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Canada gets top marks from international students looking for overseas destinations to complete their college and university educations, a poll conducted by IDP Connect. The education consulting firm surveyed more than 6,000 students who were either already studying at 527 colleges and universities across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Ottawa’s latest moves to help international students are not enough and the country should do more to make life easier for them, claim two immigration experts, writing for the Toronto Star. “Canada should consider expanding universal healthcare coverage to include international students, placing caps on tuition fees for international students, and expanding the eligibility criteria
International students landing in Canada will no longer need to stay three nights in a government-designated ‘quarantine hotel’ after Aug. 9 – but they will still need to have 14-day quarantine plans. “The Government of Canada recognizes the tremendous social, cultural and economic benefits that international students bring to Canada and acknowledges that there are
Canada is opening its doors even wider to international students by allowing applications to the Student Direct Stream (SDS) from seven more countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean. That brings the total number of countries covered by the SDS, a three-year-old program that speeds up the processing of applications for Study Permits
International students looking to study in Canada have access to some of the best universities in the world, according to a new report. The QS World University Rankings 2022 has named the University of Toronto in Ontario, McGill University in Quebec and the University of British Columbia as among the 50 best out of 1,300
International graduates who were not one of the applicants for Canada’s new pathway to permanent residency should consider the Start-Up Visa alternative. When Canada’s one-time pathway to PR for 40,000 international graduates went live last week, the spots were filled in just over 24 hours. While more spaces may or may not become available under
International graduates who want to stay in Canada but missed the deadline under Ottawa’s latest pathway to permanent residency still have a lot of options. Last week, Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) started accepting applications for permanent residency under six new streams, including two for international graduates already in Canada. One of those new
International students planning to attend Canadian colleges and universities in September need to hand in their completed study permit applications by this Saturday – or they might not be able attend the fall semester. “If you submit a complete application after May 15, 2021, we will process it as quickly as possible – but you
Twenty years of growing numbers of international students in Canada came to a screeching halt last year as the COVID-19 pandemic led to the first drop in decades in the number of study permits issued by Ottawa. In 2020, the travel restrictions imposed by governments to curb the spread of COVID-19 led to an almost
Ottawa is temporarily tweaking its Post-Graduation Work Permit Program to make things easier during the pandemic for international students who are either already in eligible programs or will begin them by this autumn. Usually, the time these students spend on distance learning courses is excluded from consideration for the length of their PGWP – and
