<p>Things may have changed in the last two years, but it was
expected that you would not have received the Canadian study permit until you arrived at the border on the way to school in late August. After you get all the permits, and begin school, a student gives all the info to McGill so you can obtain the Quebec student id number. Even at peak time, it does not take too long at the border to get the study permit. The border guards are used to the process. It is a very pretty visa by the way.</p>
<p>Somewhere I read that you have until 10/15 to submit your CAQ and permit to ARR</p>
<p>Thanks for the information, it'll save a drive at $3 a gallon.</p>
<p>You can submit all your documents online, if you didn't read that in the packet. Just scan them and send them to the address in the pamphlet. So assuming you goto the New York Canadian Consolate and pick up your Study Permit, you could conceivably send your email that day (also assuming you have a means to scan your immigration paper work). </p>
<p>I personally will be doing the online method, as well as the early study permit pick up, as I plan to use my French citizenship to obtain the Quebec tuition rate. For more information, look at that packet they sent on the right hand side of page 3.</p>
<p>Dr Mambo:</p>
<p>For those of us who have been accepted but haven't yet received their packet in the mail, could you please say a little more about the online submissions?</p>
<p>Also, are you contradicting what glendalais and woody said? (about the pdf print-outs being the "online" submission method)?</p>
<p>This seems to mesh with what McGill Int'l services told me:
"Q: I'm a bit confused about the online application for the CAQ. While I've found a PDF that I can electronically enter my information (prior to printing it out), I haven't found any fully-electronic web application. Is this PDF what ISS means by the "online" application? A) The online version of the CAQ application is not yet available. The PDF version of the CAQ application can just be downloaded at this stage. "</p>
<p>So, to follow-up what I said above, does the packet you received now indication that the online version has become available? If so, what is the URL?</p>
<p>Thanks,
Mike</p>
<p>Ok, Mike, about the "online" application process. The name is misleading, you can NOT submit the APP online, it must be through the post. The product of all your troubles (THE CAQ, itself), however, can be scanned and sent via email to the Registrar dept at McGill. </p>
<p>I'm not contradicting glendalais or woody, trust them over me, theyre phenomenally informative.</p>
<p>once you get your CAQ, you should send in your forms for the study permit. you can pick it up at the border.
when you go to pick up your McGill ID on the first day, they will make a copy of both your documents. You DO NOT have to send it in ahead of time.
I am a current McGill student, I am positive of this.</p>
<p>When the study permit application is completed, do you send it directly to the border where you will be picking it up or to some other visa office? I ready things quickly, I guess, because I am not clear.</p>
<p>BOW: After you have the CAQ, you bring all your paperwork to the border when you are entering in to Canada to start McGill. You go into customs and give them the forms and they will insert a student visa in the students passport.
You do not mail the student permit application, you carry it to the border station on your way to start at McGill. Immigration knows what to do at the border.</p>
<p>Yes, Mcgilldad, I believe you are correct after reading it again. You take your application and all the required documents to the port of entry. Well, at least we have them ready to go, one more step completed. <a href="http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/apply-how.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/apply-how.html</a>
Thanks!</p>