Requirements and precautions for applying for a work visa for studying in Canada

After graduation, international students in Canada need to change their study visas to work visas if they want to stay and work locally. Next, let's take a look at the application requirements and precautions for a Canadian graduation work visa.

Graduation work symbol

The graduation work visa is a proof that international students studying in Canadian universities can work legally after graduation. It is indispensable for any graduate who wants to start working legally after graduation. This is an open work permit. After getting this work permit, international students can work for any employer without getting a job opportunity in advance.

You can apply for a graduation work visa first, and you don't need to find a job before applying. It is to ensure that applicants can work legally in Canada as a whole, not only in the province where they graduated.

Each international student can only apply for a graduation work visa once, and the required application materials are relatively simple, and international students can even wait at the border.

● International students must be full-time students, that is, they must study at a university or college in Canada for at least 8 months.

● You must graduate from a school recognized by Immigration Canada to apply for a graduation work visa.

● You must hold a valid study permit at the time of application.

● You must obtain a degree, professional qualification or graduation letter of your major or project.

● Official certificates issued by educational institutions must be submitted, which can reflect the applicant's academic situation and professional achievements.

● You must submit a "work visa" application within 90 days after receiving the school graduation certificate (academic report card or school graduation letter).

Matters needing attention

The application time is very important.

The application for graduation work visa has its own time and validity period, that is, the application is entered within 90 days after completing all courses in the university. Please remember, today is not the day of your graduation ceremony, but after your final semester results come out and meet the graduation requirements, you can start applying. It usually takes 45 days to 2 months to get the application.

So don't delay, wait until the results come down before preparing the application materials. If you accidentally miss the application time, then I'm sorry, there is nothing you can do. If you don't apply within 90 days, you will be deemed to have given up your application automatically. If you still want to apply, you must go to another public school to complete the course and apply for a work permit again.

Remember, the graduation work visa is once in a lifetime.

Because of the particularity of graduation work visa, that is, whether you find a job or not. As long as you meet the immigration work permit rules, you can get a three-year work permit. But remember, this graduation work permit is the only chance in your life.

Therefore, this requires you to make your own life plan before the end of your undergraduate course, whether to continue your studies or apply for a work visa. If you apply for a work visa after graduating from undergraduate course and then study for an mba, do you think you still have a work visa after studying for an mba? That's wrong, because you have already applied once! Therefore, whether to apply or not is a problem!

3. The validity period of the work sign

As for how many years you can apply for a work permit, it depends on the courses that the applicant has actually completed. At present, Canada's policy stipulates that if an applicant has completed at least two years of courses (full-time) in Canada, he can apply for a three-year work visa or the applicant's courses exceed eight months.

But it has not reached 2 years, then the applicant can obtain a valid work visa equivalent to the course (setting) time. For example, 16 months or 18 months of MBA courses. Therefore, if your ultimate goal is to immigrate, then you must see clearly which schools can get a three-year graduation work visa.

Size mark

1, Canada Small Sign-Visa

The small sign is a visa affixed to a student's passport. According to Nanjing Jiacheng study visa consultant, the validity period of small visa varies from one year to four years according to the specific situation. As long as the big visa has not expired, students do not have to leave the country, even if the small visa period is not renewed. It is not uncommon for us to apply for a Canadian student visa every year and get a four-year visa. In this case, if students return to China in their junior year, as long as the study permit has not expired, they do not need to renew their visas and can return to Canada with their current passports. This is very different from the American F- 1 student visa, which deserves our attention.

2. Canada visa-study permit

A visa, or study permit, is a document issued by the customs when a student first enters Canada. Because it is in the form of a page, some people call it big paper. The purpose of a visa is to prove a student's legal student status in Canada. From this perspective, it is somewhat similar to the I-20 of American students. However, the big sign-in has a certain validity period. If the big visa period is not renewed, and the situation is serious (in general, the extension shall not exceed three months before the expiration), it will be regarded as illegal detention by the immigration bureau, and it is very likely that the visa will be refused.