BREAKING: Canada to allow international students to work off-campus over 20 hours per week

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BREAKING Canada to allow international students
to work off-campus over 20 hours per week
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Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has announced a
new temporary measure aimed at alleviating
Canada's historic labor shortages. Fraser says
this will allow over 500,000 international
students already in Canada to potentially work
more hours.
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• This temporary measure also applies to foreigners
  who have submitted their study permit
  applications as of today. You can also benefit
  from this policy if your application is approved
  by Immigration Canada, Refugees and Citizenship
  Canada.
• Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced the
  major reforms this morning in Canada's capital,
  Ottawa.
• Mr Fraser explained that the measures are aimed
  at easing the labour shortages that are being
  experienced across Canada.

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• By historical standards, Canada is dealing with
  historical labor shortages and low unemployment.
  Statistics Canada reported this morning that
  Canada's unemployment rate fell to 5.2 per cent
  in September from 5.4 per cent in August.
• Currently, international students applying to
  study in eligible Canadian education programs may
  be permitted to work off-campus for up to 20
  hours per week while studying. This restriction
  is lifted during scheduled holidays such as
  summer and winter holidays. This policy allows
  international students to remain financially
  independent while ensuring that they remain
  focused on completing their studies

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• Fraser said the move could allow her more than
  500,000 eligible international students already
  in Canada to work more hours.
• Canada is a world-class destination for
  international students. In 2021 she will welcome
  over 620,000 international students. This number
  has tripled for him in the last 20 years. Canada
  issued about 450,000 new research permits last
  year alone. Demand to study in Canada remains
  strong due to several factors, including the
  quality of the country's educational
  institutions, multiculturalism, the affordability
  of the Canadian dollar, and the job and permanent
  residency opportunities the country offers.

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• Fraser also noted in today's announcement that
  Canada processed more than 452,000 of her study
  permit applications between January 2022 and
  August. That's a 23 increase compared to her
  367,000 cases processed in the same period in
  2021. So Canada has already broken records. Set
  to the last year of the study permit processed in
  the calendar year.
• According to a Canadian International Education
  Bureau (CBIE) survey, most international students
  report that they are interested in staying in
  Canada as a permanent resident after completing
  their studies.
• Permanent resident international students tend to
  integrate more quickly into the Canadian labor
  market due to factors such as their experience
  working and studying in Canada and their English
  and French proficiency, according to Statistics
  Canada research.

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• IRCC offers a popular Post Graduation Work Permit
  (PGWP). The PGWP allows eligible international
  students to obtain an open work permit with a
  validity period corresponding to the duration of
  their educational program in Canada. An Open Work
  Permit allows foreigners to work for any employer
  of their choice in Canada. A PGWP has a maximum
  validity period of three years. PGWP holders gain
  the professional work experience in Canada often
  required to qualify for economic immigration
  programs. The most prominent immigration route
  offered by the IRCC falls under the Express Entry
  system, and PGWP holders typically seek permanent
  residency through the Canada Experience Class
  (CEC) program.

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• Canadian provinces and territories also give
  international graduates domestic work experience.
  A nationwide stream of Quebec and Provincial
  Nominee Programs (PNPs) offer avenues of
  permanent residency as a means of encouraging
  foreign graduates to remain in their province or
  territory and continue to contribute to the labor
  market as immigrants.
• Canada has seen international students as a major
  source of permanent residents in recent years,
  especially during the pandemic. For example, the
  IRCC relies heavily on international graduates to
  meet its goal of welcoming over 405,000 new
  immigrants in 2021, breaking Canada's record for
  recent immigrants in one year. rice field. IRCC
  has achieved this by inviting and recruiting a
  number of

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• candidates from the Canadian Experience class. In
  addition, we introduced the Transition from
  Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident (TR2PR)
  program for a limited time in 2021, allowing
  approximately 90,000 temporary residents to apply
  for immigration.
• Minister Fraser also has a mandate from Prime
  Minister Justin Trudeau to identify additional
  avenues for international students and temporary
  foreign workers to obtain permanent residency
  through Express Entry. In addition, Fraser
  presented a strategy in his September outlining
  how the government would help more temporary
  residents obtain permanent residency. This
  strategy includes

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