Skip to main content
Navi Mental Health Wayfinder

Connecting with ISIAs

Our International Student Immigration Advisors (ISIAs) are here to help you sort through processes and paperwork.

The ISIAs can help you:

Permanent Residency (PR) Resources

The CIE’s International Student Immigration Advisors cannot advise on permanent residency (PR) and cannot provide assistance with PR applications. 

To learn more about PR, please refer to the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) website.

Our office works with other institutions (including IRCC) to ensure that students have access to Question & Answer (Q&A) sessions about pathways to PR. The Q&A sessions will be offered throughout the year, usually at least once per academic term. You will be able to register for the next PR session through our calendar of events once it has been scheduled.

The resources below should be reviewed before attending a Question & Answer session. Note: the slides/video available below are correct as of the date they were created. The most up-to-date information is available on the IRCC website.

Students who would like to get professional immigration support are encouraged to seek the services of a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) or a lawyer who is licensed to practice law by a provincial/territorial law society in Canada (and has specific expertise with immigration law).

Contact Us

Appointments

To book an in-person, phone, or video appointment with an advisor online through the Career and Co-Curricular Learning Network (CLNx):

  1. Login to the CLNx with your UTORid and password
  2. Go to ‘Appointments’ on the left. (If you are a student who works at U of T, make sure you are logged in to your student account.)
  3. Click ‘St. George Overview’, then ‘Centre for International Experience’.
  4. Click ‘Book immigration advising appointment’. You will have two options:
    • If you choose ‘Book by appointment type’, select Immigration advising and you will be shown a list of upcoming available appointment dates and times.
    • If you choose Book by appointment provider, scroll down the list and select either: Marc Arnold, Hanna Caplan, Aziz el Mejdouby, Justin Kerr, Lingyin (Lynn) Shen, Joseph Unufegan or Flo Zeng for an in-person, phone, or video call appointment.
  5. When scheduling your appointment time, be sure to include the following information about yourself:
    • student number
    • JOINid/UTORid
    • contact phone number (for phone appointment)
    • brief description of the reason for the appointment

Tips

  • If you can access CLNx but cannot see any available appointments, please check back frequently as new appointments are added regularly. 
  • If you are an admitted or current U of T student and cannot log into CLNx, please email cln@utoronto.ca for assistance. If necessary, you can send an appointment request by email.
  • If you can no longer attend the appointment you booked, please cancel it as soon as possible to allow another student to book it. You can watch this recording for step by step instructions on how to book and cancel an appointment on CLNx.
  • If you are cancelling less than one hour before your appointment, please email isa.cie@utoronto.ca to let the advisor know.
  • If you are looking for a quiet space on-campus from which to join your online appointment, try this app.