Prats6 said:
Doesn't this depend on the skill and opportunities available? I have 3 colleagues who landed in Canada and found a job in their field of work (that too with a PNP condition) in less than 2 months. One fellow had a job within 15 days, other an month and the third in around a month and half and joined about 15 days later. I have to say that all of them were from Data Analytics which is a fairly hot category right now(?).
But I am all for students getting some kind of preferential treatment (I am not one) but not essentially make a Student Visa as good as a PR, that might be catastrophic.
If it ever went the unlikely route of making student visas as good as PR then for sure it would be likely getting a student visa would become a lot more challenging so what its worth my two cents worth :
No more prospective students picking out random courses or courses that qualify just for a longer PGWP which is very evident on this forum. There would possibly be a much stronger alignment between current qualifications,planned course and NOC codes so that student visas are only issued where post graduation there is likely an occupational demand in Canada. Any student visas allocated outside this criteria may be subject to a firm guarantee, possibly financial bond but that would extreme, that the applicant will return to home country post graduation, no PGWP or at least limited say to a year maximum.
And yes your colleagues struck lucky with Data Analytics being hot same as Internet of Things and Cloud. However so many prospective international students do not do their homework on what is in demand in Canada, graduate and then expect employers to swallow them up with job offers, LMIAs and so on. Lack of homework applies of course to domestic as well as international but the latter in many cases have higher expectations of PR post graduation and in some cases on this forum expectations based on fact they have spent thousands of dollars on a course so Canada owes them.
So by all means improve the International Students lot to qualify for PR but lets hope any changes are aimed at the top performers, not just the qualified Masters or PHDs though but even those that graduate with exceptional results from PG diplomas, exceptional being the key word so not just attended a PG to graduate.
