UNIVERSITY GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
How to Get a Student Visa for Canada
The main steps for getting your Canadian student visa:
Step 1:
Decide on a university to apply to and get your acceptance letter.
If you’re unsure where you want to study in Canada, you will have to decide before you can start your student visa application process. After being accepted at a Canadian university, you’ll get an acceptance letter required for the visa application.
Step 2:
Check if you need to apply for a student visa in Canada here
Step 3:
Check if you are eligible to apply for a student visa here
Step 4:
Read the Guide to Applying for a Study Permit Outside Canada here
- The student permit expires 90 days after your studies are finished when you receive a notification of the program completion. You can still stay in Canada to travel and explore or apply for a work permit, which allows you to take a full time or part time job, or even be self-employed.
Useful tip: check out if your home country is on the list of biometrics requests for the student permit application.
Step 5:
Prepare all required documents for the student visa in Canada.
- You may also need:
Step 6:
You will also need to check what you will need to do after you applied here
Find more up-to-date information about the Canadian student visa on the official student visa page of the Canadian government.
