British Columbia has by far the lowest rate of international students transitioning to permanent residency among the provinces
The increasing flow of international students into universities and colleges has filled Canada with potential new citizens, campuses with diversity and postsecondary coffers with much-needed revenue from the hefty tuition fees the students pay.
But a new study of more than a thousand of these students has found that while the program is working well for institutions and employers – with a ready pool of entry-level workers in jobs many Canadians don’t want –As reporter Xiao Xu writes, Dr. Jenny Francis, a geography faculty member at Langara College in Vancouver, sent a 60-question survey to 7,000 students attending Langara, as well as the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, B.C., with 1,282 students agreeing to participate.
Among the provinces, British Columbia has by far the lowest rate of international students transitioning to permanent residency, both five years and 10 years after their first study permits.Part of the problem is that Canada only expects between 30 and 50 per cent of them to stay, so the supports available to students are minimal. Many find themselves working minimum-wage jobs to pay for housing, causing difficulties with maintaining academic excellence.
Dr. Sandra Schinnerl, a researcher at UBC’s Centre for Migration Studies, has found the number of international students who make it through the process to eventually obtain citizenship has stayed at about 30 per cent over the last two decades. “Nothing’s really changed from a policy perspective,” she said. “But you are having an increasing number of very disappointed international students.”
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