As many as 47,000 foreign students may have violated the terms of their visa and are currently in the country illegally, a representative for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada revealed at a House of Commons committee.

Aiesha Zafar, the head of migration integrity at the agency, said that 47,175 people who entered Canada as students are potentially “non-compliant,” meaning that they are not attending classes as required by the terms of their visa.

“We have not yet determined whether or not they are fully non-compliant, these are initial results that the institutions provide to us,” Zafar told a Sept. 23 sitting of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.

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Zafar was responding to queries by Conservative MP

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