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Your existing study permit survives a de-designation — you can finish the programme you are enrolled in. What ends is the future: no extension, no new programme there, and a deferred start becomes a problem instead of a plan.
Read the guide →Since 8 November 2024 you can no longer change schools on the same study permit. You apply for a new one, and since 22 January 2025 you need a new attestation letter before you submit. The sequence, and what happens if you start classes first.
Read the guide →The refusal letter arrives and the clock you are actually on depends on one thing most students cannot answer: were you on maintained status, or did your own permit still have time left? The answer changes every option below.
Read the guide →Nurse aides and patient service associates — NOC 33102 — are on the Express Entry healthcare category list. A six-month PSW certificate is a genuine way into that work. It is also not a permit, not a PGWP, and not twelve months of experience. Here is the honest sequence.
Read the guide →You cannot renew a PGWP. You can move to a study permit from inside Canada, and a Canadian master's is worth +30 CRS — but the points are the smaller half of the argument. What decides whether this is a plan or an expensive delay.
Read the guide →On 1 January 2026 master's and doctoral students at public institutions stopped needing a PAL. Most other post-secondary applicants still do, and without one the application is returned rather than refused. Here is the current list, and how you actually get one.
Read the guide →Section 188 of the regulations says a course of six months or less needs no study permit. It is the least-known rule in Canadian study immigration, it is the reason a visitor can study legally, and it is also the rule people most often stretch past breaking. Here is exactly what it covers.
Read the guide →Around 700 graduates in Alberta were refused a post-graduation work permit over one word on their programme: non-credit. The college was designated. The programme did not qualify. Those are two different things, and the difference is checkable.
Read the guide →Two applications share a name and almost nothing else. Where you are standing when you press submit decides which regulation governs you, what you have to prove, what it costs, and how long you wait. Here is the test, and the five things that change.
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