Over the summer, you may have read in web media information about high rejection rate for study permits in 2019. However, except for some small changes in April, there were almost no changes in study permit regulations during 2019.
Some may guess that higher rejections are from international political and trade relationship. Others might guess administration and employee problems caused when the in-Canada study permit office moved 100 km. from Vegreville to Edmonton.
In April 2019, officials changed a detail concerning how prerequisite courses should be noted in a school’s Letter of Offer; some schools were slow to adapt and this may have increased the number of rejections.
Whatever the motivation, it seems that immigration officials are giving more attention to all the fine details in a study permit application and convincing an officer that you meet study permit criteria needs ever more proof and explanation.
Bond Immigration Services worked with schools on behalf of our clients to make sure the Letter of Offer considered these new requirements; our licensed immigration consultants personally working with each client to best present a client’s personal information, study plan and purpose of the study. Our success rate was very high.