After submitting your application to your online account, you’re on to the last step before immigration reviews your eligibility: providing your biometrics and getting your medical exam.
“How do I submit my biometrics and
where can I have my medical exam done?”
If you haven't seen the first two blog posts in this three-part blog series, you may check them out here:
Once you have paid the required fee, which is a total of $235 CAD ($150 for the study permit fee, and $85 for the biometrics fee), and submitted your application online, you have to provide biometrics and complete a medical exam.
BIOMETRICS
Basically, biometrics (fingerprinting and pictures) are extra identification they use for security purposes. Note that biometrics are valid for 10 years and if you have submitted it before, you don’t need to re-submit it. Based on my experience, 2 days after submitting my study permit application, I received a Biometric Instruction Letter (BIL), and immediately booked an appointment in one of their offices because you must schedule it within 30 days when you receive your BIL.
Here are the Canada Visa Application Centres (CVAC) where you can get your biometrics:
MAKATI CITY
Canada Visa Application Centre
VFS Services Phils. Pvt. Inc.
29th Floor The World Center Bldg
330 Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City
Schedule of Biometric Submission: 07:00am – 03:00pm
CEBU CITY
Canada Visa Application Centre
VFS Services Phils. Pvt. Inc.
9F Keppel Center Unit 905 Samar Loop cor Cardinal Rosales Ave,
Cebu Business Park
Cebu City 6000
Schedule of Biometric Submission: 07:00am – 03:00pm
MEDICAL EXAM
5 days after my biometrics appointment, I received another letter with Medical Examination instructions. After reading so many posts from the Pinoy Canada Facebook Group, I found out that you have an option to do an upfront medical exam, which means you can schedule it even before submitting your application. Doing this can result in faster processing of your study permit application, but in my case, I waited for the medical examination instructions before I scheduled an appointment with St. Luke's. Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) have designated clinics and doctors to conduct this. In my case, I went to St. Luke's Medical Center Extension Clinic in Ermita Manila and paid PHP11,515 for all the tests. If you want to check other Panel Physician locations in the country, you may check it here: Panel Physicians approved by IRCC.
27 days after my medical exam, I received the request for my original passport for stamping. The letter contained instructions on how to send the passport to the embassy since at that time, we were not allowed to personally deliver the passport due to covid restrictions. I sent my passport through LBC, and included a manager’s check as payment for them to send back the stamped passport. One week after, I received my approval letter, and 2 days later, I received my passport with the temporary resident visa (TRV) stamp.
That's it bestie! Now, all you have to do is wait for your approval. In the meantime, here's a collection of short videos from my day-to-day life in Toronto as an international student. This is my journey of making a home out of a country I am only meant to stay in for a short while.
See you all in Canada!
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