Canada
A new survey says that Canada will issue 280,000 international visas in 2024. This indicates a decrease of 45 % from the 515,880 figures in 2023, 15 % lower than the goal of the Canadian government a year ago.
In January of last year, the reduction of international student visa, which was announced by the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizens Rights Canada (IRCC), was promoted by two interconnected issues.
The first was that one million Canadian international students contributed to the country -consuming price crisis. The universities and universities did not have enough housing for these students, so they were forced to rent a house outside the campus, causing rental costs that have passed the national housing market.
At the same time, IRCC noticed that tens of thousands of visa holders use a student visa program as a backdoor to Canada. The tuition was enhanced by using several times the student in Canada students.
According to Meti Basiri, the CEO of Applyboard, a Canadian -based online recruitment and application portal, the analysis and presenting of the latest data have some reasons for a sudden decline.
First, in addition to the cuts announced last January, Canada had many other policies. These include a letter that proves that international students have about $ 20,000 ($ 13,800 US), which can be used to cover living expenses in Canada, and proves the fact that there are actually spots from universities and universities. Shows the requirement to acquire. For that student.
“We must consider that English is their second language for many students, so the confusion and lack of information are a problem for them,” says Basiri. I did it.
More importantly, the top talent can go anywhere in the world. “Why they are applied to Canada, is the visa processing time high and the approval rate is low? You can, “said Basiri.
French -speaking countries will increase
Nepal was the country whose approval rate of Canadian visas has dropped to 3,914 visas in the first 10 months of 2024.
Nigeria's visa applicant's approval rate fell almost 67 % to 9,455. Colombian applicants have decreased by 57 % and decreased to 2,889, but the decrease in students from Hong Kong was -55 % (2,138 visas were issued).
In the two countries whose students have grown in 2024, 331 (an increase of 88 %) have been approved by 331 (an increase of 88 %) and 409 Saudi Arabia. did.
The acceptance rate of both Senegal and Guinea has increased considerably, increasing from 24 % to 3,634, and the latter has increased by 13 %.
The applicants in these two countries are special to the Canadian government to increase the number of French -speaking students to strengthen the number of students at Ottawa University, a French university other than the major cities in Quebec and the bilingual institution. I started to take a program.
Threat of advanced education
In 2024, the approval of international visas for students who want to be a Canadian university (in contrast to universities) decreased from 210,376 permissions in 2023 to 90,900, down 79 %. During the same period, at the bachelor's level, the approval decreased from 57,490 to 33,689, decreasing by 52 %.
At the graduate school level, the decrease was significantly reduced from 42,685 to 30,551 or 40 % at the master level, from 4,590 to 3,714 or 21 % at the doctoral level.
However, since Canadian universities have registered as many graduate students compared to the bachelor's degree, the decline in advanced education in international graduate students and Canada is even worrisome. I am doing it.
BASIRI stated that the Canadian international student visa system requires reforms and that 98 % (41 million people last year) of the country's population (41 million last year) has been due to these numbers and the past few decades. I did it. Basiri, an immigrant from Iran, emphasized that Canada had to get both “correction” and message rights.
“You need to confirm that the balance is correct. Make sure the external messages of the country are open, and that you will not lose the best talent for the United States and the United Kingdom,” he said.
“Most of the master's and doctoral degrees of degrees is due to international students. We are now not coming to this country,” he said, he said U-15 (15 research universities in Canada (Canada. The group) said that he was losing.
