Anonymous participant it’s a tourist visa. It’s meant to make it easier for people who stay long term, have a reason to be here and have the funds to support themselves. It would appear it’s like an METV with different stipulations. It does seem too good to be true but there is a large group that needs a visa like this who don’t fit in elsewhere
If you can plan in advance that far yes, when the consulate was in Toronto the processing time was 24 hours so I had assumed 3-4 weeks was enough time to process. I was wrong, DTV in record time though.