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- Instant appointment alerts
- One subscription for all travellers
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Schengen visa appointment in Canada: 14 VFS Global centres
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- 14Canadian centres
- 14Schengen destinations tracked
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- One operator to learn: VFS Global, checked day and night
- Booked in your name. We never resell or hold slots.
If you live in Canada and your passport needs a Schengen visa, you apply to the consulate of the country you will spend the most nights in, and the appointment is taken at a VFS Global centre — 14 of them across Canada, from Ottawa and Toronto to Moncton, Regina and Victoria. This is a single-operator market: every Schengen route VisaBot monitors in Canada runs through VFS Global, not TLScontact and not BLS International. VisaBot watches those calendars around the clock — Notifications alerts you the second a date opens, AutoBooking completes the booking in your name at the official centre. The decision on any visa application rests solely with the relevant authorities.
On a Canadian passport a short trip needs no Schengen visa, and ETIAS is an online travel authorisation, not a visa: no appointment, no centre. This page is for the two groups who do need a date: residents of Canada whose passport requires a Schengen visa, and Canadians applying for a long-stay French national visa — study, residence or the Franco-Canadian working-holiday scheme.
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AutoBooking
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C$180per applicant
Best for busy people that can't respond right away to notifications.
- Bot books appointments for you
- One subscription for all travellers
- Catches every available slot
Three steps, and the VFS calendar stops being your problem
- 1
Subscribe, on the site or in the app. Pick the destination, the Canadian city you can get to and the visa category. One Notifications subscription covers everyone on the same application.
- 2
VisaBot watches the centre's own calendar. In Canada that is VFS Global for every destination we cover: one booking system, one set of quirks. The bot re-checks through the night and over weekends — a date released during Ottawa office hours opens at 05:00 in Vancouver.
- 3
A date appears. Notifications sends the alert to your email and phone; AutoBooking completes the booking for your applicants at the official centre, in your name.
More on the mechanics behind that watching: how appointment bots actually work.
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Notifications vs AutoBooking, decided by how fast you can react
Both plans watch the same VFS Global calendars. The difference is who clicks when a date appears.
Notifications
- What it does
- Emails and pushes you the moment a date opens on your route
- When it wins
- You can drop everything and book within minutes
- What you do
- Book the slot yourself on the VFS Global site
- Travellers
- One subscription covers everyone on the application
- Price
- from C$65 per month
- Renewal
- 30 days, then it expires. No auto-renewal.
AutoBooking
- What it does
- Books for your applicants, in your name, at the official centre
- When it wins
- You are at work or asleep, or the route moves faster than a login
- What you do
- Give applicant details up front
- Travellers
- Priced per applicant
- Price
- from C$180 per applicant
- Renewal
- Same subscription window
A family of four in Winnipeg flying to the Netherlands.
One Notifications subscription covers all four, so if somebody at home can react to a push, that is the cheaper route. AutoBooking is per applicant and has to land a date with four places free at once.
You keep Pacific hours and the date opens while you are asleep.
Nobody in Vancouver is watching a calendar at 05:00, and a busy route can lose a date in the time it takes to log in. That is what AutoBooking is for.
Your nearest centre only handles France and the Netherlands.
From Regina, Saskatoon, Moncton or Victoria that is the whole menu: subscribe for a centre you can travel to, and set a date window wide enough that the flight still makes sense when the alert lands.
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The Canadian application map: 14 centres, 14 destinations, 311 routes
VisaBot monitors 311 routes in Canada — one route is Canadian city × destination country × visa category — across 14 cities, all run by VFS Global, leading to 14 Schengen destinations.
- 311monitored routes
- 14Canadian cities with a centre
- 14Schengen destinations
- 89of those routes are France
| Canadian city | Centre operator | Destinations served | Routes monitored |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa, ON | VFS Global | 13 | 74 |
| Toronto, ON | VFS Global | 11 | 62 |
| Vancouver, BC | VFS Global | 12 | 62 |
| Edmonton, AB | VFS Global | 8 | 31 |
| Montreal, QC | VFS Global | 4 | 27 |
| Halifax, NS | VFS Global | 3 | 7 |
| Calgary, AB | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Hamilton, ON | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Moncton, NB | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Quebec City, QC | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Regina, SK | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Saskatoon, SK | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Victoria, BC | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
| Winnipeg, MB | VFS Global | 2 | 6 |
"Routes" counts city × destination × visa category, not appointments.
