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Online Study Permit Application from Outside Your Home Country

berkancam

Full Member
Aug 14, 2019
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Hello everyone,

I am preparing to apply online for a study permit next week that is for an 8 months business administration certificate program in a public university. I have all my documents ready and I was pretty positive about my case until I learnt that applying from outside your home country can cause a refusal.

I am a Turkish citizen (no criminal records, I am able to go and leave my home country without any issue, I was there last December and I have my retired parents and sisters living there.) and I am living with my Colombian citizen common-law partner in Colombia. We declared our common law partnership here in Colombia and thanks to that I was eligible to get a Colombian work permit for 1 year from October 2020 to October 2021. I am legally eligible to extend the duration of the work permit or reapply again in the future thanks to my partner. Since I have the Colombian work permit here I have been working in my partner's family business as an administrator (I explained my responsibilities in the letter of explanation) and my boss is actually my partner's father. We are in the process of building and establishing a brand of natural agricultural products and I have a work certificate from him that declares I am working here and I am expected to be back after I complete my studies to keep working on our project. Actually the reason why I am going to study is to improve my administrative skills in a country with high education quality and learn the basics of operating a business.

I also have a really strong travel history. I have been to Canada before several times (I still have a Canadian TRV, I have also been to England, Germany, US, Mexico etc and I didn't have any legal trouble in those countries. )

Could you please give me your thought about me applying from overseas for the study permit? Is it really a reason to get refusal even I will be applying online?

Thank you very much!
 

Rafaelhag43

Hero Member
May 6, 2021
364
121
If you're applying for a study permit, there won't be a section where you could upload your travel history. Although the VO might know your positive reputation of going in and out of Canada.

The main reason that applicants sometimes get refused is that living outside your home country temporarily shows that you have less ties to your home country. Meaning it is less likely you will leave Canada and go back to your home country. In order to tackle this, you will need to write a strong SoP/LoE explaining why you will leave Canada after your studies end. It is not a certain refusal as we have seen in this forum, but it does add a negative doubt to the VO.