YOUR TOP 5 FRUSTRATIONS DURING YOUR STUDENT VISA APPLICATION JOURNEY AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT?

[FastCurate]

Hello everyone

I was once in your shoes and struggling to find answers on how to successfully get a student visa. Luckily, I got an approved visa after three tries. I am wondering if we can all share the top 5 challenges that we all faced during our student visa applications and how you think we can improve this?

I'll start with mine:

1. No transparency - I first applied through a visa agency from my home country. I believed I provided all the documents needed (even more than what's needed) but I still got REFUSED. I applied for CAIPS notes and the result said, I had so many lacking documents. It turned out the visa services agency did not submit all my documents.
2. Cost - It cost me over $2000 dollars to pay the agency and still got REFUSED twice.
3. Time - It took me 2 years to gather the right information and read through every single related situation in this forum before I applied (on my own) and got an APPROVED visa. If only I had a place where I could gather all the case-specific information, the heartbreak and sleepless nights wouldn't have happened.
4. Accuracy - I don't really know if the documents I submitted were even accurate or right. There's no basis.
5. Uncertainty - expert advice is so expensive. There's no way for me to tell if what I was doing was right or wrong. Basically just depending on blind faith.
   
   

 

[Random_guy]

Well if an expert advice is so expensive, I bet they are not expert at all. They took 2000$ to apply for a study permit and still end up uploading incomplete documents. Also, why it took you 2 years of study to apply for a study permit on your own?

 

[FastCurate]

Well if an expert advice is so expensive, I bet they are not expert at all. They took 2000$ to apply for a study permit and still end up uploading incomplete documents. Also, why it took you 2 years of study to apply for a study permit on your own?

Perhaps, they did it on purpose so I have to pay another fee. My documents were complete and CAIPS Notes indicated that I missed submitting those documents when the agency already had them at hand. Yes, a little almost two years. I applied on my own the second time and got another refusal. Then, I took a rest and got CAIPS notes from there I started gathering info from this forum and applied the third time. Got approved in 12 days.

 

[Random_guy]

Perhaps, they did it on purpose so I have to pay another fee. My documents were complete and CAIPS Notes indicated that I missed submitting those documents when the agency already had them at hand. Yes, a little almost two years. I applied on my own the second time and got another refusal. Then, I took a rest and got CAIPS notes from there I started gathering info from this forum and applied the third time. Got approved in 12 days.

I tried using help from agents for college admission and that was a total disappointment. Because of that, I applied for a study permit on my own and got approved recently. Doing this stuff ourselves is scary but the experience is worth it. Now, I'm fairly confident in dealing with document-related work.

 

[FastCurate]

I tried using help from agents for college admission and that was a total disappointment. Because of that, I applied for a study permit on my own and got approved recently. Doing this stuff ourselves is scary but the experience is worth it. Now, I'm fairly confident in dealing with document-related work.

What if there's a solution out there that can help you automate your visa application and identify missing documents? That way there's no need to go hunt for that information online. Wouldn't that be great?

 

[Random_guy]

What if there's a solution out there that can help you automate your visa application and identify missing documents? That way there's no need to go hunt for that information online. Wouldn't that be great?

Not really, as profiles differ from each other tremendously; some might need few documents, whereas others may need more to support their profile. Usually, in a study permit application, there are few documents, like IELTS and Academic transcripts, which are required for all applicants. Then, there are documents like job salary slips and all to justify one's gap between the studies. Apart from this, if visa officer required any other document, they will contact you through the email which you provided while applying. Not only that, if you are missing some documents, they will contact you in that case too. So, when the last time when you got refused, they must have contacted your agent (since you decided to apply through them which is not advised unless you know they are trustworthy) for missing documents before rejecting you, but it seems your expensive agents don't seem to care. Also, there are services such as web-form through which IRCC agents will guide you through your process, so going for a hunt for information is not really needed. Additionally, the process could not be automated, as human judgment is required to check whether a person is eligible to enter Canada or not.

 

[FastCurate]

Not really, as profiles differ from each other tremendously; some might need few documents, whereas others may need more to support their profile. Usually, in a study permit application, there are few documents, like IELTS and Academic transcripts, which are required for all applicants. Then, there are documents like job salary slips and all to justify one's gap between the studies. Apart from this, if visa officer required any other document, they will contact you through the email which you provided while applying. Not only that, if you are missing some documents, they will contact you in that case too. So, when the last time when you got refused, they must have contacted your agent (since you decided to apply through them which is not advised unless you know they are trustworthy) for missing documents before rejecting you, but it seems your expensive agents don't seem to care. Also, there are services such as web-form through which IRCC agents will guide you through your process, so going for a hunt for information is not really needed. Additionally, the process could not be automated, as human judgment is required to check whether a person is eligible to enter Canada or not.

Thank you! This is very well said and insightful. Yeah, that's the sad fact about my previous applications. I still resent the agency though even though it's like 6 years already passed.