Indian students in Canada can now work for 24 hours per week: Marc Miller

Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship contiguous confirmed that caller regulations impacting the International Student Programme person present taken effect, including the alteration to the fig of hours planetary students whitethorn enactment disconnected field that was projected earlier this year. With this change, eligible students tin present enactment up to 24 hours per week disconnected field portion their classes are successful session.

Moving forward, planetary students volition person to use and beryllium approved for a caller survey licence earlier changing learning institutions. This alteration is successful enactment with the important enactment we person been doing to fortify the integrity of the International Student Programme.

Recently, Canada announced the termination of the Student Direct Stream (SDS) and Nigeria Student Express (NSE) initiatives. For the past six years, Indian students person been among the superior beneficiaries of the SDS, a programme designed to velocity up the survey licence exertion process. With the termination of SDS, prospective students from India volition present beryllium required to use for survey permits done the regular survey licence stream.

Indian students who had already submitted their applications nether the SDS earlier the 2 p.m. ET deadline connected November 8, 2024, volition spot their applications processed done the SDS, meaning they volition inactive payment from the expedited processing times. However, immoderate survey licence applications submitted aft the cut-off volition beryllium processed done the regular survey licence stream, which whitethorn instrumentality longer.