I have held my student visa since February 2020 and it is valid till November 2021 and I am enrolled at conestoga college with 16 months program (Mobile Solutions Development). I haven't started my studies yet and had constantly deferred my intake because I was afraid I might get stuck in my home country and would waste my money on online classes.
However, I made up my mind to start my studies in May 2021 and would have travelled in June. But my college deferred me again with 40 another students to September because they reached full capacity. This creates a lot of problem for me because college doesn't even reply to emails of anyone who got deferred and they hold the power to do this again in September if they feel like it and if they did then my plans to go to Canada will be shattered for good because of my visa deadline.
I have emailed my college several times and I don't get any response from them and my idp counsellor never picks up my calls and when I do get a hold of him, he isn't helpful at all and just tells me to mail the college.
Being afraid, I applied to other colleges for September and got an offer letter of Seneca college of two 1 year programs (Bundled). Now, I have a few queries about changing my college.
1. Can I change my college at this point of time? Will I be able to get an extension on my visa and study permit? My idp agent has been really persuasive for me to not change college and even told me that he would not help me at all if I decided to do so. He told me that border officers will not let me enter the country if I did change my college.
2. What kind of problems will I face if I do go through with changing college?
3. My ocas portal credentials are with idp, does changing DLI requires the access to portal? How can I circumvent this issue.
4. How does the fees get transferred? Do I have to file for a refund on Conestoga and wait for the refund and then pay Seneca college again? Or does the fees gets automatically transferred when changing DLI.
5. I have a deadline to accept the offer letter till June 3rd for Seneca, will I get time to pay the fees considering if I have to file for a refund with conestoga?
I would really appreciate if someone could help me out and lay out the steps I have to take to do this. My apologies if I asked any dumb questions and thanks in advance.
Edit:-
6. Forgot to ask another point, will any of this impact my pgwp?
However, I made up my mind to start my studies in May 2021 and would have travelled in June. But my college deferred me again with 40 another students to September because they reached full capacity. This creates a lot of problem for me because college doesn't even reply to emails of anyone who got deferred and they hold the power to do this again in September if they feel like it and if they did then my plans to go to Canada will be shattered for good because of my visa deadline.
I have emailed my college several times and I don't get any response from them and my idp counsellor never picks up my calls and when I do get a hold of him, he isn't helpful at all and just tells me to mail the college.
Being afraid, I applied to other colleges for September and got an offer letter of Seneca college of two 1 year programs (Bundled). Now, I have a few queries about changing my college.
1. Can I change my college at this point of time? Will I be able to get an extension on my visa and study permit? My idp agent has been really persuasive for me to not change college and even told me that he would not help me at all if I decided to do so. He told me that border officers will not let me enter the country if I did change my college.
2. What kind of problems will I face if I do go through with changing college?
3. My ocas portal credentials are with idp, does changing DLI requires the access to portal? How can I circumvent this issue.
4. How does the fees get transferred? Do I have to file for a refund on Conestoga and wait for the refund and then pay Seneca college again? Or does the fees gets automatically transferred when changing DLI.
5. I have a deadline to accept the offer letter till June 3rd for Seneca, will I get time to pay the fees considering if I have to file for a refund with conestoga?
I would really appreciate if someone could help me out and lay out the steps I have to take to do this. My apologies if I asked any dumb questions and thanks in advance.
Edit:-
6. Forgot to ask another point, will any of this impact my pgwp?
