your documents
Canada has added a document to the Nepali student file that did not exist a few years ago — the provincial attestation letter — and it is issued by a province, not by you or your college.
The set below is what a Nepali applicant to Canada is normally asked for. Your institution or your circumstances can add to it — treat this as the floor, and the official checklist as the ceiling.
Letter of acceptance
From a designated learning institution, quoting its DLI number.
Provincial attestation letter (PAL/TAL)
From the province or territory of your institution. Required for most study permit applications since 2024.
Passport
Valid for the length of the permit you are seeking.
Proof of funds
Tuition plus living costs. A Guaranteed Investment Certificate is the most commonly used instrument.
Academic documents
Transcripts and certificates for the qualification the offer is based on.
English test result
Meeting the institution's requirement; some streams have their own minimum.
Upfront medical examination
By an IRCC panel physician in Kathmandu, usually before you submit.
Biometrics
Given at the Canada visa application centre after you receive the instruction letter.
The study permit application is made online to IRCC. After submitting you receive a biometric instruction letter and attend the Canada Visa Application Centre in Kathmandu within the deadline it states. The medical is done separately, before submission, at a panel physician.
Canada Visa Application Centre
IOM Migration Health Assessment Centre — Kathmandu
Confirm your institution is a DLI
Only designated learning institutions can support a study permit. The DLI number belongs on your letter of acceptance.
Ask the institution for the PAL
The letter comes from the province through the institution — you cannot apply for one yourself, and no agent can obtain one outside that channel.
Check whether you are exempt
Some categories of applicant are outside the requirement. Confirm on IRCC's own page rather than assuming from a forum post.
Complete the medical before submitting
Nepali applicants are normally expected to do an upfront medical, which means booking the panel physician early enough not to delay the application.
Provincial attestation letter: required for most study permit applications since 2024
Biometrics fee: CAD 85 per person
Medical examination: IRCC panel physician in Kathmandu, normally completed upfront
Canada has tightened student intake sharply and repeatedly since 2024 — caps, attestation letters, and changes to post-graduation work eligibility. Anything written about Canadian study permits more than a year ago should be treated as out of date until you have checked it.
Where this page shows a blank rather than a number, it is because we could not verify it against a source we would stand behind. A shown gap is more useful than a confident guess.
Most of your file is issued in Nepal and is identical whichever destination you choose. Each of these has its own guide with the office address, the fee and the steps.
The NOC is a Nepal-side requirement, not Canada's — but without it a Nepali bank will not send your tuition, so it blocks everything downstream regardless of where you are going.