Immigration changes make it harder for students to immigrate to Canada
Recent changes to the immigration system have made it harder for foreign students who graduate from Canadian universities to immigrate here.
What Canada needs to ask itself is whether having foreign students become Canadian permanent residents should be an immigration priority. To put it another way, do we want young, Canadian educated people with Canadian work experience as our future fellow citizens or not?
In 2014, most foreign students who graduated from Canadian universities and colleges qualified to immigrate after working here for a year after graduation. But that changed last January, when the federal government introduced an immigration system known as Express Entry.
Under the new rules, immigration applications are prioritized on the basis of a point system. Individuals with government-approved job offers are processed first. While many foreign students have months and even years of Canadian work experience, many of their job offers are not government-approved.
Now, this is not to say that individuals with government-approved job offers should not be prioritized for immigration. These individuals have been identified as needed by Canadian employers and, in order to get government approval, their employers have had to prove there are no Canadians or Canadian permanent residents willing and able to take on these jobs. Clearly, these types of applicants should be prioritized for immigration. However, more opportunities should be made for foreign students.
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