Booking for Canada Transit Visa
Aug 3, 2018, 7:40 am
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: SJO - MAN - LAX
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Booking for Canada Transit Visa
Hi All,
I took advantage of a UA offer that has an open jaw from LAX-PEK-LAX-YYZ in November. It had to finish in Canada for it to work. I'm hopping off at LAX and just taking a flight back home from LAX (I'm Costa RIcan). I'm eligible for a free transit visa but i need a booking to show my flight out of Canada for the visa application. Apparently at PEK they will actually check if I have a Canadian visa.
There's a few options but I wanted to hear opinions/ideas:
A) I could buy a ticket, get the confirmation and use that. Cancel booking within 24 hours and get my money back.
B) I could use a dummy booking from a travel agency, which is a reservation but not booking. I've seen lots of articles online about people using these for visa's to tons of countries but I can't find reputable reviews for the websites. This is what I'm inclined to.
C) Buy flexible refundable tickets, and read the terms like a hawk and get my money back after visa secured.
I'm inclined for A/B but not C because it takes about 45 days to get your money back in Costa Rica to debit cards. I don't use credit cards because I've never liked them so that's not an option.
Thank you for the help.
I took advantage of a UA offer that has an open jaw from LAX-PEK-LAX-YYZ in November. It had to finish in Canada for it to work. I'm hopping off at LAX and just taking a flight back home from LAX (I'm Costa RIcan). I'm eligible for a free transit visa but i need a booking to show my flight out of Canada for the visa application. Apparently at PEK they will actually check if I have a Canadian visa.
There's a few options but I wanted to hear opinions/ideas:
A) I could buy a ticket, get the confirmation and use that. Cancel booking within 24 hours and get my money back.
B) I could use a dummy booking from a travel agency, which is a reservation but not booking. I've seen lots of articles online about people using these for visa's to tons of countries but I can't find reputable reviews for the websites. This is what I'm inclined to.
C) Buy flexible refundable tickets, and read the terms like a hawk and get my money back after visa secured.
I'm inclined for A/B but not C because it takes about 45 days to get your money back in Costa Rica to debit cards. I don't use credit cards because I've never liked them so that's not an option.
Thank you for the help.
