Protesting Indian students now potentially can't enter Canada
Toronto, Aug. 20 -- Canadian border agents deemed a dozen Indian students potentially inadmissible to Canada under the country's immigration and refugee protection law after checking the status of 20 of them at a protest in Calgary in the western province of Alberta, a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) spokesperson told the newspaper The Globe and Mail on Tuesday.
About 1,500 students at Calgary's Portage College began a demonstration and hunger strike on July 24 against the retroactive rejection and cancellation of their post-graduation work permits. Hundreds of international students from India have been refused these permits because they enrolled in non-credit courses that did not provide a certificate, diploma, or a degree. The permit denial put their immigration status in limbo.
The denial followed an updated policy by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that retroactively disqualified graduates of "non-credit" college programmes. IRCC is the department in charge of immigration, refugees, and citizenship....
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