The major delay was actually the CAQ. If CAQ was approved as normal, you would have the SP before 18th Mar.
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Plus the delay by the university who told my daughter not to worry, could have had her letter in October, it finally arrived from the university beginning Febuary 2020, she is on a gap year so her previous school reports submitted in October were all that was needed. Yes the CAQ was awful really, with no proof of the arival of paperwork, the post tracking says it's stil in transit from February 2020, only a phone call established it arrived. It's not fair on Quebec applications that have taken 13 more weeks than non Quebec appications for study permits and still no email this afternoon from London about stage 1 processing. It's really really unfair that many Quebec students would have have had their study permits approved before 18 March, were it not for the CAQs. The result is 15 students instead of 1000 are starting at Universite de Sherbrooke as they got their study permits approved before 18 March, none at all at Bishop's got their study permits approved before 18 March as the university took so long to process applications. Both universities are in person.
1.30am CET 20 August 2020. London IRCC. Received first stage notification. Email notification and also GCkey. Dated 18 August 2020.
This is obviously not sent from London due to time of morning but sent from outside London or sent with a deliberate time delay from London.
When will full approval arrive? My daughter's classes start in 20 days and they are IN PERSON ONLY for 2/5 of her classes.
This is obviously not sent from London due to time of morning but sent from outside London or sent with a deliberate time delay from London.
When will full approval arrive? My daughter's classes start in 20 days and they are IN PERSON ONLY for 2/5 of her classes.
Glad that you received the first stage approval at least. I wonder when that will work out for my friend.
It is still the same letter stating receiving this letter due to applicants "who have not yet been able to provide all the required documents or information needed to have their application fully assessed in time for the fall semester". However, the application is a complete one, I know the notes if I order them will show the application is a complete one and I'd expect the permit has a recommendation for approval dated around the 17th or 18th June 2020. It appears this 2 stage process was planned originally for incomplete applications but is in reality given to everyone.
It's good now to be a little closer to the goal of getting my daughter on that plane, but sad she still isn't there and she was supposed to leave today. Returning students were on that plane out of Paris today and they were taken all the way to Bishop's and are now in quarantine. I'm happy they made it all of them, plus they would have arrived in a group as they were asked to arrive today, but sad no new first year students have made it including my daughter. 20 days to go to classes and she has been told she can still turn up late and miss a few weeks of in person classes but she needs to be there latest really 15 September, classes start in person on 9 September.
I hope there will be a relaxation on 31st August of the 18th March approved study permit rule.
It's good now to be a little closer to the goal of getting my daughter on that plane, but sad she still isn't there and she was supposed to leave today. Returning students were on that plane out of Paris today and they were taken all the way to Bishop's and are now in quarantine. I'm happy they made it all of them, plus they would have arrived in a group as they were asked to arrive today, but sad no new first year students have made it including my daughter. 20 days to go to classes and she has been told she can still turn up late and miss a few weeks of in person classes but she needs to be there latest really 15 September, classes start in person on 9 September.
I hope there will be a relaxation on 31st August of the 18th March approved study permit rule.
We don't live in the UK but the fees are £9250 which is around 16,000 Canadian dollars, living expenses would be at least 14,000, so a total of around 30,000 Canadian dollars. Yep you can cover that by student loans. My daughter is French-English speaking and her choice university offers far more flexibility in choice of classes that you can get in the UK. She got a scholarship and will pay Canadian level not international fees, so 8,500 Canadian dollars or £5000. Her living expenses are also 10,000 Canadia dollars or £5,800, total 18,500 per year. Why pay 30,000 dollars equivalent in the UK when you can pay 18,500 dollars in Quebec? It's financial but it's also a cultural experience. She has no interest currently in PGWP, it's simply to experience something different. I'd saved her entire life for this, her dad took quite a part of the savings when he emptied the accounts 7 years ago, I saved it all back up again, so it does mean a bit more and does feel like a harder fall that she cannot commence the studies which took so much sweat to pay for and has more emotional ties to getting to this point. If you knew what Belgian undergraduate universities are like, plus her course is not offered there, you'd understand why she isn't going to study there.
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She will definitely going to enjoy her stay in Quebec. It'll be an experience for her for sure. I'm sorry that you are facing difficulty in these unprecedented times but eventually everything will work out.