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Can PGWP be refused if a student works during school hours?

aurobanari

aurobanari

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Jun 2, 2023
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Hi everyone,

I am an international student in Canada and I am allowed to work for more than 20 hours until April 2024. I got an opportunity at a place where at least for one day in a week, the work hours are overlapping school hours (by 4 hours at most). A friend of mine told me that if I took up that opportunity, I might get refused for PGWP since I am not supposed to work during school hours. But the class is online and attendance is not mandatory. So I am wondering if someone can help me understand whether or not these 4 hours every week are going to be a problem when applying for PGWP.

Thank you for taking the time to read.
 
aurobanari said:
Hi everyone,

I am an international student in Canada and I am allowed to work for more than 20 hours until April 2024. I got an opportunity at a place where at least for one day in a week, the work hours are overlapping school hours (by 4 hours at most). A friend of mine told me that if I took up that opportunity, I might get refused for PGWP since I am not supposed to work during school hours. But the class is online and attendance is not mandatory. So I am wondering if someone can help me understand whether or not these 4 hours every week are going to be a problem when applying for PGWP.

Thank you for taking the time to read.
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Aren’t classes required to be in person especially for international students.
 
aurobanari said:
Hi everyone,

I am an international student in Canada and I am allowed to work for more than 20 hours until April 2024. I got an opportunity at a place where at least for one day in a week, the work hours are overlapping school hours (by 4 hours at most). A friend of mine told me that if I took up that opportunity, I might get refused for PGWP since I am not supposed to work during school hours. But the class is online and attendance is not mandatory. So I am wondering if someone can help me understand whether or not these 4 hours every week are going to be a problem when applying for PGWP.

Thank you for taking the time to read.
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Your friend is right. You can not be working during school schedule hours.
 
canuck78 said:
Aren’t classes required to be in person especially for international students.
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Some of the classes are online and attendance is not mandatory. There are those classes that are in-person with mandatory attendance and I am not thinking of skipping those. Just this one class
 
Simba112 said:
Your friend is right. You can not be working during school schedule hours.
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Can you please cite source for this? Because I could not find anything on IRCC's website. All it says is that I should not work for more hours than I am supposed to.
 
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