Can study permit holder withdraw from school with inland PR in process?

[civic]

I am applying to sponsor my wife and she is in Canada on study permit. If she drops out from school, what would happen? With the PR in process can she just stay at home? She want to finish the current term and withdraw and wait for PR so we could save on tuition. That would somehow violate her study permit rules but I guess with sponsorship in process she can still be here lack of immigration status pending for the outcome of PR. Is that true?

Her study permit won't expire until December 2015 so it will be a long time for her staying at home if she doesn't want to go to school.

 

[Alurra71]

I am applying to sponsor my wife and she is in Canada on study permit. If she drops out from school, what would happen? With the PR in process can she just stay at home? She want to finish the current term and withdraw and wait for PR so we could save on tuition. That would somehow violate her study permit rules but I guess with sponsorship in process she can still be here lack of immigration status pending for the outcome of PR. Is that true?

Her study permit won't expire until December 2015 so it will be a long time for her staying at home if she doesn't want to go to school.

If she intends to drop out of school you should send in the application to change her status. Change it to visitor. You really SHOULD keep a current valid visa for her because if you do not and CBSA decide to deport her back to her home country there is nothing that will stop them, not even an inland application. For her to drop out of school and not change her visa would be a bad thing.

 

[civic]

Even with an OWP in process along with PR, she still cannot stay here legally?

 

[azarme09]

She can. She will have implied status until DM.

Even with an OWP in process along with PR, she still cannot stay here legally?

 

[steerpike]

Even with an OWP in process along with PR, she still cannot stay here legally?

She can but its much better to have real status not implied status. (one random example is, you cant get a bank account with "implied status" ) and theres a bunch of other issues that could pop up and cause unnessecary headaches. So just change her status to visitor.

 

[Alurra71]

She can stay with 'implied' status, however, implied status will not stop CBSA from deporting her if they decide to take a close look at her for some reason. If she has a valid status, then she would be safe from them.

The idea of someone getting deported is usually the furthest from anyone's mind while we all await our applications to process, however, there have been several threads created the last few months with exactly this problem of applicants being deported and then loosing their INLAND applications.

It really is a personal choice. CIC says you don't need to have 'status' to file and application. CBSA says if you don't have status we can and will deport you at our discretion. CIC won't stop CBSA from taking action. The choice is really yours.