🇨🇦 Canada student visa: how long the Study Permit → PGWP takes, what it costs, and whether it leads to permanent residence

Temporary — not a permanent-residence route on its own

Not published on the page we read

Read 2026-09-23. The study-permit eligibility page (https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit/eligibility.html) states enrolment at a designated learning institution. It does not state a separate prior-credential minimum, and it does not state a job-offer rule. A condition on the permit about whether you may work, and later post-graduation work permit rules, are not a job-offer rule for this permit.

Not published on the page we read

Read 2026-09-23. The study-permit eligibility page (https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit/eligibility.html) states enrolment at a designated learning institution. It does not state a separate prior-credential minimum, and it does not state a job-offer rule.

From CAD 22,895

Living expenses for 1 person for the first year if you apply on or after September 1, 2025, all provinces and territories except Quebec. Tuition and transportation are extra. Rises with family size (2: CAD 28,502; 3: CAD 35,040). Quebec uses amounts set by the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration, not this table.

CAD 150

Study permit (including extensions) CAD 150 per person. Restore student status is a different charge (CAD 396.25, which already includes a new study permit). Biometrics CAD 85 per person (family maximum CAD 170) are charged separately and are not included in 150.

No commitment to a processing time

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