My plan to switch from study to work permit. Is it realistic?

[crg]

Dear Friends,

I am in Canada right now and my status is expiring in due time. To stay in Canada, I am thinking of applying for a study permit, which I will definitely get considering my profile. Let's assume I get admission to a college for 1 year graduate certificate program starting Fall 2017.

The fee deadline for the program is mid July where I can pay $500 and defer the payment till end of September month. I don't intend to pay even after that and a penalty of $100 - 150 will be applied to my account.

What I intend to do is to work full time. I know my study permit allows 20 hours/ week. I can work 20 hours/ week on record and 20 hours off record. This will obviously result in missing many classes, attending a few.

By November 2017, (I still have not paid the fees), I' ll be married and my spouse will apply for my dependent open work permit based on his work permit in Canada. Once, I get my work permit, I stop doing the 20 hours off record and switch to a official full time 40 hours job and withdraw from all the courses in my college and forget about that program. Now I can officially keep working till my work permit expires and I only had to pay $500 to the college.

What are the glitches or unrealistic assumptions in this plan?

Any advice?

Thanks a lot for you input!

 

[yyzstudent]

Pretty much everything is unrealistic about this.

Let's just start with that you won't be able to get a study permit without having paid at least one semester of tuition.

You have to pull out of your program before a certain date if you want a refund of your tuition. Once you do, the school is legally obliged to inform cic that you are no longer a student which means your study permit is invalid and you have to leave Canada.

With a low attendance of classes you will lose your spot in your program, school reports it and your permit is invalid and you have to leave Canada.

Working illegally will get you not only deported but banned to return to Canada for several years. They are better at finding this stuff out than you think.

If your girlfriend is willing to marry you now, just do it.

 

[scylla]

You should expect your dependent open work permit to be refused for abusing the study permit process and violating the terms of your study permit by working illegally. By the time you receive this refusal your study permit will have been automatically canceled for failing to attend school and you'll be in Canada without status - and which point you'll most likely have to leave and may then have trouble returning.

So it's a spectacular failure of a plan.

You know you're trying to cheat the system. You think someone hasn't tried something like this before? CIC isn't stupid.

 

[scylla]

Both you and your future spouse are attempting to find ways around immigration laws. If you continue down this path - assume there will be problems.

Your spouse needs to be in school full time in order for you to qualify for a dependent work permit. Your spouse also needs to be in school full time in order to qualify for an off campus work permit and later a PGWP. There is no way around this. Schools are now obligated to keep the status of their students updated in a central system for CIC. If your spouse drops to part time status, assume your school will update the system (as they are obligated to do) and that CIC will know.

You need to stop looking for ways to cheat the system if you want a future in Canada.