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Masters/PhD Will Need PALs for 2025

Naturgrl

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Apr 5, 2020
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Government announced today that all levels of study will need PALs. Private schools like UCW and NEU will be in trouble.

  • The 2025–2026 study permit intake cap will include master’s and doctoral students who will now have to submit a provincial or territorial attestation letter. We will be reserving approximately 12% of allocation spaces for these students in recognition of the benefits they bring to the Canadian labour market.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/09/strengthening-temporary-residence-programs-for-sustainable-volumes.html
 

forevermore76

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May 19, 2024
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Government announced today that all levels of study will need PALs. Private schools like UCW and NEU will be in trouble.

  • The 2025–2026 study permit intake cap will include master’s and doctoral students who will now have to submit a provincial or territorial attestation letter. We will be reserving approximately 12% of allocation spaces for these students in recognition of the benefits they bring to the Canadian labour market.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/09/strengthening-temporary-residence-programs-for-sustainable-volumes.html
SOWP will apparently be restricted to 16+ months of Master's.
 

akash08

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Jul 29, 2024
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Government announced today that all levels of study will need PALs. Private schools like UCW and NEU will be in trouble.

  • The 2025–2026 study permit intake cap will include master’s and doctoral students who will now have to submit a provincial or territorial attestation letter. We will be reserving approximately 12% of allocation spaces for these students in recognition of the benefits they bring to the Canadian labour market.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/09/strengthening-temporary-residence-programs-for-sustainable-volumes.html
Since when will this be applicable? From Jan 2025 or a later date?
 

Naturgrl

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Apr 5, 2020
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I am going for the Jan 2025 intake so will this affect me? I have already applied for a study permit
You will have to wait and see if it will be processed. Statement was for 2025 intake but doesn’t say if it changes applications in process.
 

Mr_Vino

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Dec 7, 2022
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Hi @Naturgrl I will be applying for PGWP in December, do you know if my spouse will be eligible for SOWP? My program is a 1 year Post-Grad Cert.