From US to Canada. Need help!

[flightkb]

Hey everyone

I am an international students holding F1 visa in US now.

I already received my CAQ( i intended to study in Quebec) and submitted the application for study permit couple days ago.

The problem is that i quit my study in US last week and my visa is only valid for another 10 days or so as i am not a full time student anymore..
So if i eventually luckily got approved for study permit, will i be able to get a visa stamp? provided that my visa in US is already expires by then.

Is there anyway i can enter Canada as of now?

Thanks!

 

[maximin]

Are you aware that Canada and USA share their data of all non-immigrant visas?
So my advice is come back to your home country before your American visa gets expired. Otherwise your chances to get approved for studies in Canada are zero.

 

[flightkb]

Thanks

 

[flightkb]

Are you aware that Canada and USA share their data of all non-immigrant visas?
So my advice is come back to your home country before your American visa gets expired. Otherwise your chances to get approved for studies in Canada are zero.

Hey

Since i am at this point now.

If i mail out my passport within the effective date of my visa, would it be okey?

 

[flightkb]

please help

 

[maximin]

If you applied for SP online, then once you see in your account that your application has been approved you will receive the request for passport.
You can estimate the processing time using this table:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/temp/students.asp#west

Since you were a student in US (for last 6 or more months), they probably will not ask you to do medical examination which should speed up your application.

Anyway, I believe you should not stay in US without legal status. Too risky.

 

[flightkb]

Okey this is quite tricky actually.

I will have my study permit while holding valid status but the status will expire at some point during the 6 weeks processing time for passport mail-out and visa stamp.

I am not sure if they will give me the visa stamp if they found out my status is expired, provided i already have study permit.

 

[maximin]

The general procedure is the following:
After your application got approved, they will request your passport to stamp visa.
Then you fly to Canada and at the airport you show your passport and other required documents (LOA, CAQ and etc). If the officer is satisfied with docs and your answers, you get your study permit (a separate piece of paper).

Visa allows you to enter Canada, study permit allows you to study in Canada.

Do not let your status get expired. Extend it or wait for decision from home country.
Canada is VERY strict about not maintaining a legal status, even outside Canada.

 

[flightkb]

Ok noted.

So as long as i leave soon after my visa expires and maybe try to apply in my home country i should be fine.

That would be the right and safe thing to do but what i am trying here is to mail out the passport before my visa expires.

Sure enough my visa will expire during the processing time but i can probably explain a bit and since my passport is mailed out i can't leave US anyway.

 

[maximin]

The position of CIC is the following:
1. It is an applicant's responsibility to maintain legal status in the country where they apply for visa to Canada.
2. If an applicant violates the visa conditions in other country then nothing stops him/her to violate visa conditions in Canada.

There is no requirement to send passport applying for SP online, so it would be completely your initiative. But even if they would ask for passport, it is still applicant's responsibility to maintain legal status in the country where they apply for visa to Canada.

If you leave US in time you will show that you are reliable applicant who respect rules of other country.
I understand that you probably do not want to waste money for travelling back and forth, but this is the only way if you intend to have future in Canada.

 

[flightkb]

OK thanks for the clarification, i know that to do know.