hi everyone Marilene Quintana here from evs immigration
and in this video i will talk about amazing updates that happened in the
past week the first update is regarding the travel
restrictions for students as you may know the exemption
says that if you have an approval before
march 18 2020 you can only travel to canada
if your travel is not considered discretionary
and the update in this matter was that they added two new
options for you to prove to consider that your travel is not discretionary
before this change the government was only considering non-essential
those students that could prove that they have the need to be here for
example to attend lab classes workshops more hands-on
programs for example culinary arts or trade so people that really need to be
in person in canada to attend their program of
studies the government has added two options to
consider first if the person has problems with
internet bandwidth and this could hurt their
uh studying online and secondly if the time zone of the school classes
versus the time zone of your country would not allow you to attend the
classes in a proper manner for example if the classes in canada
will start at 8 00 a.m um vancouver time but in your
country for example it is actually 4 a.m or midnight you can present that
argument that you need to be here even though you are studying online just
to make sense for the time zone difference
it is important to highlight that everybody that were already a student
and were living in canada is allowed to enter
canada and their travel is not considered
discretionary so if you had a life here for example a rental
a car or here before you can also be accepted into this exemption it
is very important to say that the final
decision in allowing or not your entry to canada
it is of the cbsa officer the immigration officer that will receive
you at the airport so you have to be ready
to present all the arguments and be very aware that
if the officer decides that your travel it is discretionary
it is not essential they can send you back to your home country
the second big update of this week is that the government of canada is
allowing those who are currently in canada as a visitor
to apply for a work permit from inside canada
as you may know a visitor can never change the status
inside canada they can be here and continue to
update their status as a vista but their application needs to be sent
either to their country of citizenship or
to us of course there are some exemptions
especially for students but that's the the main rule and because of the
pandemic the government has now allowed people that are applying for
a closed work permit meaning a work permit
based on a job offer to apply from within canada
just to give you guys some examples you can apply
if you are in canada with a valid status as a visitor
you can apply for a work permit if you have for example
an lmia from your employer or have been nominated by a provincial nominee
program that was an employer-driven stream you can also apply for a work
permit inside canada considering several agreements that
would allow you for example the free trade agreement
the young professional category so there are
a number of options that you can consider to fit in this exception
the third and the most exciting updates of the past week was
the change of eligibility requirements for the post graduation work permit
now the government of canada will allow you to study the entire program online
if that is required because of the pandemic
without harming your eligibility to apply for a post graduation work permit
i will now go over five different scenarios so you guys can
understand all cases that these apply first for all state department holders
that are ready already studying in canada even that they will
be forced to study more than 50 of their program online they continue to
be eligible for the post graduation work permit
before the change they only would be eligible if they do not
study more than 50 percent of their program online so now
that's no more a concern the second scenario in a very interesting one
it is that all those who have a study permit
and left canada because of the pandemic and decide to continue their studies
online from their home country will continue to be
eligible for the post graduation work permit that's definitely amazing news
especially because some students decide to leave canada because
they were seeing that was a little bit more
difficult to work the 20 hours and to pay for all expenses
so it's very nice to hear that they continue to be eligible for their post
graduation requirement and could continue their online studies from their
home country the third scenario is for all the
student permit holders that were in canada to start a program
either in the spring summer or fall intake of 2020
and their studies will be online only meaning
even though they are not able to attend in person because this
is only because of the coffee 19 it won't affect their eligibility now the
two most exciting news for you guys and of course i left the
best to the end of this video so let's talk about these
last two scenarios that are very very exciting
so if you have been approved for a stud permit
to start studying in the spring summer or fall of 2020
even though it didn't come to canada and you are going to study
only online you still eligible for the post graduation work permit
and the last scenario and the most interesting one
if we have submitted an application that has not
yet been processed but your application was to start a program in the spring
summer or fall of 2020 and you start your
program of studies online even though you haven't been approved
just submitted your application you can continue to be eligible
for your post graduation requirements so it's very exciting to hear that
remember that this is a temporary public policy which can go away
at any time and of course you have to exercise cautious
in reviewing your particular circumstances and all the scenarios
to make sure that there is no risk in taking that pathway
but it's definitely very good news and you definitely should take advantage of
that so if you wanted to study in canada we
do have a specialized team to assist you just contact us at education at evs
immigration.com and we can fast forward your application
so you can fit on these requirements i hope you
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