12/10/2023
🇨🇦 Updates regarding prospective and current international students in Canada. Save this video and send it to anyone you know who might be interested in obtaining a study permit.
On December 7th, 2023, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced that:
1️⃣Starting January 1, 2024, the cost-of-living financial requirement for study permit applicants will be raised. For 2024, a single applicant will need to show they have $20,635, in addition to their first year of tuition and travel costs. This change will apply to new study permit applications received on or after January 1, 2024.
2️⃣The waiver on the 20-hour-per-week limit on the number of hours international students are allowed to work off campus while class is in session will be extended to April 30, 2024. International students already in Canada, as well as applicants who have already submitted an application for a study permit as of December 7, 2023, will be able to work off campus more than 20 hours per week until that time.
3️⃣The facilitative measure that allowed international students to count time spent studying online towards the length of a future post-graduation work permit, as long as it constitutes less than 50% of the program of study, will continue to be in place for students who begin a study program before September 1, 2024. This measure will no longer apply to students who begin a study program on or after that date. Distance learning facilitation measures were first implemented in 2020 in response to travel restrictions during the pandemic and were reduced in scope in September 2022.
4️⃣In response to labour market disruptions during the pandemic and post-pandemic recovery, a temporary policy was introduced on 3 occasions to provide an additional 18-month work permit to post-graduation work permit holders as their initial work permit was expiring. Foreign nationals with a post-graduation work permit expiring up to Dec 31, 2023, remain eligible to apply.However, this temporary policy will not be extended further.
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