amarnadh007 said:
The college am opted is New Burshwik community college. Because of its cheap tution fees. But i want to know whether we get stay back after completing the course in NBCC..? My consultant told me that its not possible... It comes under ACCC. So please help me....plse am witing for your replies.......
Hi,
After getting LOA (letter of acceptance/ admission) from NBCC, you must apply for Canadian study permit under
Generic category.
To know more about General/generic route, see the official checklist (acco. to which you have to prepare your application):
http://www.vfs-canada.co.in/pdf/study_permit_20-09-2012.pdf
To know more about general Canadian study permit see:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/study.asp
You can definitely stay back in Canada- temporarily (by applying for PGWP-post grad work permit) or permanently ((by applying for PGWP, working on PGWP, meeting eligibility criteria and then applying for 1 of various student immigration routes). Staying back temporarily or permanently has NOTHING to do with college coming or not under ACCC. Your consultant is ABSOLUTELY WRONG on this.
Then, once you get visa... and start studying... you can immediately start working ON-CAMPUS(provided you bag a job) or OFF campus (after 6 months of actual studies in Canada) by applying for an OFF CAMPUS WORK PERMIT.
To know more about OCWP:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-offcampus.asp
Moreover, if your course has a co-op(internship) term attached to it, you can also work full time in internship(co-op) by applying for a co-op work permit.
To know more:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-coop.asp
If you study a min. 2 academic years/ 4 terms/atleast 16 months of actual study, then you will be eligible for a 3 years PGWP- Post Grad Work Permit (max possible, and highly reccomended for those aiming for immigration). If you do any recognized course less than 2 acd./4 terms duration, you will be eligible for study permit equivalent to the duration of study. In case of this particular HR PG certificate at GBC, you will be eligble for 1 year PGWP.
To know more about
PGWP: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-postgrad.asp
Once you get PGWP, you have many options to stay back in Canada permanently, by applying to one of various student immigration programmes. remember MOST student immigration programmes, requires graduates to find a full time skilled job (NOC O,A, or B) which may or may not be in one's field and you may be required to work anywhere between 0-12 months (all depnding upon different immigration programmes you choose to apply under).
NOC O,A and B level jobs are classified as skilled jobs.. while NOC C as semi-skilled jobs and finally NOC D as unskilled jobs. To get more idea, see the official matrix:
http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/noc/english/noc/2011/pdf/Matrix.pdf
There are various student immigration programmes which includes Federal CEC (for students of all provinces outside Quebec, which includes New Brunswick) to other student provincial nominee programmes (PNPs) offered by various other individual provinces, In these cases, if you are eligible, students 1st apply for provincial nomination, and once they get nomination from the province, next stage is to apply for the PR with the federal govt. Unfortunately, New Brunswick has NO student PNP and after passing out of NBCC, you will either have to apply for PR under Fedral CEC or move to other province and apply for PR under their provincial nomination programme.
To know more about various student immigration programmes, read particularly the "
MARCH 2013 update" post on this thread near bottom:
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/various-immigration-programmes-for-international-students-in-canada-t100908.45.html
(Here all official websites of various immigration programmes as well as the gist of each programme is mentioned.)
Keep in mind, that no immigration programmes are permanent, and it will definitely change to some or larger degree, by the time you graduate. For example, just recently province of Nova Scotia stopped it's international graduate PNP.
So, before listening to any consultant blindly, you must always go through the official sites, for up to date info and do some research on your own.
Hope it helps
Best of Luck
**All opinions expressed are purely personal, and pieces of information mentioned are to the best of my knowledge... You should consult other sources too