Language Programs: Students and School Boards

language programs: The school's student union held the clinic because hundreds of students have had their French language proficiency certificates rejected, and they are being accused of filing false declarations about their knowledge of French, according to CTV. There is an atmosphere of fear about what is going to happen to these international students, said Walter Chi-Yan Tom of the Concordia Student Union. Concordia University hosted a special legal clinic for international students who are trying to gain permanent resident status in Canada. The students in question have passed French language programs approved by the provincial government, called the Quebec Experience Program, and administered by local school boards. Immigration lawyer David Chalk said that should not be happening. Normally this automatically leads to a Quebec Selection Certificate, but now the students are being interviewed, and their French tested again, which is leading to rejection by the Ministry of Immigration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.