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Archived: June 2, 2025 2:51:17 [requester]: Immigration Representatives / Représentants immigration (IRCC)
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Good day,
‘Thank you for contacting the Immigration Representatives Mailbox
Please note that this mailbox is intended for general guidance and does not provide responses to case-specific inquiries but
have provided the following information as guidance. If you have case specific questions about a file, you are encouraged
to submit the IRCC Web form.
Please see our response to your question:
Thave a question regarding the PAL exemptions for 2025. Per the study permit website, a PAL/TAL is not required if..
You've entered Canada and one of the following situations applies to you:
You're applying for a study permit extension at the same DLI and level of study as your current study permit.
I'm looking for clarification on "level of study". Per MIs in Canada [requester] 1. Volume 159, Number 3: GOVERNMENT
NOTICES
“level of study”
dis categorized as follows:
a. primary and secondary education,
b. post-secondary education (inchiding vocational and technical training, and undergraduate programs), and
c. graduate education or above. (niveau d'études)
Question:
Could you kindly confirm whether "graduate education” refers only to students in Masters of Doctorial programs? Or does it also
inchide students perusing graduate certificates or other graduate level studies?
Response:
‘Thank you for your email correspondence to Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada’s Immigration Representatives Maibox.
‘This information is being provided as general program guidance; we are unable to provide case-specific advice
Under current ministerial instructions, IRCC categorizes levels of study into three distinet groups:
1. Primary and secondary education,
2. Post-secondary education (including vocational and technical training, certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas, and
undergraduate programs)
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