OUYA International has a customized, one-stop overseas service system for students who are intending to study in North America, including pre-departure guidance, landing assistance, study permit (Canada) and student visa (US) assistance, academic supervision and guidance, guardianship services, parental services, and other comprehensive services that both secondary and post-secondary students may need. We will even escort students from their home country to the United States or Canada, from home to school, and from their lives abroad to their particular field of study here!
Our overseas services are designed to help international students who are new to North America to adapt to unfamiliar environments, familiarize themselves with their new living conditions, and quickly enter new learning and living situations. At the same time, we provide guardianship services and emergency handling for students to ensure smooth information flow between students and their parents, so as to alleviate students’ burdens and parents’ worries.
General Services
Pre-departure Orientation
We can provide international students and their parents with an overview of how one applies to study in Canada and the United States, including negotiating university and college websites to apply for admission. We can provide detailed introductions to students about the city in which they will be living here. We can inform students about the importance of studying and living in Canada if they intend to seek employment here after graduation. And we offer all registrants a complementary booklet about studying Canada.
Landing and Financial Assistance
We are available to pick up from the Vancouver and Victoria International Airports, and help them check in with their parents to let them know that they have arrived in British Columbia, Canada. We can provide such a service even before term begins, when students are still on holiday. More importantly, we can assist international students in applying for their Canadian health insurance, for bank accounts and credit cards, including complicated banking procedures. We can help provide students with assistance setting up their cell phone service, with monthly bus passes, and a host of other issues that face a student new to B. C., including homestay placement for secondary-school students. That includes arranging or changing host families for such students, delivering the student and his or her luggage to the host family upon landing, coordinating with the host family to resolve any problems that the student may encounter. We can even arrange regular home visits to host families and provide regular feedback to parents abroad.
Documentation Assistance
While the student is still in his or her home country, we can provide a list of documents that the student will need to obtain a study permit (not “a visa”), and explain the application process in detail. We can assist the student in filling out admission and IRCC forms; we can facilitate the renewal of the study permit, and discuss next steps after the student receives an offer of admission from a Canadian post-secondary institution. Once the student is ready to fly to Canada or the US, we can assist with such immigration issues as the renewal of Canadian and American visas, and provide passport assistance.
Academic Supervision and Guidance
We shall maintain regular contact with the student to check on the student’s progress and report to parents. We can provide parents with official transcripts and attendance records from time to time. And we offer counseling and guidance on such matters as guardianship services, studying, making course selections, pursuing further education, and transferring from one DLI (designated learning institution) to another. We can readily explain the differences between a college, a university, and a secondary school here in Canada: note that “college” does not mean “university” here. We also offer exam registration assistance, counseling on student life, moving services and assistance, and introduce them to extracurricular student activities and volunteer placements. Since Canada requires that an international minor who is studying in Canada have a legal guardian, we can find a truly secure and suitable guardian for any student from abroad.
Parental Services
Parents who send teenage students to Canada for secondary studies will need information about School/Board of Education/Homestay programs. We can provide parents with a letter of invitation to visit their student in Canada, facilitate airport pick-up, and even provide visiting parents with accommodation and itinerary arrangements. For those who are thinking of immigrating, we can arrange Canadian investment, financial, and immigration counseling.
University Application Services
Each of the ninety-six public universities has its own application procedures and deadlines. Once students have identified an institution they wish to attend, we can provide counseling about university application, program selection, degree choices selection, and even student housing. We offer both university application copywriting services and English language recommendation letter-writing advice, as well as information about IELTS and TOEFL requirements for degree programs and institutions. Note that “course” means a single subject taken in one year, and should not be confused with “degree program.”
We provide not only university application assistance, but will assist the applicant by interpreting application protocols and providing appropriate university application materials. However, we ask that the student limit the number of institutions to which he or she is applying to six.