Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2002-227)

Marginal note:Business visitors

• 187 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 186(a), a business visitor to Canada is a foreign national who is described in subsection (2) or who seeks to engage in international business activities in Canada without directly entering the Canadian labour market.

• Marginal note:Specific cases

  (2) The following foreign nationals are business visitors:

  • (a) foreign nationals purchasing Canadian goods or services for a foreign business or government, or receiving training or familiarization in respect of such goods or services;

  • (b) foreign nationals receiving or giving training within a Canadian parent or subsidiary of the corporation that employs them outside Canada, if any production of goods or services that results from the training is incidental; and

  • (c) foreign nationals representing a foreign business or government for the purpose of selling goods for that business or government, if the foreign national is not engaged in making sales to the general public in Canada.

• Marginal note:Factors

  (3) For the purpose of subsection (1), a foreign national seeks to engage in international business activities in Canada without directly entering the Canadian labour market only if

  • (a) the primary source of remuneration for the business activities is outside Canada; and

  • (b) the principal place of business and actual place of accrual of profits remain predominately outside Canada.