INTERNATIONAL FEE

If you are not a Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident (Landed Immigrant), or a person
registered as an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act, you are charged the
international fee:
Graduate Students:
http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/currentstudents/fees/grad/gradfee/intl.html
Undergraduate Students:
http://www.queensu.ca/registrar/currentstudents/fees/undergrad/undergradfee/intl.html

INTERNATIONAL FEE EXEMPTION CATEGORIES

You are eligible for the domestic tuition rate if you fall into one of the exempt categories
listed below and you are able to give satisfactory proof of your status to the Office of the
University Registrar by the following deadlines:

Note: A change of status is not retroactive to any previous session.

Fall/Winter Session
November 1 – deadline for reassessment at the domestic tuition rate for the
complete fall/winter session.
February 1 – deadline for the reassessment at the domestic tuition rate for the
winter term only of the fall/winter session.

Spring/Summer Session
May 25 – deadline for reassessment at the domestic tuition rate for the complete
spring term (Undergraduate students only).
June 30 – deadline for reassessment at the domestic tuition rate for the complete
spring/summer session. (Graduate students only).
July 23 – deadline for reassessment at the domestic tuition rate for the complete
summer term (Undergraduate students only).

If you wish to be considered for exemption under one of the approved categories, you
must contact the Office of the University Registrar regarding the official documentation
necessary to support such a request. Original documents must be presented. All
documents presented in support of consideration for exemption, or if requested as proof
of status, must be presented to the Office of the University Registrar prior to the
deadlines above.

If you are unable to provide the required documentation, you are required to pay the
international tuition fee.

In order to retain an exemption for a subsequent term or session, you may subsequently
be required to submit supplementary or new documents to prove that your status has been
maintained.

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If you present acceptable documentation for exemption from the international tuition fee,
and this documentation contains an expiry date, it is your responsibility to bring updated
documentation to the Office of the University Registrar. This must be done to maintain
your exemption.

Certain exemptions categories specify that both the person, who has the status, and
his/her dependants, are eligible for exemption from the international tuition fee rates.
The definition of a “dependant of a person” includes his/her:

a) Spouse (the party of the opposite sex to whom that person is joined in marriage).
b) Unmarried child, or
c) Spouse’s unmarried child.

The dependant status must be fully documented. In the case of Canadian citizens,
permanent residents, the dependant status must have been established a minimum of
three years prior to the student’s application for exemption, and this status
continuously maintained to the date of application for exemption.

Those in exemption categories are:

i. A citizen of Canada within the meaning of the Citizenship Act or a person

registered as an Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act.

ii. A student who is the legal dependant of a Canadian citizen may be exempted from
the international tuition rates. Documentation must be provided which verifies
that the dependant status, e.g. by marriage or adoption, was instituted a minimum
of three years prior to the deadline dates and that this status was continuously
maintained to the date of application for exemption.

iii. A permanent resident within the meaning of the Immigration Act.

iv. A student who is the legal dependant of a permanent resident may be eligible for
exemption from the international tuition rates. Documentation must be provided
which verifies that the dependant status, e.g. by marriage or adoption, was
instituted a minimum of three years prior to the deadlines and that this status
continuously maintained to the date of application for exemption.

v. An applicant for permanent resident status, provided the applicant has met all the
preliminary requirements for granting of that status, and provided the applicant
obtains an official statement from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, which
confirms this.

vi. A student, who is the legal dependant of an applicant for permanent resident
status, as outlined in category (v), may be exempted from the international tuition
rates. Documentation must be provided which verifies that the dependant status,
e.g. marriage, or adoption, was established three years prior to the deadline dates

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 and that this status was continuously maintained to the date of application for
exemption.

vii. A visitor who is admitted to and remaining in Canada with official accreditation
from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, who
has entered Canada, or is in Canada, to carry out her/his official duties as a
diplomatic or consular officer; or as a Canadian government-accredited
representative or official of a country other than Canada, of the United Nations or
any of its agencies, of any intergovernmental organizations of which Canada is a
member; or as a dependent or a member of the staff of any such diplomat,
consular officer, representative or official accredited to Canada by the Canadian
government; or a member of a foreign military force or a of a civilian component
thereof admitted to Canada under the Visiting Forces Act or any dependents of
such personnel.

viii. A visitor, and his/her dependants (other than graduate teaching and research
assistants), who is authorized to work in Canada having been issued a work
permit.

ix. Protected Persons

A person, and his/her dependents, who:

i) Has been determined to be a protected person, including a Convention

refugee or a person in need of protection, within the meaning of
subsection 95(2) on the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act by the
Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) or the Minister of Citizenship and
Immigration Canada. A protected person document issued under section
31(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or a “notice of
decision” issued by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada
or by the IRB must be presented.

ii) Is a refugee claimant who applied to the federal government for

Convention refugee status prior to January 1, 1989, and can provide
documentation from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to that effect.

x. A person and his/her dependants, who is a refugee claimant in Canada, only if the
claim for refugee status was made to Citizenship and Immigration Canada before
January 1, 1989, and can provide documentation from Citizenship and
Immigration Canada to that effect.

xi. A person who is a participant in an Ontario government sponsored exchange

agreement.

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