Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Fee — $150

• 300 (1) A fee of $150 is payable for processing an application for a study permit.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) The following persons are not required to pay the fee referred to in subsection (1):

  • (a) a person in Canada who has made a refugee claim that has not yet been determined by the Refugee Protection Division, and their family members;

  • (b) a person in Canada on whom refugee protection has been conferred, and their family members;

  • (c) a person who is a member of the Convention refugees abroad class or a humanitarian-protected persons abroad class, and their family members;

  • (d) a properly accredited diplomat, consular officer, representative or official of a country other than Canada, of the United Nations or any of its agencies or of any intergovernmental organization of which Canada is a member, the members of the suite of such a person and the family members of such a person;

  • (e) a member of the armed forces of a country that is a designated state for the purposes of the Visiting Forces Act, including a person who has been designated as a civilian component of that visiting force under paragraph 4(c) of that Act, and their family members;

  • (f) a person who holds a study permit and is temporarily destitute, as described in paragraph 208(a);

  • (g) a person whose study in Canada is under an agreement or arrangement between Canada and another country that provides for reciprocity of student exchange programs;

  • (h) a person who works in Canada as an officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service or of United States Customs carrying out pre-inspection duties, as an American member of the International Joint Commission or as a United States grain inspector, and their family members; and

  • (i) a United States Government official in possession of an official United States passport who is assigned to a temporary posting in Canada, and their family members.