Does anyone here have any experience with taking professional exams while on a post-grad work permit? Similar to mine, I assume everyone has the following condition:
"Unless authorized, prohibited from attending any educational institution and taking any academic, professional or vocational training course."
For anyone who's not familiar with the CFA exams, they're literally just that: exams (3 in total). They provide you with the course material (either electronic or print), and you study at your own pace and take the exam. Or you can just not show up and take the exam at the next offering. There's a suggest curriculum, but you don't have to follow it. It's purely your own choice. The only thing that concerns me is that once you pass all 3, and you have the necessary experience, you can obtain the charter and your professional designation.
I'd like to register for the June offering in September, but I want to know if this would be violating the terms on my work permit. I called CIC and I was advised that any course that's offered outside of Canada does not require the need for a study permit. In the case of the CFA exams, because the CFA designation is recognized worldwide, they have test centres around the world for the same exam, on the same day.
Any insight would be much appreciated! It doesn't help that my division got bought out by another and I'd like to improve my skillset by going down the CFA designation route because I'm already terribly stressed out about my PR application that's in process!
"Unless authorized, prohibited from attending any educational institution and taking any academic, professional or vocational training course."
For anyone who's not familiar with the CFA exams, they're literally just that: exams (3 in total). They provide you with the course material (either electronic or print), and you study at your own pace and take the exam. Or you can just not show up and take the exam at the next offering. There's a suggest curriculum, but you don't have to follow it. It's purely your own choice. The only thing that concerns me is that once you pass all 3, and you have the necessary experience, you can obtain the charter and your professional designation.
I'd like to register for the June offering in September, but I want to know if this would be violating the terms on my work permit. I called CIC and I was advised that any course that's offered outside of Canada does not require the need for a study permit. In the case of the CFA exams, because the CFA designation is recognized worldwide, they have test centres around the world for the same exam, on the same day.
Any insight would be much appreciated! It doesn't help that my division got bought out by another and I'd like to improve my skillset by going down the CFA designation route because I'm already terribly stressed out about my PR application that's in process!
