The refusal rate, the report stated, had been on the rise since the Covid-19 restrictions and air travel ban were lifted by Canada in 2021
Lakhs of students from Punjab and Haryana who have good IELTS scores, academic record and financial background have been refused Canadian visas for studies abroad, according to a report in thewire.in.
The refusal rate, the report stated, had been on the rise since the Covid-19 restrictions and air travel ban were lifted by Canada in 2021. However, the rejection of study visa permits has risen to 60% over the past few days. In fact, the visas of even those students who had IELTS scores of 6.5 to 7 bands were refused.
The report spoke also said that the reasons for the refusal were due to the high pendency rate of applications in different categories, fraud documentation by students in some cases, licensing issues with certain private colleges and also rising cases of gang wars involving Punjabi men in Canada. Education consultants in Punjab and Canada said that the refusal rate of study visa permits could go up in the coming months.
In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic on travel and access to services to submit the required documentation for a complete application, there was a 36% decrease compared to 2020, when Canada had issued 2,56,740 study permits
Quoting a recent CBC News report, thewire.in story said that of the more than two million temporary resident and permanent resident (PR) applications pending in Canada, nearly a million came from India. The report also mentioned that at present, Canada had a backlog of more than 2.4 million immigration applications as of June 29, up from 1.8 million applications in March. The data was received from Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) department.
A report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration was tabled in the Canadian House of Commons in May titled ‘Differential treatment in recruitment and acceptance rates of foreign students in Quebec and rest of Canada’. According to this report, in 2021, the total number of Study Permit Applications refused and processed from India were 91,439 and 225,402, respectively. The refusal rate was nearly 41%. In the case of India, the number of PR applications stood at 96,378 and the number of temporary residence applications was 430,286. The total number of pending applications was 9,56,950, the highest across the world. As per the report, the number of study visa permits increased by 52% from 2,64,625 in 2016 to 4,02,427 in 2019, which was the highest since Canada’s study visa programme started.
In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic on travel and access to services to submit the required documentation for a complete application, there was a 36% decrease compared to 2020, when Canada had issued 2,56,740 study permits.
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