Auditor Normal Karen Hogan says there are vital weaknesses within the integrity controls for the Worldwide Pupil Program.
An audit of this system being revealed as we speak says about 150,000 instances in 2023 and 2024 have been flagged as a result of the scholar visa holders might not have complied with the phrases of their research permits.
The report says solely about 4,000 investigations have been launched, and of these 1,600 have been marked as inconclusive after the scholar in query didn’t reply to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Division officers informed the auditor they solely have the price range to conduct 2,000 of those investigations yearly.
The division additionally didn’t comply with up on 800 instances of candidates for accepted research allow purposes utilizing bogus paperwork or misrepresented data on their purposes between 2018 and 2023, the auditor discovered.
The audit says virtually all of those visa holders utilized for another type of immigration standing to remain in Canada and 456 obtained approvals.
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