Canada IRCC Flags 10,000 Potentially Fake Acceptance Letters By Foreign Students

As per some reports, IRCC has found around 10,000 acceptance letters by international students which are likely to be fake.

Study Abroad: Amid the Canadian government's ongoing effort to curb immigration, top officials of the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) have said that IRCC has found around 10,000 fraudulent student acceptance letters in 2024.

After tighter verification by IRCC, they found that there are many international students who have applied to study in Canada and have attached a fraudulent acceptance letter to the application, as reported by The Globe and Mail.

Bronwyn May, director-general of the International Students Branch at IRCC told Canada's parliamentary Committee that in the previous year, a stringent verification process was conducted for around 500,000 applications, of which 10,000 were found to be fraudulent.

While probing 2,000 suspicious cases in Ottawa, 1,485 were found to have bogus documents to study in Canada. These suspicious cases were from Vietnam, India and China.

New Study Permit Needed To Change Schools In Canada

As per new amendments by the Canadian government, now to change the institutes in Canada, the international students need to apply for and get the approval for a new study permit.

Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, Marc Miller said, "We expect institutions to support our efforts to preserve the integrity of the International Student Program," as reported by TOI.

How Social Media Reacts To Govt's Effort To Curb Immigration

There are a few messages circulating on the social media platform X. Some of these are -

One of the messages reads, "Canada needs a national referendum to close immigration for the next 50 years, to save our heritage & culture currently under attack, & promote growth from within, not without."

"It looks like we have learned nothing from the immigration crisis in USA, Canada & UK. UK is literally willing to pay other countries to take their immigrants and we can’t pause to wonder why. We are just letting in more immigrants," reads another message on X.

"Indian Immigration (legal) has destroyed Canada in every way possible. 3rd world migrants are bad be it legal or illegal.This demographic in particular is nepotistic, narcissistic, corrupt, doesn’t hold western values, and highly tribalistic. They’re literally killing Canadians," said yet another message on X.

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