PAL for study permit extension 2025

[andersonyan2001]

Hello everyone,

I am going to finish my master's studies and start my PhD program this fall. As IRCC frequently updates its terms on PAL. I am curious about one of its exemption conditions:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit/get-documents/provincial-attestation-letter.html#exemptions

You’ve entered Canada and one of the following situations applies to you:

• You’re applying for a study permit extension at the same DLI and level of study as your current study permit.

My PhD program university is the same as my master's. Are PhD and Master considered both post-secondary studies so they are of the "same level of study", or they are deemed different so I need a PAL for the extension?

Thank you!

 

[canuck78]

Hello everyone,

I am going to finish my master's studies and start my PhD program this fall. As IRCC frequently updates its terms on PAL. I am curious about one of its exemption conditions:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit/get-documents/provincial-attestation-letter.html#exemptions

You’ve entered Canada and one of the following situations applies to you:

• You’re applying for a study permit extension at the same DLI and level of study as your current study permit.

My PhD program university is the same as my master's. Are PhD and Master considered both post-secondary studies so they are of the "same level of study", or they are deemed different so I need a PAL for the extension?

Thank you!

Don’t think you need PAL but you can send a webform to confirm. Canada is not worried about PhD students