It is little know and often forgotten practice / requirement that in Ontario(Canada) temporary foreign workers or the people who have temporary resident status with a valid work permit have to personally visit Toronto District School Board(TDSB) http://www.tdsb.on.ca/office and get an approval letter for our kids to avail/continue education in TDSB schools.
The documents you need to carry:
Passport of Father, Mother and the student[orignials]
Workpermit, Visitor records for Father, Mother and the student[originals]
Proof of residence for the Father and Mother[it needs to be a bill, bank statement for the current or the last month, they don';t accept driver's license but they accept letter from employer, recently issued]
Couple of years back the schools used to insist on this letter and they ask the students to get his from the TDSB office; now a days some schools are taking the parent's work permit copy by themselves and say that that is good enough and a letter from TDSB isn't necessary. Please note that if you call TDSB they still insist that we need to get this letter and more importantly in this process of issuing a letter they ensure that they update their records that you availed the TDSB schooling for your kid. Please remember to do this, once you renew your work permit too.
This office is at
5050 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 5N8
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 5N8
Their helpline for temp resident parents is : (416)395-2880
There is an email tisp@tdsb.on.ca but I tried and didn't get a response.
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