Tag: Canada study permit

Canada has announced a reduction in the intake cap on international student study permits for 2025, a move that will adversely impact Indian students who aspire to study there. With this reduction, Canada has cut its study permit target by 10% from the 2024 goal of 485,000 down to 437,000 for the year 2025. In 2023, the number of study permits issued to international students reached a peak of 500,000. The 2026 intake cap for study permits will be consistent with the 2025 cap, and the 2025–2026 study permit quota will include both master’s and doctoral students, who are now ... Read more

The federal measures the Canadian government has adopted to reduce foreign student inflows are set to have a more dramatic impact than expected. A report by The Globe and Mail, citing an analysis by ApplyBoard, projects that the approvals of international study permits will fall by almost half in 2024. India has long been a leading source of international students, but the number of students opting to study in Canada has seen a sharp slump this year. “In the first half of this year, approvals of study permits from India halved,” the report said. The federal measures the Canadian government ... Read more