The deepest centre is not Toronto but Ottawa, with 13 of the 14 destinations, because the consulates cluster around the capital; Montreal appears with four, so Quebec applicants whose country is not among them usually file in Ottawa. And eight centres carry exactly two destinations, France and the Netherlands — the only countries bookable in all 14 Canadian cities. For Denmark, Estonia or Hungary the realistic choice is Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver or Edmonton.
The 14 destinations tracked from Canada, in the order Canadian subscribers ask for them
- France
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- Lithuania
- Finland
- Croatia
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Austria
- Norway
- Estonia
- Hungary
- Iceland
France alone accounts for 89 of the 311 routes. Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Poland are not monitored from Canada today — those consulates book through channels we do not cover from here. Coverage moves as centres open and close; the current list for your city is in the app and on the full list of countries VisaBot covers.
Inside an AutoBooking run: the OTP, the centre's fee and the date you agreed to
When a date appears on your route the bot starts the booking with the details you gave at subscription and finishes it on the VFS Global site. The appointment is created in your name. VisaBot never holds a slot and never resells one.
What AutoBooking needs
- Applicant data up front. Names and passport details as the centre reads them, plus the date range you accept: 298 of the 311 Canadian routes take a date interval.
- The one-time code. VFS Global sends the OTP to VisaBot's system mailbox. Before you log into the VFS site yourself, tell support so they can read it to you — it dies within minutes.
How the fee works
- The centre's booking fee, in two stages. On VFS Global routes you pay a prepayment per applicant at subscription, with a surcharge for a date range, and the balance once a date is booked. Canada never touches the dearer TLScontact schedule, because no Canadian route runs on TLScontact. Amounts in Canadian dollars are in the app; the VisaBot FAQ shows the UK schedule in pounds.
- If the booked date does not suit you, you can decline to pay the balance, but the prepayment is not refundable: it has already gone to the centre as its booking fee, and the bot cannot move you to another date.
If no date appears
- If there are no dates at all, the subscription keeps watching for its full 30 days. You are not buying a place in a queue; visa centres do not sell one. Waitlist destinations work on both plans, and support can switch your destination or category.
And there is no pattern to when Canadian centres release dates. Nobody outside the centre knows in advance; VisaBot finds out in real time by watching.
a slot is never promised; the appointment is made at the official application centre; the visa decision is made solely by the relevant authorities.
When the booking system itself fights back: common errors on the VFS Global website and how to fix them.
Waiting times from Canada: what the numbers do and do not support
We are not publishing a median wait for Canada. Our rule is a hundred completed bookings on a market before an average goes on a public page, and Canada is below it: appointments have been caught here since mid-2025, but not in a volume that would make a number mean anything.
What we can name is what moves the wait
The destination.
France behaves nothing like Iceland or Norway, which hold four to twelve routes in the whole country.
The city.
A two-destination centre in Saskatchewan sees a fraction of the dates Ottawa does.
The category.
A tourist file and a working-holiday file do not queue for the same calendar.
The season.
Summer, December and the spring run-up to the academic year are when Canadian centres are tightest.
The company's FAQ puts a first notification at one to five days and a booking on popular visa types at one to two weeks — context, not a commitment for your route. Everything here is time to the appointment, not time to the visa.
After the appointment a second clock starts, and it is not ours
- A short-stay application
- is normally decided within about 15 calendar days, stretching to 45 when an application needs closer examination
- The lodging window
- you can generally lodge up to six months before travel
- French long-stay visas
- run on their own timetable
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Filing from Canada: who applies, at which centre, under which category
The short version — the part that decides whether a subscription is worth buying. Depth lives in the blog and in the FAQ.
QuestionThe answer for Canada
- Who applies here
- Anyone living in Canada whose passport requires a Schengen visa: permanent residents, work and study permit holders, visitors legally in the country. Canadian passport holders need no short-stay visa, but do need a national long-stay visa for study, residence or the working-holiday scheme.
- Which consulate
- The consulate of your main destination, where you spend the most nights. Equal nights: the country you enter first.
