A study permit costs $150 to process. Refugee claimants awaiting a decision and protected persons in Canada are exempt, and so are their family members. Resettled refugees, accredited diplomats and their households, visiting forces members, and other listed groups pay nothing either. The fee covers the processing, whether or not the permit is issued.
(1)A fee of $150 is payable for processing an application for a study permit.
(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.