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students risk: The students are graduates of the Programme d'exp rience qu b coise PEQ a vocational and French-language study program run by the province's school boards, according to CBC. Lester B. Pearson School Board insider raised concerns about international department in 2011 It is aimed at giving foreign students access to a Quebec selection certificate, an immigration document that is the first step toward permanent residency. But now hundreds of foreign students risk having their residency applications rejected after having spent thousands of dollars on government-approved French courses. From now on, a foreign student who obtains his diploma here will get offered a selection certificate to immigrate to Quebec, said then premier Jean Charest in March 2009 when the program was first announced. Many are having their applications for selection certificates turned down after the test. But students who have graduated from the program are being called in for interviews by Quebec's Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness MIDI to evaluate their French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.