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Visitors Visas: Province Ranges and Visitor Visa

visitors visas: According to Baird, the number of children ineligible for free public school in the province ranges from a few hundred to a few thousand, according to CTV. To be eligible, children would have to become landed immigrants. Some people have been here for three, four, five years and for one reason or another, they have a visitor visa temporarily or they have a series of visitors visas while they're waiting to get another status, but it doesn't give them access to free schooling, Education Across Borders spokesperson Steve Baird told CTV Montreal. In order to enroll in a Quebec public school as a non-landed immigrant, families would have to pay $5,657 a year for each primary student and $7,075 a year for each secondary student. There almost nowhere in Europe, in the States also, where kids can't access school regardless of their immigration status. The right to education is something that tends to be guaranteed in most countries, Baird said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.