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Yes. You can stay in Canada as a temporary resident until we make a decision on your new permit application. You must make sure you applied for a new permit before your original permit expired. If you applied to extend your study permit, you can stay in Canada and continue studying under the conditions of your original study permit if you. If ...
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The expiry date on your study permit tells you when you have to stop studying and leave Canada. You can find the expiry date under additional information on your study permit. This date is usually the length of your study program, plus 90 days. The extra 90 days gives you time to prepare to leave Canada or to extend your stay in Canada.
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- Your study permit conditions
- How to prove that you meet your conditions
- People who are exempt from study permit conditions
•Your study permit conditions
•If your school loses its DLI status
•What counts as an authorized leave from your studies?
•How to prove that you meet your conditions
•What happens if you don’t meet your study permit conditions
•People who are exempt from study permit conditions
Changes to off-campus work hours
You may be eligible to work more than 20 hours per week off campus under a temporary public policy. Find out if you meet the requirements. As a study permit holder, you need to meet a number of conditions. If you don’t meet these conditions, you may lose your student status and study permit. You may also have to leave Canada. As a study permit holder, you must: be enrolled at a designated learning institution (DLI), unless you’re exempt show you’re actively pursuing your studies, unless you’re exempt, by being enrolled full-time or part-time during each academic semester (excluding regularly scheduled breaks) making progress towards completing your program’s courses, and not taking authorized leaves longer than 150 days from your study program tell us any time you change post-secondary schools end your studies if you no longer meet the requirements of being a student, and leave Canada when your permit expires
Other study permit conditions you may need to follow
You may have other conditions listed on your study permit. You must follow these conditions, which could include the level of studies if you’re allowed to work on or off campus as a student in Canada if you need to report for medical procedures if you’re allowed to travel within Canada, and the date you must stop studying.
If your school loses its DLI status
If your school loses its DLI status after you get your study permit, you can keep studying at that school until your permit expires. If you want to extend your study permit, you’ll need to enrol at a school with DLI status. If you’ve deferred your enrolment If you’ve deferred your enrolment and the DLI that issued your letter of acceptance is de-designated before you start studying, you cannot start studying at that school. If you’re in Canada with a valid study permit, you’ll need to apply to and be accepted at a new DLI update the information about your learning institution in MyAccount If your study permit has been approved but not issued yet we’ll send you a request to provide a new letter of acceptance from a new DLI you’ll need to update the information about your learning institution in MyAccount (if your study permit is approved)
We might ask you to prove you’re meeting your conditions:
•as part of a random check
•if we have reason to believe you’re not meeting them
We might ask you for:
•official documents from your school confirming:
•your enrolment status
If you meet all of your study permit conditions, you get to keep your study permit and status as a student. However, some study permit holders are exempt from certain conditions.
You don’t need to prove that you’re enrolled at a DLI or that you’re actively pursuing your studies if:
•you or a family member (spouse or dependent child) has made a refugee claim in Canada that hasn’t yet been decided on
•you have refugee status in Canada
•you or a family member (spouse or dependent child) are a Convention refugee or a humanitarian-protected person
•you’re an accredited representative of another country, the United Nations, or any international organization of which Canada is a member, or you’re the staff or family member (spouse or dependent child) of this person
A study permit is usually valid for the length of your study program, plus an extra 90 days. The 90 days let you either. prepare to leave Canada or. apply to extend your stay. The amount of time you can stay in Canada after you’ve completed your studies depends on whether. you’re taking prerequisite courses.
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you return to Canada before your study permit expires. When you return to Canada. If your study permit is still valid, or we extended your permit while you were away, we may let you enter as a student. If we’re still processing your study permit extension, we may let you enter as a visitor. In this case, you can’t study until you get your ...
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Your restoration application must be submitted within 90 days after your study permit expired or became invalid. You can remain in Canada while you await processing of your restoration application, but you are not allowed to study until the application is approved. You are not allowed to work under your study permit until your status has been ...