A student received their PPR (passport request) for a January intake after the university's visa-submission deadline had passed; the university would only defer to the September intake. Members who had faced exactly this laid out the play:
- Submit your passport on time no matter what. The sharpest warning in the thread: missing the passport-submission deadline means reapplying for the visa entirely. Get the visa printed in your passport first — deal with the intake mismatch separately.
- Ask the college to reissue the LOA with the new intake date. Deferral to the next intake (here, September) is the standard fix when the current intake is no longer accepting arrivals.
- Raise an IRCC webform to update your file. With the reissued LOA, notify IRCC via webform so they can update/reissue the visa for the new dates. Members noted webforms take time to process — another reason to secure the visa in your passport meanwhile.
- First-hand confirmation it works. One member went through the identical situation in 2022: the college wouldn't extend the deadline, they deferred to September, followed this process, and got the visa printed.
The sequence that matters: passport in on time → deferral + reissued LOA from the college → webform to IRCC. Doing these in parallel rather than waiting on each other is what saved the members who'd been through it.