriving or when you lot enter Canada. Travellers arriving by gunkhole 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 entering Canada as you could exist required to quarantine for 14 days if y'all don't see the requirements of a fully vaccinated traveller.

A suitable quarantine plan must exist entered into ArriveCAN. Yous may exist asked to explain your quarantine programme at the border.

Assess your quarantine program
If you do non accept a suitable place to quarantine

Some travellers may exist unable to quarantine at home or their final destination. In these cases, travellers are expected to make culling arrangements for their entry to Canada. Although alternative accommodations (e.thou. with family or friends, or paid adaptation) may be suitable, the Government of Canada does non reimburse for expenses incurred for accommodations, including hotels, RV rentals and trailer park or campground fees.

Make your quarantine plans in accelerate of your arrival to Canada. Foreign nationals who do not accept a suitable plan may be denied entry into Canada. If you do non have a suitable place to quarantine, y'all may be directed to a federal designated quarantine facility.

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

Where required, transportation from the edge crossing to a federal designated quarantine and the cost of the facility is provided past the Authorities of Canada.

Troubleshooting vaccination issues in ArriveCAN

You didn't meet the vaccination questions in ArriveCAN or couldn't upload proof
  • If yous've installed the gratis ArriveCAN mobile app, update it showtime (if you don't take machine update on).
  • If y'all don't take a smartphone, sign in to ArriveCAN online
  • You lot clicked to the next page without scrolling downwards after answering all the vaccination questions.
  • The vaccine you received is not an accustomed vaccine in Canada.
  • Your concluding dose was less than xiv days earlier entering Canada.

If you've already submitted your information and have an ArriveCAN receipt without your vaccination information (i.e., without an I or a Five next to your proper noun), start over in ArriveCAN before y'all cross the border. ArriveCAN volition clear your previous submission.

Use ArriveCAN – Information technology's gratis, download the mobile app or sign in online

No receipt from ArriveCAN

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

  • Yous haven't updated your free ArriveCAN mobile app. Update it first (if you lot don't take automobile update on).
  • The vaccine you received is not an accepted vaccine.
  • Your last dose was less than xiv days before inbound Canada.

If you've already submitted your information and have an ArriveCAN receipt without your vaccination information (for example, without an I or a Five next to your name), start over in ArriveCAN before you cross the border. ArriveCAN will clear your previous submission.

Contact ArriveCAN if you receive emails or notifications

If you lot uploaded your proof of vaccination into ArriveCAN and qualified as a fully vaccinated traveller at the border (pregnant that you have an A, I, or V next to your proper name on your ArriveCAN receipt), you should not receive farther emails or notifications from ArriveCAN.

If your submission included travellers who are not exempt from the requirement to quarantine (e.g., unvaccinated 12- to 17-year-olds or unvaccinated dependent adults), y'all will receive ArriveCAN notifications and volition be asked to complete daily reporting for the unvaccinated travellers. If yous did not have an A, I, or V side by side to your name on your ArriveCAN receipt, you did non qualify equally fully vaccinated and will become post-edge notifications.

If y'all are receiving notifications that don't reflect your situation, use the ArriveCAN contact form so that your situation tin can exist resolved:

Contact ArriveCAN form

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

You may see 1 or more than letters beside your name on your receipt. This means that you may have to hash out one of the following with a Government official at the border:

  • (Q) your quarantine program
  • (South) your symptom self-cess
  • (V) or (I) your vaccination status (ensure you have evidence of your proof of vaccination when you travel and be prepared to show it on arrival)

If at that place'due south no alphabetic character I, V, or A adjacent to your name

  • yous aren't fully vaccinated co-ordinate to Canada's requirements, or
  • yous didn't upload proof of vaccination (i prototype for your one-dose vaccine, 2 images for your two-dose vaccine, or 1 image that includes details of both of your doses)
  • you're travelling for exempt essential travel

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

ArriveCAN general troubleshooting and help

Inflow tests

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

As a fully vaccinated traveller, you can travel to your destination, including on connecting flights, without waiting for your arrival examination results (if selected for testing).

Who must have an arrival examination if selected to do and so upon arrival

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

Requirements for children aged v to 11 accompanying fully vaccinated parents (and other eligible adults):

  • unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children must be 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 qualify 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-19 molecular exam result, conducted at least 10 calendar days and no more than 180 calendar days before inbound Canada. Counting starts the twenty-four hour period after the test is taken.
    • for example, if your positive COVID-19 molecular test was taken on January 1, then January xi would be the first day y'all could use it
    • January 11 would exist the primeval scheduled departure date of your flight to Canada, or the offset day y'all could apply it to enter Canada by land or water
    • if your positive proof is accepted you won't have to accept arrival or Day-8 tests
  • Travellers arriving by boat
  • Children under the age of 5
  • Crew and essential service providers already exempt from arrival testing continue to be exempt

Find out if your travel is exempt from arrival testing

Already recovered from COVID-xix

You are exempt from arrival testing if you:

  • provide a positive COVID-19 molecular test upshot, conducted at least 10 calendar days and no more than 180 calendar days before entering Canada. A positive antigen test is non accepted.

Counting starts the day after your test.

