Canada has announced additional benefits for international students studying in the country as well as the resumption of its Express Entry draws for Canadian Experience Class (CEC), Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) and Federal Skilled Trades (FST) candidates in early July. Immigration minister Sean Fraser announced a new temporary policy that will give recent international graduates with expiring temporary status an opportunity to extend their stay in Canada, so they can continue to gain work experience and have a better chance at qualifying for permanent residency. To check if you’re eligible to immigrate, Click hereStarting in summer 2022, international students in…

Reading Time: 4 minutes  With thousands of international students still recovering from post-pandemic financial and mental strain, the Indian Students’ Association of Victoria (ISA) has been a ray of hope. It was their ground-breaking work which contributed to the Federal Government announcement in November 2021 to extend the stay of Temporary Graduate visas from two to three years for master’s coursework, along with amendments to facilitate Vocational Education Training sector graduates to receive a two-year temporary graduate visa. A replacement visa was also announced for students who were unable to return to Australia due to border restrictions. According to ISA…

One student transferred £70,000 to a person posing as a Chinese police officer, law enforcement disclosed. The other student received a phone call from someone claiming to be from the Chinese embassy, who threatened them with prison unless they transferred £35,000. The Northern Ireland police service said it is working with local universities to raise awareness about scams.  “Criminals are posing as international police officers and government officials to target international students” “Sadly, this is a new version of a scam we have seen before, where fraudsters pose as police officers or government officials to con people out of money,” said…

These students say they are “in limbo” as Australia’s Department of Home Affairs, which oversees immigration, refuses to provide a clear timeline of when students can expect to hear the outcome of their applications. Alokita, an Indian student, received an offer to study aerospace engineering at UNSW Canberra in September 2020 and was due to begin her PhD in February 2021. “I have been suffering from insomnia, anxiety attacks and depression” Her visa has been “under assessment” since she submitted the application at the beginning of October 2020 and she says when she asks for updates from the DHA, she…

Canada immigration news: The latest official Canada jobs figures show Canada’s already record-low unemployment edged down further to 5.2 percent in April. The Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, released Friday, revealed a more consolidatory set of jobs figures, after the significant employment increases of the last two months. A major highlight was Quebec, where unemployment fell to 3.9 percent, the lowest of all the provinces and an indication of how tight the labour market has become in the French-speaking province. If you are a candidate looking for a Canada job, or an employer looking to recruit foreign talent from abroad,…

Published on May 5th, 2022 at 09:00am EDT Since 2008, the Canadian Experience Class (CEC) has offered an immigration pathway for candidates who have worked in Canada and want to transition to permanent residence. Following a temporary pause that has been in place since September 2021, Express Entry invitation rounds for CEC candidates are set to resume in July. Also, the processing standard for new applicants is expected to return to six months. As a program managed by the Express Entry system, people who are eligible for the CEC get a score on the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS). Roughly every two…

CHINESE STUDENTS NO LONGER DREAMING ABOUT THE US Although China and India are the largest source countries of international students in the US, the number of students, in particular from China, was dropping even before the pandemic. Despite overall recovery in the number of applications, this has not been the case for China. For the 2021 academic cycle, Chinese applications were down 18 per cent compared to the previous year, a marked contrast to an overall increase of 9 per cent in applications overall. While we cannot yet be sure how factors like geopolitical tension between the US and China or…

Between the countless hours spent scrolling through job sites, pouring over resume edits and rewriting cover letters, job seekers have more than enough challenges on their hands. But for international students, those troubles only scratch the surface of their job hunt experience.In the wake of COVID, international student enrollment in the 2020-2021 school year dropped by 15%, according to the Institute of International Education. Diana Vicezar, who spent her first semester of college online in her home country of Paraguay rather than at the California-based Pitzer College where she’d planned to be pre-2020, knows firsthand that the lack of support…

May 3, 2022 —  Moving to a new country to study means learning about a lot of things: academics, adapting to a new culture, making new friends. It’s also important to learn about your health coverage, so you know what to expect when you need it. The International Centre is offering three information sessions on the Manitoba International Student Health Plan (MISHP) as part of International Student Welcome and Orientation so that international students can learn all about their health coverage while they are registered as a student at the University of Manitoba. “We recommend that all new students and also…