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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    Three ways to do that, 1. show admissions office with IRCC website that less than 6 months program doesn't require a study permit. 2. Find an online program to study English, and then take an IELTS test 3. find a local community English class offered to newcomers, the cost is cheap.
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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    Thank you! I applied inside Canada and didn't apply immediately when I landed in Canada, so the board member also asked me why I delay in my claim. Just have to be honest, and tell life circumstances.
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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    Good luck! Once you got your positive decision. Life as a student will be easier. The student aid is available for protected person. https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/education/student-aid/protected-persons.html
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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    Yes, You have to get admitted before applying for a study permit. I asked my school that I will still need to pay international fees before I get my PR. An accepted refugee status still considers as an international student. Good news - There are many bursaries available. It takes time to find...
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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    thank you!!!! Finally, I have the peace to stay in Canada. I didn't write clearly, i got an email in Aug told me hearing date to choose. I choose the earliest, which was yesterday.
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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    they know the whole story, even though i was trying to tell again, but i got interrupted to stop. In my case, just short questions. It's similar question to BOC form. Who do you think gonna harm you? How? Why?
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    Share virtual hearing experience and timeline(Tips for Study Permit)

    AOR- May 2021 Medical & Biometrics- June 2021 Eligibility interview- August 2021 (Took 20 mins, only asked 1 question and went through documents in 10 minutes.) Work Permit - Oct 2021 Study Permit - Nov 2021 (If all of your courses are online, you can start the studying program without getting...
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    Thank you all! I found a doctor this morning accept IFHP by walking directly to her office! What a relief!
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    No, I am in Alberta. There is a long list of doctors. I am planning to go though the list.
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    There are thousand doctors on the list. I feel it's more easy going though the list than to be honest calling IRCC.
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    Got to have faith, I'll give a try. Thank you.
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    Calling IRCC is hard, they never pick up the phone. I feel I have a better chance to find a doctor accepts IFHP than getting help from IRCC, but thank you! Planning to go through IFHP doctor lists in my province to see which doctor can help.
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    It is a small hospital. I suspected to have a kidney stone went to ER, but the doctor told me he doesn't work with IFHP and also the refugees. He did help me with basic examination and didn't ask me to pay for it. Then he told me to find a family doctor. I called a couple of family doctors and...
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    I suspect to have a kidney stone, went to ER, but the doctor told me he doesn't with refugees and IFHP.
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    I know, but unfortunate the local hospital accepts it, but the doctor fee is separate which the doctor doesn't accept blue cross federal insruance.
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    Provincial health care for refugee claimant?

    Just have this question, after I got my refugee claimant document and the work permit, could I apply for the provincial health care? I have to go to emergency the other day, and the hospital told me they don't accept the blue cross insurance for refugee claimant. :(
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    Eligibility Interview and biometrics invitation

    I don't know anything about Montreal. My eligibility interview was late, because they requested more files from me. And it was sent through Epost. You can ask whether they got all paperwork? Do they need more info? I feel as a refugee claimant there is not much thing we can do other than...
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    Eligibility Interview and biometrics invitation

    man, after waiting for 1 month and half after the eligibility interview, I got my work permit approved. Just got a notice on the IRCC web portal, said the work permit will be mail out. Good luck for everyone on this forum! Now I'll have to wait for the hearing. Hopefully, it will not be too long.
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    Eligibility Interview and biometrics invitation

    Congrats! Finally you got it! I still haven't heard anything of my WP and SP. Did you get an email update when you got your work permit through mail? Or did your work permit application status changed on the website after you got it from mail? My interview was Aug 16th, and it has been more...
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    Eligibility Interview and biometrics invitation

    Unfortunately not I aware, the IRCC phone number and webform is only used to communicated about Afgan refugees. I mailed them more than 10 letters physically and not a single reply or change of my status. It is quite sad, I don't even know how IRCC expect us to survive without working in this...