  • for instance, if your positive COVID-nineteen molecular exam was taken on Jan one, then January 11 would be the first twenty-four hour period you lot could apply it
  • January 11 would exist the earliest scheduled deviation date of your flight to Canada, or the first day y'all could employ it to enter Canada by country or water
  • if your positive proof is accepted you won't take to take arrival or Solar day-8 tests

Air travellers: register in advance for arrival testing

You may be required to get tested before exiting the drome. To speed you through the procedure, register in advance with the testing provider for the drome yous will make it at.

When you register, employ the aforementioned email address you used for your ArriveCAN account.

Register with aerodrome test providers
  • Abbotsford (YXX) - LifeLabs
  • Calgary (YYC) – Switch Wellness
  • 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 Wellness
  • Quebec City (YQB) – Biron (no pre-registration required)
  • Regina (YQR) – LifeLabs
  • Saskatoon (YXE) - LifeLabs
  • St. John's (YYT) – Switch Health
  • Toronto (YTZ) - Switch Health
  • Toronto (YYZ) – Switch Health
  • Vancouver (YVR) – LifeLabs
  • Victoria (YYJ) - LifeLabs
  • Waterloo (YKF) – Switch Wellness
  • Winnipeg (YWG) - Dynacare
Land border test providers

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

When you arrive at a land border crossing, y'all'll exist given a self-swab kit to complete. You'll need to follow the instructions in your self-swab kit to consummate the test at your destination.

Completing your arrival test

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

  • if you were directed to a testing service at the airport, you're required to register with the testing service provider, and the provider will collect your sample; most travellers will be notified of their test result inside 72 hours
  • if yous are provided with a self-swab kit, apply the instructions in the kit to complete it inside 24 hours of entering Canada, and arrange for it to be picked up as directed in the kit. Virtually travellers will exist notified of their test result within 4 to 7 days.

If you haven't received your test result in these time frames, yous should contact your test provider.

You may not receive your test issue if:

  • yous provided incorrect contact information
  • information is missing
  • the exam is still being processed
  • there'southward an inconclusive result
Fines and consequences of failing to complete the testing requirements

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

Your arrival examination results

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

Fully vaccinated travellers arriving from any land aren't required to quarantine while awaiting their test result.

If your inflow test is negative:

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

You must take another examination.

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

How to contact your examination provider

British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon

LifeLabs manages all COVID-19 testing for travellers arriving at these provinces.

Phone

  • Toll-free: i-877-313-4982

Electronic mail

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

Switch Wellness manages all COVID-xix testing.

Phone

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

E-mail

  • contact@switchhealth.ca
Manitoba

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

Telephone

  • 1-855-497-1071

Website: Dynacare border testing

Quebec

Biron manages all COVID-19 testing for travellers arriving in Quebec.

Biron:

Phone

  • 1-866-382-0287

Email

  • info@biron.com

After your arrival

For xiv days following entry into Canada, you and whatever children who travelled with y'all must:

  • properly clothing a well-constructed and well-fitting mask when in public spaces, both indoors and outdoors
  • maintain a list of all close contacts and locations you visit
  • go on copies of your proof of vaccination

Some federal rules after entering Canada are dissimilar from the provincial or territorial rules. In this instance, 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 age tests positive:

  • they must isolate for 10 days
  • written report your test results and/or symptoms to PHAC past calling one-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 age must quarantine for 14 days and monitor for symptoms
  • report your examination results and/or symptoms to PHAC by calling 1-833-641-0343

If a person y'all travelled with develops symptoms or tests positive, you lot must begin a 14-mean solar day quarantine menstruum starting from your last exposure to the person.

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

Children or dependents

Yous and any children who travelled with you lot must properly clothing a well-constructed and well-plumbing equipment mask when in public spaces for the showtime xiv days after your entry. This includes schools and daycares.

Children who are under 5 years of historic period

Children under five are exempt from vaccination requirements. They are too exempt from pre-entry testing, inflow testing and quarantine, without whatever limitations on their activities.

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

Children aged 5 through 11

Some federal rules for children entering Canada may be unlike 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'south proof of vaccination into ArriveCAN. Equally fully vaccinated travellers, they aren't required to provide proof of a pre-entry test result. They are also exempt from quarantine, without any limitations on their activities.

Arrival testing for children who qualify equally 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 5 through eleven years former

Your accompanying unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children aged 5 and older must provide a valid pre-entry test effect.

Options for providing proof of a valid pre-entry test

They will be exempt from quarantine, without whatever limitations on their activities. This means, for case, they don't demand to wait xiv days before attending school, camp or daycare. All the same they will demand to habiliment a mask in public settings for 14 days after arrival to Canada.

Inflow testing for unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children five through xi years old:

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

Unvaccinated and partially vaccinated youth 12 to 17 years of age must complete the 14-day quarantine, and all testing requirements for pre-entry, arrival and 24-hour interval-8 tests, even when they are accompanied by travellers who qualify as a fully vaccinated traveller.

Follow the checklist of testing and quarantine requirements

Unvaccinated adult dependents

Dependents, 18 years of historic period or over who are unvaccinated considering of mental or physical limitation may enter but must follow all testing and quarantine requirements, fifty-fifty when they are accompanied by parents or guardians who qualify 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 year-olds or unvaccinated dependent adults), you will receive ArriveCAN notifications and will be asked to complete daily reporting for the unvaccinated travellers.


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