Immigration consequences of impaired driving conviction Impaired driving and immigration A visitor to Canada faces possible deportation upon conviction for impaired driving, drive over 80 mgs., or refuse breath sample. A person who has committed a comparable offence abroad could be denied entry to Canada.
Visitor includes anyone lawfully in Canada as a tourist, or on a work or student visa.
It also includes a person who has approval in principle for landing on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. A person seeking to come to Canada as a landed immigrant or as a visitor is likely inadmissible if he or she has been found guilty abroad of a drinking and driving offence. Alternatively, you might be admissible to Canada if you received a pardon expunging your conviction. Once five years have passed from the completion of any sentence imposed for the offence, including any driving suspension, a person with a drinking and driving conviction may overcome inadmissibility upon receiving approval of rehabilitation from an authorized immigration official. A person in Canada as a visitor who is convicted of a drinking and driving offence may not be able to renew his or her visitor status.