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Nope. You may not be eligible for EI due to availability. Since you're a student, you're limited to 24 hours/week, and in order to be eligible, you had to be available for full time employment. In other words, you are involuntarily paying into a federal insurance program that you're less likely...

Yes.

Unfortunately not. This will likely be only seen as another desperate attempt for an easy entry into Canada. You will need to stand your ground about the DLI and course you originally applied for a study permit with.

Not necessarily. Also, it depends on the document you are replacing. Oftentimes, they just tell you that they confirm the reception of your document and that is it. What they allow you to see is just a brief glimpse of what happens internally.

Does your brother's DLI have an approved COVID-readiness plan?

I think that is perfectly fine as long as you will still be eligible for the visa when you re-apply. I would inform the IRCC via a web forum before embarking on that though.

My best guess would be that the "discretionary group" is the "first phase" decision maker in approving/disapproving a traveler's entry where they do some basic checking, like whether you have a valid visa or not, etc.. and it's either affiliated with the CBSA or the IRCC. The second phase is at...

I think this would be applicable only within Pakistan and what really matters to the border officers are the documents that you originally applied with. For example, I had a one-month validity document which was already "expired" by the time my application started to be processed and things were...

Don't think so. Just take all the documents that you applied with and keep hard copies of each one.

This is why you always hear that you have to convince a visa officer to accept your visa application, and not only show them that you are eligible.

According to the IRCC, if the start date of your new program/deferred enrolment is 180 days far from the one you used in your study permit application, then you should contact them by a web form. Otherwise, it doesn't matter.

They don't care about a program change - take it from me. Just make sure to have both your old & new acceptance letters in case the CBSA officer asks to see them. Also make sure to make hard copies of all your documents just to be safe.

I called them to confirm this as well and a CBSA representative told me that 28 days is the maximum time period before the start of your studies and if your travel date exceeds it, then you should contact the IRCC for permission and this still wouldn't even guarantee that the CBSA officer will...

I think using the web-form within the page can speed things up. An email can take a while.

When did you contact them?