Canada Student Visa

Synopsis:   Canada international student changes 2025 are reshaping admissions, enforcement, and housing: caps, mandatory LOA verification, higher funds thresholds, and Bill C-2 powers aim to curb fraud and improve outcomes. The reforms reduce arrivals, shift institutional mixes, and force tighter agent oversight while raising questions about due process and economic impacts.   Canada’s international student program is undergoing its most consequential reset in a generation. Since late-2023, Ottawa has layered caps, tighter financial thresholds, mandatory admission-letter verification, and a proposed “Strong Borders Act” onto a system long praised for openness but beset by integrity gaps. The early data show fewer study-permit holders in the country, a shifting mix between college and university enrolments, and signs of cooling in some student-heavy rental markets.  But as Parliament’s committee hearings reveal, big questions remain: How extensive is fraud? What happens ...