Following widespread denials of study permits by the Canadian Immigration Department for some French-speaking African students, the Canadian capital announced it will review its selection process and establish federal programs to prolong the stay of overseas students.
For several years, many Quebec schools have been surprised by decisions to massively refuse certain French-speaking foreign students, said Roman Schué on Radio Canada’s website.
The federal Canadian Ministry of Immigration (IRCC), unfortunately, refuses study permit applications from foreign students, despite initial approval from Quebec.
This led to a drastic jump in the refusal rate for study permit applications, It went from 36% in 2017 to 61% in 2021.
In the Maghreb and particularly on the French-speaking West African coast, obtaining a study permit for Canada is like an ‘obstacle course’.
Refusals sometimes reach 100% depending on the sector, explains immigration lawyer Krishna Gagné on Radio Canada.
Requests made from countries like France, the United Kingdom, and Germany are almost all accepted. Those from India, which have experienced a significant jump in recent years, are also mostly accepted.
The Canadian minister of immigration, Sean Fraser, declared in a report published in Spring that Canada will launch a new internal “anti-racism” study in the “first semester of 2023”, with a “round of talks” conducted with its employees.
Ottawa said that it is very open to reviewing its processes and that it is in favor of a series of recommendations proposed by a parliamentary committee, and gave no further details on how this will be preceded.
The Canadian minister promises Sean that Canada has agreed to review the selection process for foreign students. All students will be evaluated according to specific criteria related to their potential and their value, said the same source.
To sum it up, Fraser clarified that African students who wish to remain living or working in Canada after their studies should not be penalized.
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