An applicant's study-permit decision was so delayed they couldn't provide the university the letter of introduction needed to register — losing the seat, taking a fee refund, with no next intake available for the program. Two months later the permit was still "in process", and the applicant wondered about keeping it alive or applying to the UK/France meanwhile. The thread's reasoning:
- A pending application built on a dead LOA is pointless — withdraw it. The consensus: once the university refused deferral and refunded the fees, the LOA underpinning the application no longer reflects reality. Members called keeping it running "pretty much pointless" and withdrawal the reasonable option.
- Don't bank on an approval you can't use. The applicant hoped a late PPR might let them re-approach the college, pay a new deposit, and swap in a fresh LOA by webform. Members pushed back: with the LOA invalid, the deferment refused, and the fees returned, an approval based on the old file wouldn't line up with any actual enrolment — and IRCC deciding on outdated facts isn't something to quietly hope for. An applicant is expected to keep their file truthful; if the material basis (enrolment) has collapsed, tell IRCC or withdraw.
- Parallel applications to other countries were the applicant's real question. The thread didn't fully resolve whether a pending Canadian file hurts a UK/France application, but the withdrawal advice implicitly answers it: close out the dead application so other applications rest on a clean, honest footing.
Takeaway: when the enrolment behind a study-permit application disappears (refund taken, no deferral, no next intake), the clean move is withdrawal — not waiting to see what IRCC does with a file that no longer matches the facts.