Information for minors

Study permits: Guidelines on minor children

Royal Roads international students who are travelling to Canada with minors or consider to be a minors, please visit the IRCC website for the following information:

  • Who is a minor?
  • Do minor requries a study permit required? 
  • Applying from overseas
  • Applying at a port of entry
  • Applying inland
  • When a custodian is required for minors
  • Mandatory custodianship requirement (under 17 years of age)
  • Discretionary custodianship requirement (17 to 18 or 19 years of age)

Studying in Canada as a minor

Royal Roads international students who are in Canada with minors or consider to be a minors, please visit the  IRCC website for the following information:

  • Caring for a minor child in Canada: Parents or legal guardians or custodians
  • How to appoint a custodian
  • Find out if your child needs a study permit to enrol in school
  • Why get a study permit if the minor doesn’t need one
  • Applying for a study permit for a minor from outside of Canada
  • Minor who is already in Canada
  • Applying for a study permit and study permit extension in Canada
  • What is the study permit expires for minor

Minor children travelling to Canada

Royal Roads international students who are minors, please visit the IRCC website for the following information: Minor children entering Canada as a visitor: 

  • Travelling alone
  • Travelling with one parent only
  • If the parents are separated or divorced, and share custody of the child
  • If the parents are separated or divorced and one of them has sole custody of the child
  • If one of the child’s parents is deceased
  • Travelling with a legal guardian or adoptive parents
  • Travelling with a person other than their parents or legal guardian