Study permits & admissions
The admission and the visa are one problem, not two.
A shortlist that ignores your visa profile produces an offer you cannot use, and a statement of purpose written for admissions officers rarely satisfies a visa officer. We handle both halves as one file, and say plainly when a route is not realistic yet.
Canadian study permits are prepared under the authority of a licensed RCIC: Jay Sharma, licence R710507, in good standing with the CICC.
Next intake there is still time for
Fall 2027
Teaching starts September 2027, about 13 months from now. A Canada file realistically needs 10 months for admission, funds and the permit together.
The nearer intake is no longer realistic to start from scratch. If you already have an offer or a part-built file, that changes, so ask us.
Everything about studying in Canada →Next intake there is still time for
September 2027
Teaching starts September 2027, about 13 months from now. A UK file realistically needs 9 months for admission, funds and the permit together.
The nearer intake is no longer realistic to start from scratch. If you already have an offer or a part-built file, that changes, so ask us.
Next intake there is still time for
Fall 2027
Teaching starts August 2027, about 12 months from now. A USA file realistically needs 12 months for admission, funds and the permit together.
The nearer intake is no longer realistic to start from scratch. If you already have an offer or a part-built file, that changes, so ask us.
Next intake there is still time for
Semester 2 2027
Teaching starts July 2027, about 11 months from now. A Australia file realistically needs 9 months for admission, funds and the permit together.
The nearer intake is no longer realistic to start from scratch. If you already have an offer or a part-built file, that changes, so ask us.
Why most study-abroad advice sets you up to fail the visa
Admissions and immigration are usually handled by different people who never speak to each other. The student pays for that gap twice: once in fees, and once in a refusal.
A shortlist is a visa decision
A programme is not only an education; it is the central claim of your permit application. A course that does not follow from what you have already studied invites the conclusion that it was chosen to obtain a visa. That judgement is made at shortlisting, months before anyone reads the application.
An SOP has two readers with different tests
An admissions committee asks whether you can do the course. A visa officer asks whether your plan is coherent and whether you intend to come home. One statement has to satisfy both, and a statement written only for the first is among the most common reasons the second says no.
Money is a story, not a balance
Officers look at whether funds are genuinely available to you, not only whether the number is large enough. A balance that appears the week before you apply raises exactly the question it was meant to settle.
One file, two readers
Each decision on the left is graded twice: once by the university, once by a visa officer asking a different question about the same paperwork.
What a consultant sells you
What an officer decides
The same decision
The same document
The same file
Where to study
Which country should you actually choose?
It comes down to three trade-offs: what it costs, how long you can work afterwards, and whether there is a route to staying. Here they are side by side, including the answers that do not flatter a destination.
| Canada | UK | USA | Australia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choose it if | You want to stay after you graduate | You want a one-year degree and to be working sooner | You are chasing the strongest earning ceiling | You want work rights without the Canadian competition |
| Tuition, a yearIndicative | CAD 15,000–40,000 a year, by programme and institution | GBP 12,000–30,000 a year, by course and university | USD 20,000–60,000 a year, by institution type | AUD 20,000–45,000 a year, by course and university |
| Living costs you must prove | IRCC sets a minimum you must prove, and re-indexes it | UKVI maintenance funds, set higher for London than outside it | Proved to the university rather than to a government figure; the I-20 states the amount | A living-cost figure set by Home Affairs, and re-indexed |
| What counts as proof of funds | First-year tuition plus IRCC’s current cost-of-living figure | Maintenance funds held for 28 consecutive days before you apply | Funds proved twice: for the I-20, then again at the visa interview | Living costs plus tuition and travel, alongside the Genuine Student requirement |
| Work after you graduate | Post-Graduation Work Permit, up to 3 years, tied to programme length and (for some applicants) field of study | Graduate Route, 2 years after most degrees and 3 after a PhD | Optional Practical Training, 12 months, plus 24 more for STEM fields | Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485), with length depending on your qualification |
| Route to permanent residence | Express Entry and provincial nominee streams. Canadian study and Canadian work experience both count toward it. | No direct route from study. Settlement follows years spent on a qualifying work visa afterwards. | No direct route. Employer sponsorship first, a green card later. | Points-tested skilled migration. Australian study can contribute points. |
Tuition and living ranges are indicative and vary by institution and city. Every figure a government sets, such as proof of funds and application fees, is linked to its official source on the country pages, because those change and a number copied out of date is worse than a link.
How it works
What happens, in the order it happens
Shortlist against your visa profile
Universities chosen for your career goals and your permit odds at once, never from a partner list. A programme that does not follow from what you have already studied is the first thing an officer questions.
Build the funding story
Proof of funds assembled to the standard the post actually applies, and explained. Money that appears the week before you apply raises the question it was meant to answer.
Write the SOP for two readers
One statement that satisfies an admissions committee and a visa officer, whose tests are different. An SOP written only for admissions is a common cause of a refused permit.
