The province attracts some of the highest numbers of international students intending to stay in Canada, but has the lowest rate of permanent residency offers
British Columbia has the lowest rate of offering permanent residency to international students in Canada despite attracting the second highest number of students to stay in the province after graduating, highlights new research.
The report entitled ‘Study, Work, Stay? Pathways & Outcomes for International Students in BC’ is yet to be released, but the unpublished version and data behind the scenes was shared with New Canadian Media by project director Jenny Francis. The survey results note that International students have become a new class of temporary foreign workers “within a Canadian economy heavily dependent on temporary workers” but do not have adequate pathways to employment in their chosen fields of study.
International students pay up to five times more in tuition fees on top of paying for rent, food and other necessities, and are restricted to working 20 hours a week. This limitation was temporarily lifted in October 2022 for some students until December 2023 as a move to bolster the labour market during worker shortages.
Forty-two per cent of respondents said they used an international immigration consultant and a third used a recruitment agency for international students.
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