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

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.
 

canuck78

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Jun 18, 2017
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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.
Aren’t classes required to be in person especially for international students.
 

Simba112

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Mar 25, 2021
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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.
Your friend is right. You can not be working during school schedule hours.
 

aurobanari

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Jun 2, 2023
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Aren’t classes required to be in person especially for international students.
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
 

aurobanari

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Jun 2, 2023
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STUDY
Your friend is right. You can not be working during school schedule hours.
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.