Niagara College and Permanent Residency in Canada

Richard F. Southcott: The court ruling has renewed the hope of other foreign graduates from Niagara College who have taken many of the courses by distance learning and are faced with having to leave Canada early because they’ve been deemed ineligible for work permits — a pathway for future permanent residency in Canada, according to Toronto Star. We are encouraged by the judge decision, said Jagrit Sahni, another Niagara graduate, whose work permit application was rejected in October and who has since quit his job as a food and nutrition manager at a Mississauga nursing home. In a recent ruling, Justice Richard F. Southcott ordered Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to reconsider the work permit application of Rajendra Prasad Appidy, who studied information security management for a year at Fanshawe College before completing his education at Niagara College. It really tough for us. Appidy, also from India, was denied the work permit on the basis that five of the six courses he completed at Niagara College were online courses and distance learning does not count. I had to ask my parents for money to pay for rent and food, added the 25-year-old from India, who, like others among a group of rejected graduates, is hoping Immigration Minister John McCallum will hear their pleas for temporary residence permits to let them stay here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.