If your dependent child (currently on a study permit as your dependent) is finishing high school and will need to continue as a student, and you're separately extending your own closed work permit, the group's advice was to keep the applications separate.
- File your son's study permit as its own, separate application once he's ready to move on to college, rather than combining it with your work permit extension.
- Applying for a study permit from within Canada (as opposed to from abroad) was described as easier and carries a very high approval likelihood in the group's experience.
- Combining applications (parent's work permit extension plus child's new study permit as if linked) was flagged as adding complications versus filing them independently.
Bottom line: treat your child's transition into their own study permit as an independent application timed around their college admission, rather than bundling it with your closed work permit extension.