An international student in Canada renewed a soon-expiring passport and asked whether they could travel on the new passport while showing the student visa in the old one. Members confirmed the standard practice:
- Yes — carry both passports together. The visa in the old (cancelled) passport remains valid until its own expiry; you present the old passport containing the visa along with the new passport at travel. The poster's visa was valid to year-end with April travel planned — members saw no problem.
- Corroboration from IRCC itself. One member noted they'd seen IRCC reply to exactly this question on social media confirming the same practice, and suggested a quick check with an IRCC consultant if the traveller wanted double surety.
- The underlying principle a member articulated: visas are usually not issued beyond a passport's validity — but where a visa does outlast the old passport's validity, it remains valid, which is why the two-passport combination works.