Foreign Students and Work Experience

Canadian universities: 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, according to CBC. But that changed last January, when the federal government introduced an immigration system known as Express Entry. What Canada needs to ask itself is whether having foreign students become Canadian permanent residents should be an immigration priority. Under the new rules, immigration applications are prioritized on the basis of a point system. While many foreign students have months and even years of Canadian work experience, many of their job offers are not government-approved. Individuals with government-approved job offers are processed first. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.