A common concern: if your passport is close to expiring, will your PGWP only be issued up to that expiry date, and can it be topped up later?
What group members advised:- Renew your passport before applying for the PGWP, if possible. Members who did this avoided the shorter-validity issue entirely.
- Passports can typically be renewed up to a year before they expire, so plan the renewal early rather than waiting until the study permit ends.
- Don't count on renewing after your studies finish and topping up the PGWP later. As soon as your studies end, you're technically out of student status, so you need to apply for the PGWP promptly — you can't sit on that step and expect to renew the passport first at that stage.
Bottom line: because PGWP validity is generally capped to your passport's remaining life, the safer sequence is: renew the passport first (well before your studies end), then apply for the PGWP.