{"id":24563,"date":"2012-02-29T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-tester.blawgcloud.com\/canada-entry-dui-conviction\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:06:46","slug":"canada-entry-dui-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/canada-entry-dui-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada allows entry if you have a DUI conviction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-836 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/canadian-flag-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Canada DUI Entry from Maine and Canada TRP DUI\" width=\"314\" height=\"208\" \/>For years I have advised clients that a single DUI will bar entry into Canada for ten years and two convictions will bar you for life.\u00a0 Starting March 1, 2012, some of that will change. Immigration Canada has bowed to pressure from the Canadian tourist industry and has modified Canada DUI rules.\u00a0 Those businesses were losing millions of dollars every year because customers were being turned back at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Under new policies people with one DUI conviction that is not too recent will be permitted to entry to Canada with a DUI on a Temporary Resident Permit (Canada TRP DUI) without a fee.\u00a0 People with more than one criminal conviction, whether they are DUIs or other crimes, will still be barred unless they obtain a TRP or a certificate of rehabilitation under the old rules.<\/p>\n<p>You should still plan ahead and learn more about Canada entry requirements for DUI.\u00a0 It is not clear yet how recent or how serious a DUI must be to bar you.\u00a0 You should contact Immigration Canada at the Point of Entry where you plan to enter Canada to determine their interpretation before you go. It used to be that Canada does not allow DUI entry, but that is changing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/canada-entry-dui-conviction\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Canada allows entry if you have a DUI conviction.\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I have advised clients that a single DUI will bar entry into Canada for ten years and two convictions will bar you for life.\u00a0 Starting March 1, 2012, some of that will change. Immigration Canada has bowed to pressure from the Canadian tourist industry and has modified Canada DUI rules.\u00a0 Those businesses were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-and-dui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canada Allows Entry if You Have a Previous DUI Conviction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Under new policies people with one DUI that is not too recent will be permitted to enter Canada on a Temporary Resident Permit without a fee.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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