The partnership between Languages Canada and BorderPass was introduced in April 2025 to offer authorized help to worldwide college students making use of to Languages Canada’s member organisations at a crucial time for the sector.
“With visa refusals at file highs, this partnership provides worldwide college students and their brokers the instruments and authorized help wanted to navigate a posh system and submit stronger functions,” Jonathan Sherman, head of partnerships at BorderPass, instructed The PIE.
“It’s about ensuring each pupil’s story is clearly instructed and pretty thought of,” added Sherman.
Final yr, greater than half of all customer visas had been refused entry into Canada, marking a 14% improve on the earlier yr and having a profound influence on the language schooling sector which will depend on short-term college students from overseas.
By increasing entry to BorderPass’ authorized providers, the collaboration goals to spice up acceptance charges by enhancing the standard of visa functions.
The help shall be obtainable for these making use of for research permits and momentary resident visas (TRVs), in addition to extension functions, Languages Canada confirmed.
It can additionally enable college students to attraction their visa rejections, with BorderPass recording an 80% success charge in overturning research allow visa refusals from the IRCC.
“When a bona fide pupil is refused a visa by a low high quality software or for invalid causes, this can be very disappointing for them, their households, and their company or establishment,” mentioned Languages Canada government director Gonzalo Peralta: “We wish to be a part of the answer to right this.”
Beforehand, it was troublesome for worldwide college students and businesses to entry knowledgeable immigration recommendation, and the price of lodging a judicial evaluation at a typical regulation agency can attain CA $8,000, based on BorderPass.
BorderPass affords the identical providers at considerably diminished prices, with Languages Canada members receiving an extra 10% low cost, in addition to continued authorized help freed from cost all through their keep in Canada, mentioned Peralta.
Ensuring that as many functions are accepted is totally essential at the moment
Gonzalo Peralta, Languages Canada
In current months, Canadian language colleges have reported higher-than-usual visa refusal charges, a pattern which might be traced throughout Canada’s worldwide greater schooling sector.
And but, what Peralta referred to as “extra worrisome” are the explanations for refusal, which in lots of instances look like invalid, and have sparked considerations about IRCC processing programs.
“Scholar curiosity in Canada for language and different schooling stays excessive… ensuring that as many functions are accepted is totally essential at the moment,” he added.
Particularly, stakeholders have raised worries that understaffing on the IRCC has overburdened immigration officers and that fixed coverage modifications since January 2024 might have resulted in gaps within the system.
“Visa officers are given much less and fewer time to guage functions, that means they need to make snap selections and need to ‘play it protected’ to do their job in defending Canada from unwarranted or non-desired candidates,” mentioned Peralta.
What’s extra, the usage of expertise for group functions may be resulting in inconsistencies and generic causes for refusal, based on BorderPass.
