Educate to Migrate
By studying the right course it could greatly increase your prospects of receiving a Post Graduate Work Permit. Many students use the Post Graduate Work Permit to build up the work experience requirement to apply for Permanent Work Visas to Canada. Pathway to Canada will ensure that its students study in a course that should allow you to be eligible for the Post Graduate Work Permit.
Post Graduate Work Permit
Criteria for Eligibility
The foreign student must at least be eighteen (18) years of age;
The foreign student should have studied full-time in Canada for a period of no less than eight (8) months;
The program of study must have been completed at a Designated Learning Institution (DLI) for an approved degree/certificate/diploma program;
The PGWP must be applied by the foreign student within one hundred and eighty (180) days from the completion of the study program;
If the foreign student is within Canada, their stay in Canada must be under a valid visa program. If their status has expired, then they need to apply for a visitor visa first before applying for a PGWP. If a foreign student applies for a PGWP prior to the expiry of their study visa, they are eligible to work immediately even if their application for a PGWP is still being processed.
PGWP applications may be filed from overseas.
Need to Know Facts
A PGWP’s duration can be between eight (8) months and three (3) years;
The length of the visa holder’s study will be the maximum period of validity for a granted PGWP;
So long as 50% of the period of study on the granted study visa is done with in-person classroom participation, the visa holder’s PGWP would have a duration equal to the total period granted by the study visa;
If the program of study undertaken is part-time only or was done through accelerated studies program, the duration of the PGWP would be the period granted under the study visa as if the program of study was undertaken full time.
Levels of Study and Programs
Any public post-secondary educational institution, such as a college, trade/technical school or university or CEGEP in Quebec;
Any private post-secondary school that operates under the same rules as public schools. This program applies only to specific institutions in Quebec;
Private secondary or post-secondary school (in Quebec) which offers programs with at least 900 hours or longer, leading to a diplome d’etudes professionalles (DEP) or an attestation de specialisation professionnelle (ASP); or
Canadian private schools that can grant program degrees under provincial law for students enrolled in study programs towards the completion of a degree under authority of the Provincial Government.
Other Information on PGWP
The processing time from filing of an application to resolution of a PGWP is between eighty (80) and one hundred eighty (180) days. During the said period of processing, the applicant would be allowed to work in Canada provided that the PGWP application was filed before expiry of the study visa;
A PGWP can only be availed of once by the individual. Thus, considerations such as a application for another degree program, or a longer period program can affect the length of the granted PGWP term, whose maximum length would be at three (3) years.
When the study visa holder leaves Canada after completion of their program of study, they are still eligible to file for a PGWP from overseas. When filed overseas, there may be a need for additional documentation to be submitted in order to qualify for the said program, as deemed necessary by the Canadian immigration officials in the country where PGWP application was filed.
The application for a PGWP may be filed up to one hundred eighty (180) days after completion of all the requirements of the visa granted program of study;
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