Filing your E-2 visa at the U.S. Consulate Quebec City

Organise the package into tabbed sections with dividers. Where a numbered section holds more than two documents, subdivide it into lettered subsections.

That subdivision rule is the detail most often skipped, and it is the one that matters most in the room. A section labelled simply "Investment" holding nine documents forces the officer to hunt. The same section broken into lettered parts does not.

Dividers cost nothing here. Canada exempts tabs and dividers from the 50-page limit, along with the DS-160 confirmation, DS-156E, G-28, appointment confirmation letter, civil documents and the passport bio-page copy.

Email the complete package as a single PDF, in a single attachment, to EVisaCanada@state.gov. No ZIP archives and no shared folders — the unit cannot open them.

The attachment is capped at 20 MB and the package at 50 pages. Where that is tight, the mission suggests the short business plan option rather than thinning the evidence.

Canada asks you not to quote the FAM or CFR at length in the cover letter, and to state precisely how the enterprise and the applicant qualify instead.

This is a house style worth respecting. The officer knows the regulation; what they cannot supply is your facts. A letter that spends its length reciting the standard and then asserts you meet it has spent its length on the wrong half.

We score Quebec City a 0 for third-country nationals, the bottom of our scale, alongside Halifax. An applicant without a Canadian tie should expect real difficulty being scheduled here.

Since one E-visa unit reads every Canadian case, choosing a more open post — Toronto scores a 3 — costs nothing in how the application is assessed. The score describes willingness to schedule, not eligibility for approval.

There is no single total. The MRV fee is fixed, published and tied to your DS-160. Preparation costs vary with the case, and the required printed package adds a real production cost — printing, tabs, dividers and binding for a document of up to 50 pages plus exempt material.

Check the current published MRV fee before you pay.

The Department of State publishes appointment wait times by post, and the Canadian posts appear separately. Because the same unit reads every Canadian case, those published differences are the clearest lever you have on timing.

Any post-interview administrative processing sits on top and is not uniform across applicants.

The E-2 is a nonimmigrant treaty investor visa open to nationals of countries holding a qualifying treaty of commerce with the United States, and Canada is one of those treaty countries. You must have invested, or be actively in the process of investing, a substantial amount of your own at-risk capital in a real and operating U.S. business that you will direct and develop.

The enterprise must be at least 50 percent owned by persons holding the treaty nationality, or controlled by a qualifying national. A Canadian applicant’s own eligibility does not survive a non-treaty partner holding the majority stake.