A new temporary measure aimed at alleviating Canada's historic labour shortage has been announced by the Immigration minister Sean Fraser. This will allow over 500,000 international students already in Canada to potentially work more hours and international students who are in Canada and have off-campus work authorization on their study permit will be allowed to work over 20 hours per week from November 15, 2022 until December 31, 2023 while class is in session. 

Who have already submitted a study permit application as of today will also apply to foreign nationals. This major reform this morning in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, was announced by the Immigration Minister Sean Fraser and Fraser explained this measure aims to alleviate the labor shortages.

Canada is grappling with historic labor shortages and an unemployment rate which is low by historical standards and earlier this morning, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 5.2 per cent in September.

International students who apply to study in an eligible Canadian educational program may get authorized to work off-campus during their studies and this is done  for up to 20 hours per week and this limit is lifted during scheduled breaks and this policy allows international students to support themselves financially.

While also seeking to ensure that they remain focused on completing their studies because that is also important. Resulted in the Canadian government easing this rule for the time being, facing nearly one million job vacancies.

This will allow over 500,000 eligible international students already in Canada to potentially work more hours and for international students Canada is among the world’s leading destinations and it hosts over 620,000 international students, a figure which has tripled over the past two decades.

Last year, Canada issued nearly 450,000 new study permits and demand to study in Canada remains strong due to various factors, such as the quality of the country’s educational institutions, multiculturalism, affordability of the Canadian dollar and many other factors also. 

Canada has already processed more than 452,000 study permit applications between January and August of 2022 and there is a 23 per cent increase compared to the 367,000 processed over the same period in 2021 and Canada has already broken the record it set last year.

Research by CBIE said that the majority of international students report they are interested in remaining in Canada as permanent residents upon completing their studies.

Factors such as their Canadian work and study experience, as well as English and/or French language proficiency, statistics Canada research shows that international students tend to link quickly and faster. 

IRCC also offers (PGWP). The PGWP enables eligible international students to get an open work permit and in Canada, open work permits allow foreign nationals to work for any employer of their choice.

For an economic class immigration program, PGWP holders can then gain professional Canadian work experience and they often need to become eligible. Under the express entry system, the most prominent immigration pathways offered by IRCC fall.

To international graduates PNP streams across the country offer permanent residence pathways. This is done as a means of encouraging them to remain in the province or territory and Canada has increasingly looked to international students as a key source of permanent residents in recent years and it introduced a time-limited Temporary Residence to Permanent Residence (TR2PR) program. This program enabled some 90,000 temporary residents to apply for immigration and all.