SOP is not a required document for a study permit. You can get a study permit approved without a SOP.
Study permit was refused - second time
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SOP can be an effective story telling mechanism with all of your supporting documents as proof. Rather than having the VO read random documents you can use the SOP to guide them through your history by using each document to substantiate your claims. But yes, just writing a SOP without any proof will not do much for you.
I'm with you on this one. I heard many stories of international students who don't go to their classes and working an insane amount of hours per week (maybe 60?) and getting paid under the table (cash). These students get deported when found out. And now, the applicants are having a harder time in getting approved.
I can only speak for myself not others. This is prejudice type behavior. If I don't get pgwp no problem, this is not a big deal. I am not coming to roam the streets and waste my money and time while I leave the comfort of present place. Purpose is to get education, get some experience if possible, experience a different culture and explore the beauty of new place whenever I have time. Life is too short to waste.
Put yourself into the visa officer's shoes. If you see thousands and thousands of applications from the same country, with similar background, applying to degree mill colleges, for one year certificate course, barely enough money to support themselves in Canada and having the same sort of SOP writing, same style, same phrases and probably provided by their immigration agent or copied a template from internet blogs/YouTube.
Do you think that these people are genuinely interested in studying? Or just trying to gain entry into Canada? How would they tell the difference between genuine students and non genuine students?
Obviously the visa officer would expect that you would likely continue on with a pgwp and PR, but why would they assume you can complete your studies and comply with your temporary permit conditions?
My suggestion, ignore comments from this profile as you will not get any solution or help. There is always a chance of getting approved based on how you explain. Based on GCMS notes, see what remarks the VO have made and see how you can improve your overall profile.
You're just trying to exploit the kindness of Canada. This kind of behaviour won't be easily tolerated in Canada, sorry to say that.
If you're a genuine student your application will be processed quickly and you don't need to "prove" anything. If only a few bad applications that get refused.
Info/prospective provided is definitely negative and isn't helping anyone in my opinion but telling he/she is not genuine. I know very well not everyone is genuine in their study pursuit but no one can tell that for sure who is genuine or who is not based on their location.
This is just VO opinion of someone based on their understanding of given information and proofs and standard visa regulation plus yearly student quota I suppose.
Yes. The visa officer look at hard evidence. Your immigration information, your financials, your educational background. Not your story telling ability in your sop. Your sop is meaningless if you don't satisfy the basic condition. Anyone can write anything in an SOP, the visa officer don't base their decision on some story without any evidence.
There are no student quota set by IRCC.
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You are just trying to discourage to be student to apply for and pursue their studies. I don't believe every decision is to be taken as right and not free from being wrong.
No. I'm discouraging non genuine applicants, so that genuine applicants can get their student permit process faster and easier.
You know why it takes months from you from your country but if someone from say Australia or Germany applies for a study permit, he or she could get it in less than a week or 2. Because of so many fraud applications coming, it's makes it harder for the visa officer to process your application in a timely manner.