Hi can you help me please i am in the same Situation and i want to apply for canada study visa i overstayed my visa 2 years in uk Because of appeal processes and all that. Can you please tell me which visa your friend applied for. I was doing study here in Uk for 5 years i did my Bachelor's degree and Master's degree here
Your situation is completely different than the situation of the people in this discussion. They were all applying for permanent residency through spousal sponsorship (they were being sponsored by their Canadian spouses). When you apply for PR, overstays are generally forgiven.
You are applying for a study permit which is a temporary visa. Overstays are a big problem for study permits and generally make it very difficult or impossible to be approved. If you want to come to study in Canada, you will first of all need to demonstrate you are a genuine student. This means that you should be planning to study here at the PhD level. You will also need to show extremely strong ties to your home country to demonstrate that you have no plans on remaining in Canada long term. Lastly, you will need to be 100% honest about your overstay in your application. If you aren't, you can expect the visa to be refused and be banned from Canada for 5 years for misrepresentation.
If you are still in the UK illegally and haven't left - there's zero chance a visa to Canada will be approved and you shouldn't bother applying.
