Finance

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Sequencing money: when each destination wants you to pay

Germany wants the blocked account funded before your appointment. Ireland wants €6,000 of tuition paid before you apply. Canada wants a GIC purchased. Three destinations where money moves before a decision exists — and one calendar that keeps them straight.

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Students plan applications around deadlines and then discover that the binding constraint was a transfer. In at least three of the seven destinations covered in our country guides, substantial sums have to leave your account before any visa decision exists — and the order in which they leave determines whether the cycle holds.

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