No. You can't.
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You CAN however certify in full at your hometown via SSI and then dive with a PADI shop at your destination
What are you talking about???? My shop (SSI) has students do classroom & pool & then do referrals with PADI shops/ instructors, at their destinations, all the time. Our shop is quite landlocked in the Midwest & our dive season very short (late May- mid Oct), plus a lot of people have no desire to dive in a quarry. Yes, I realize PADI, SSI & a lot of other agencies don't play nice with each other, but what the OP is asking is certainly doable. It would be wise to call ahead to make sure you'll be accepted, but there has almost never been any kind of issue.