I really hope, pray and wish that they extend the PGWP eligibility to at least 80%. I mean, what difference does it make if we sit and do the program online from home versus sit in a hostel room in canada and do it?
In my opinion, it's going to be the same anyway - given that it's online, how does it matter if we sit at home and study online, or sit in a hostel in Canada and study online. Anyway we can't freely move about, make friends, integrate into the environment there, etc. due to the pandemic.
Just because we are not able to travel now due to Covid, which is not our fault, they should not penalize us by saying PGWP is only for those who complete at least 50% in Canada.
What will happen to us, our dreams, our lakhs of money, our future, everything, if suppose the January term is also online, and just like September, what will happen if they say that online is non-essential for January also? And prevent us from coming in January also?
They have to make this clear. After all, we pay so much - $21 billion per year is the total income we international students as a whole bring to the country.
Even those who started their studies in September 2019 or January 2020 are studying fully online since March, sitting in hostel rooms. Their PGWP is not at all affected, and they don't have to worry about this 50% limit, just because they already entered the country before the pandemic.
We are not able to enter now only because of IRCC rules, even though we got the approval before March 18. Now, they say that we can only enter if we have in-class courses. Just tell me, who has in-class courses in this pandemic situation? Hardly anybody. Most people have it online only. But still they are penalizing us for having online courses. They say that we can't enter as online is non-essential. And we'll lose the PGWP just because they are not allowing us to enter.
The sad thing is - if you're already in Canada now, even if you completely violate requirements like full-time studies, and take a break for the semester due to Covid, even then PGWP will not be affected for those people ( just because they went there few months before we would have gone ).
It's only us who are not able to travel, and will therefore suffer just because we are not there yet. This is so unfair.