Apply, and get the offer
Applications filed and tracked to a letter of acceptance from a designated institution, which the permit application then needs.
RCIC review before the permit is filed
Every file passes a licensed consultant’s compliance review before it goes anywhere. The licence on the line is his.
Land, and settle in
Post-arrival support once you are there: accommodation, a bank account, a SIM, and the paperwork nobody warns you about.
Refusals
Why study visa applications get refused
Most refusals come down to funding, or to whether an officer believes you will return home. Paperwork is rarely the reason. Here is what that looks like, and what we do about each.
An SOP written for the wrong reader
A statement that reads well to an admissions committee can still fail a visa officer, who is testing whether your plan is coherent and whether you intend to come home.
What we doThe SOP is written to satisfy both tests at once, and checked against your own profile rather than a template.
Funds that are insufficient, or unexplained
Officers look at whether the money is genuinely available to you, not only whether the balance is large enough. Unexplained deposits are treated as exactly what they look like.
What we doFunds are assembled and documented to the standard the post applies, with the source of every major deposit accounted for.
A programme that does not follow from your past study
A sharp change of field with no explanation invites the conclusion that the course is a means to a visa rather than an education.
What we doShortlisting starts from your actual trajectory, and where a change of field is the right call, the file explains it rather than leaving it to be inferred.
Weak ties to home, on paper
Most refusals turn on funding or on whether you will return. The second is an evidence problem as much as an intention one.
What we doTies-to-home evidence is assembled deliberately, rather than assumed to be obvious.
Including if you have already been refused once.
What it costs
Where the money actually goes
Studying abroad has three separate costs, and they are usually quoted as one number, which is how a quote becomes misleading. They are not the same kind of thing.
- Government fees
- The application and biometrics fees set by the country you apply to. They are public, non-negotiable, and payable whether your application succeeds or not. Each country page links the current amount rather than repeating a figure that would go stale.
- Money you prove but keep
- Tuition and living costs you must show you can cover. This is not a fee; it is your own money, evidenced. It has to be genuinely available to you, which is where files fail.
- Our professional fee
- Agreed up front, for the work your route actually needs. If a route is not realistic you hear it before you have spent anything on government fees. Nobody here sells a guaranteed outcome, because that decision belongs to a visa officer.
Who advises you
The people who will be on your file
Jay Sharma
RCIC™ & Founder, Canada
Licensed RCIC (R710507) managing your legal strategy. He ensures every file complies with strict Canadian immigration laws to minimize refusal risk.
Jeet Kacha
Director & Co-Founder, India
Head of India operations and your local guide. Jeet manages all ground-level documentation and ensures you always have face-to-face support.
Param Vyas
Legal Advisor & Associate
Advocate and Member of the Bar Council of Gujarat, responsible for airtight documents, valuations to embassy standards, and guidance through complex regulations.
An unlicensed agent cannot represent you before IRCC, and is accountable to no one if your file fails. Outside Canada we act as consultants rather than authorised representatives, because no equivalent licence exists to hold.
Questions people actually ask
Should I apply for admission or the study permit first?
Admission comes first, because a study permit application needs a letter of acceptance from the institution. That sequence is exactly why the two should be planned together rather than treated as separate projects: a shortlist chosen without your visa profile in mind can produce an offer that will not survive the permit stage.
Why do study visa applications get refused when the student already has an offer?
Because an offer and a permit are decided on different tests. An institution asks whether you can do the course; a visa officer asks whether you can fund it, whether the course choice is coherent given what you have already studied, and whether you are likely to return home. A strong application on the first test can fail all three of the second.
Which country should I choose to study abroad from India?
It depends on which trade-off matters most to you: total cost, how long you can work after graduating, and whether the country offers a route to permanent residence. Canada has a direct permanent-residence pathway that Canadian study and work experience both count toward; the UK offers a two-year Graduate Route but no settlement route from study itself; the USA has the strongest earning potential and the least certain immigration path. The comparison table above sets the five deciding measures side by side.
Do you only handle the visa, or the university applications too?
Both, as one file: university shortlisting, the statement of purpose, the applications and the study permit. The reason to keep them together is that decisions made at the shortlisting stage determine how difficult the permit stage will be, and those two stages are usually handled by different people who never speak to each other.
Is an agent or consultant required to apply?
No. You can apply for admission and for a study permit yourself, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What representation buys is a file argued to the standard the officer applies and, for Canada specifically, the right to be represented before IRCC by someone accountable to a regulator, which unlicensed agents are not.
Can you guarantee my visa will be approved?
No, and neither can anybody else. The decision belongs to a visa officer. Anyone charging for a guaranteed approval is selling something no one is able to deliver, which is worth remembering when comparing quotes.
Eligibility assessment
Tell us where you are starting from.
Three questions, then your details. We assess eligibility first, and say plainly if a route isn’t realistic yet.