Period: Percent Decline and Students

period: The decline in international students is also having an impact on the industry, particularly in Vancouver, which contributes an estimated 500 million per year to B.C.'s gross domestic product, according to Georgia Asian. That's been reflected in widespread layoffs, according to the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of B.C. According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada data, there was a 30.5 percent decline in study permits from 96,360 to 66,990 granted to international students in the first four months of 2020 compared to the same period of 2019. That's because various homestay programs place these students in people's homes. In the first four months of 2020, the number from China fell 43.4 percent from 21,304 12,065 compared to the same period of 2019. India has been the the source of the largest number of international students in recent years. These drops coincided with Canada imposing a two-week quarantine requirement on international travellers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.