Your SP should stapled to your PP at ALL time!!!mengoose said:I am about to send my passport to the CIC. I wonder if I need to send my study permit along with it. Thanks!
Thanks for replying. When I first got my SP, it was. But now I am having a renewed one. So should I staple it and send it along with my passport to CIC?Diplomatru said:Your SP should stapled to your PP at ALL time!!!
YES, by all means!mengoose said:Thanks for replying. When I first got my SP, it was. But now I am having a renewed one. So should I staple it and send it along with my passport to CIC?
You are welcome.mengoose said:OK. Thank you. I will.
mengoose said:Thanks for replying. When I first got my SP, it was. But now I am having a renewed one. So should I staple it and send it along with my passport to CIC?
I tend to disagree.pepe84 said:Passports are for visa counterfoils only. It is not legal to make holes in the visa pages of our passports.
Since it has no picture, you need a piece of ID to verify it. Thus, it is a good idea to keep'em stapled and that's what CIC did in regards of all my acquaintances who got SP.pepe84 said:I did not send my study permit with my passport and have never sent it when renewing my TRV of myself and my spouse. I have had no problem so far. When we renew our study permits they come separate and CIC has never asked me to staple it in my passport.
When I first entered Canada, the immigration officer told me not to lose my permit and if possible attach it to the passport but it is not mandatory at all.
Diplomatru said:I tend to disagree.
It's legal as per Canadian and US immigration practice.
Because it doesn't authorize re-entry, but it does explain why you are entering Canada. The CBSA guy stapled it next to my S-1 visa and made a stamp underneath. Same happened to all the international students I know.pepe84 said:Well, I can tell you I have never stapled any permit in my passport. In fact, study and work permits say at the bottom: IT DOES NOT AUTHORIZE RE ENTRY. so why keeping it in a passport that is to be used to enter and re enter a country?
Diplomatru said:Because it doesn't authorize re-entry, but it does explain why you are entering Canada. The CBSA guy stapled it next to my S-1 visa and made a stamp underneath. Same happened to all the international students I know.
The other reason would be that SP is not recognized without a photo ID, so why not holding them together?
I don't work for CBSA brother. I simply comply with what the authorities do and find it perfectly reasonable to have documents attached to each other the way they find it to their liking, so that they are not lost, etc. This whole discussion started with you saying that stapling immigration documents to PP is illegal which is completely at odds with what they do in Northern America.pepe84 said:Like I said, you must show your study permit together with your passport but nowhere in CIC website says you must staple it in your passport. I keep saying it is not mandatory at all to staple it in your passport. Sorry but I completely disagree with you.