Ah, but in UK we don't get a student permit - we just get handed the key to an aircraft and (if we're going out of the circuit) a sheet of paper from the CFI telling us what we're supposed to do, where we're supposed to go and when we're suposed to be back.
I've still got my Canadian Student Permit from around 1996, when I started PPL training - wonder whether they'll still recognise it??!!
[Edited by CB to add congratulations to BlokeInAnArcher and apologise for permitting the thread hijack to continue deflecting the glory from him! Well done - hope you get let lose in a hairyplane for Duxford!]