Hello, everyone. I was told today by the Consulate General of Canada in Brazil that my application is being processed at CPC Edmonton because I applied under the SDS (their words exactly). Are all your applications being processed there, too?
During the past week I've seen some August and early-September SDS applicants from my country receiving their decisions from Edmonton. Sadly, they were all refusals (a total of 5), which is very concerning. What all of them had in common was that the officer was not satisfied they'd leave Canada after their studies based on purpose of visit.
Have you guys been seeing this justification a lot, too? Apparently, most of these applications I mentioned would not have been refused if they were being processed in Brazil, so it must have something to do with how Edmonton's office analyzes study permit applications. This is what local immigration consultants are saying. They are still trying to figure this out, since it's only been 3 months since Brazil was included in the list of SDS-designated countries and started having online applications analyzed in Canada.