- Where you attend
- A VFS Global centre in one of the 14 cities above. Ottawa covers 13 of the 14 destinations; eight smaller centres cover France and the Netherlands only.
- Categories we monitor
- Short-stay Schengen: tourism, business, first-time or family visitor, airport transit, conference, sports. Long-stay French national visas: students, residence permit, visa renewal, Passport Talent, family of an EU national, and the Franco-Canadian working-holiday and young-professional agreement. Plus visas for the French Caribbean and the overseas departments (DOM-TOM), which sit outside Schengen.
- What booking asks for
- Applicant details exactly as in the passport, plus your date window. No Canadian route we monitor flags a selfie or liveness check at booking.
- Government fee
- About €90 for an adult short-stay Schengen visa, €45 for a child aged 6–12, free under 6, charged in Canadian dollars at the consulate's rate, plus the centre's service fee. Long-stay French visas are priced separately.
- Who decides
- The consulate. VisaBot does not issue visas and does not influence decisions.
Before you enter a card: who we are, and the three things we never do
VisaBot is operated by TREVOR PHILIPS LTD. Every line below is checkable on the UK public register, which is the point of printing it.
- Legal entity
- TREVOR PHILIPS LTD
- Registered
- England and Wales, 7 July 2023
- Company number
- 14986978
- VAT number
- GB465562175
- Registered office
- 20 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU
The people behind the product are named.
Roles (four with LinkedIn profiles) are on the about page.
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Three things VisaBot never does
- We do not issue visas and do not influence decisions — no legitimate service can.
- We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of VFS Global, TLScontact, BLS International, any embassy, consulate or government body.
- We do not resell or hold appointments: every booking is made in your name, through the official centre.
Refund terms are set out in the Refund Policy.
Appointments from Canada: eight questions, answered straight
Do Canadian citizens need a Schengen visa?
Not for a short trip: a Canadian passport allows up to 90 days in any 180 in the Schengen area, and the EU authorisation for visa-free nationals is an online form, not a visa. A long stay is different — a French student visa, a residence visa or the Franco-Canadian working-holiday permit are booked at the same VFS Global centres, and VisaBot monitors those categories too.
I am a permanent resident in Canada on an Indian or Filipino passport. Can I use VisaBot?
Yes, and that is the largest group this page is written for. VisaBot monitors appointments by route, not by nationality: what matters is that you apply at a VFS Global centre in Canada. Your passport decides which consulate rules apply, and that part stays with you.
Which Canadian cities have Schengen visa centres that VisaBot monitors?
Fourteen: Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Montreal, Halifax, Calgary, Hamilton, Moncton, Quebec City, Regina, Saskatoon, Victoria and Winnipeg, covering 311 monitored routes. Ottawa is the deepest with 13 of the 14 destinations; eight smaller centres handle France and the Netherlands only.
Why can't I book Germany, Italy or Spain from your Canadian list?
They are not among the 14 destinations VisaBot monitors in Canada: France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Finland, Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, Austria, Norway, Estonia, Hungary and Iceland. Other consulates book through channels we do not cover here; the live list for your city is in the app and at visabot.eu/countries.
Is BLS International the Schengen visa centre in Canada?
No. Every Schengen route VisaBot monitors in Canada runs through VFS Global. BLS International does have Canadian offices, but for Indian consular services — passports, OCI cards, police certificates — which is why a search for a visa centre in Toronto or Ottawa often lands there. Check which operator your destination consulate names before creating an account anywhere.
How long does VisaBot take to catch an appointment in Canada?
We do not publish a median for Canada: the number of appointments booked here is below the hundred-booking threshold we set before putting an average on a public page. The wait depends on the destination, the city, the category and the season. Whatever the wait, it is time to the appointment, not to the visa.
Does one subscription cover my whole family?
One Notifications subscription covers every traveller on the same application, which is why families start there. AutoBooking is priced per applicant, and the bot has to find a date with room for all of them at once. Subscriptions run 30 days and never renew automatically.
My nearest centre only handles France and the Netherlands. What now?
That is the case in Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Moncton, Quebec City, Regina, Saskatoon and Victoria: two destinations each. If your country is not one of them, subscribe for a centre you can reach — Ottawa covers 13 destinations, Vancouver 12, Toronto 11, Edmonton 8 — and set a date window wide enough to make the trip worth taking.
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