Canada’s New Student Visa Plan

Minister Marc Miller introduces a 35% cap on international study permits for 2024 – promoting balanced immigration. 

Previously, on January 1, 2024, the cost-of-living requirement for study visa applicants was revised to better represent the genuine cost of living in Canada and to help minimize student vulnerability and exploitation.

The cap is slated to provide about 360,000 authorized study permits in 2024, a 35% drop from 2023.

Canada also intends to keep working in the upcoming months to give students with in-demand talents clear routes to permanent residency and investigate fresh approaches to help international students more smoothly enter the workforce.

Fairness-driven weighted population-based caps on specific provinces and territories will cause substantially larger reductions in the provinces with the highest rates of unsustainable increases in the population of overseas students.