nafta visa, sending son to university...

[Cassakane]

My husband has a job offer in Ontario that would qualify him for a nafta visa. Our son is 17 and a senior in high school. The job wants my husband there on Jan 1 2018. We would like to take our son with us to Canada, but there is no way we would be able to pay international rates to send him to university. Is there any way that we would be able to pay local rates because we will be living in Canada?

Thanks for you help

 

[scylla]

No - unfortunately there isn't. Your son can attend public high school tuition free. However once he's studying at the post secondary level, he needs a study permit and will have to pay international student fees.

Only Canadian permanent residents and Canadian citizens are eligible for domestic tuition fees.

 

[Cassakane]

I also asked this question on Reddit and received the following link:

http://www.fees.utoronto.ca/page1013.aspx

Apparently, universities can decide on their own if they will allow dependents of people with work permits to study at domestic rates. So, if you had the same question that I did, I suggest you take a look at this link. It is for the University of Toronto. Based on this, the best thing to do would be to contact the university you are interested in attending and ask about their specific policy. However, I was also told that you won't have much luck if you want to attend university in Quebec, they are the most strict.

 

[canuck78]

You could always try but have never heard of that. Not in the university's interest to reduce fees if they don't have to. Quebec has their own fee structure. Students who have a Quebec birth certificate or who live in Quebec before they go to university pay a significantly lower tuition fee than those who are born/live in the other provinces and move to Quebec to attend post-secondary education. Quebec will need the international student fees even more so I highly doubt they would reduce international tuition.