“They found the gap in my funding evidence before the college deadline. The permit came back in nine weeks with no requests for more information.”
“My employer’s sponsor licence paperwork was a mess. Agora rebuilt the file, briefed HR, and the certificate was issued inside a month.”
“Points-tested migration felt impossible on my own. Two skills assessments later I had an invitation to apply, and a plan for my partner.”
Forty-five minutes with a regulated adviser, a written recommendation, and no obligation.
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For accepted students at a designated learning institution, with a work allowance during term.
Sponsored employment with a licensed UK employer, leading to settlement after five years.
Points-tested permanent residence with no sponsor required, by invitation only.
Graduate-level employment above the salary floor, with fast-tracked permanent residence.
For citizens and permanent residents sponsoring a spouse, partner or dependent child.
Sponsored study at a licensed institution, with a Graduate route available afterwards.
A study permit lets you complete a programme at a designated learning institution in Canada, work up to 24 hours a week during term, and work full time in scheduled breaks. Most applicants apply online from outside Canada after receiving a letter of acceptance and, where required, a provincial attestation letter. The permit is normally issued for the length of your programme plus 90 days, and it is the usual first step towards a post-graduation work permit and eventual permanent residence.
Refusals in this route are rarely about the course. They are about money, intent and inconsistency — funds that appeared last week, a study plan that does not match your history, or a document that contradicts another. We build the file around those three risks.
You get a time slot, the adviser’s registration number, and a short list of documents to have ready.
Video or phone. We assess eligibility across every route open to you, including the ones you had not considered.
Within 48 hours: recommended route, document plan, fee estimate and timeline. Yours to keep, with no obligation.
Your details are used only to prepare and hold your appointment. We do not sell data, and we never contact your employer or institution without written permission.
A named adviser will email you within one working day with a slot and their registration number. Reference AGU-2026-4471.
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Nine cases out of ten, a refusal traces back to paperwork rather than eligibility. Here is the order we assemble a file in, and the four documents that cause the most trouble.
By Jessica · 12 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Nine refusals out of ten trace back to paperwork rather than eligibility. Here is the order we assemble a file in — and the four documents that cause the most trouble.
Caseworkers are not looking for reasons to refuse you. They are looking for a file that answers its own questions. When a document is missing, ambiguous or contradicted by another page, the fastest safe decision is refusal — and the applicant is left reading a template letter that explains almost nothing.
Passports, previous permits, name-change deeds and civil documents set the frame for everything else. If your surname appears three ways across five documents, every later claim inherits that doubt. Fix the identity chain first, then let the financial evidence sit on top of it.
A balance that meets the threshold on the day you apply proves very little. What persuades is provenance: six months of statements, salary or business income that explains the balance, and a short covering note for any deposit larger than a normal month’s income.
“A gift from a relative is fine. A gift from a relative with no letter, no source and no relationship evidence is a refusal waiting to be written.”
Before submission, put the bundle down for a day, then read it in the order a caseworker will. Every question that occurs to you will occur to them — and each one you answer in advance is a reason not to refuse.
Forty-five minutes, a written recommendation, no obligation.
Most people meet the immigration system once, at the worst possible moment: a job offer with a start date, a course with a deadline, a family waiting on the other side. The rules are public but the practice is not — which is why an eligible applicant can still be refused over a bank statement, a translation or a date typed in the wrong order.
We do one thing: assess honestly which routes are genuinely open to you, then build a file that answers its own questions before a caseworker has to ask. When no route is realistic yet, we say so on the first call rather than the fourth invoice.
Named, registered, and yours from assessment to decision letter. No hand-offs to a call centre.
Quoted in writing before any work starts, with government charges listed separately.
Every consultation ends in a document you keep, whether or not you instruct us.
Nobody can promise a visa. We promise the strongest file the facts allow.
Sponsored work routes and refusal reviews. Writes most of what you read on our blog.
Study permits, Blue Card salary evidence, and the funding files that go with them.
Points-tested migration, skills assessments and partner points strategy.
Forty-five minutes, a written recommendation, and a clear answer on whether to proceed.
