Canada may currently has over 47,000 foreign students who are residing in Canada illegally and not following the rules of visas, which has created questions of loopholes of monitoring and enforcement. The data was revealed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) during a recent House of Commons committee meeting, according to a report by the National Post.

Students breaching visa rules

IRCC officials said that as many as 47,175 students are “non-compliant”, which means they are not attending classes as required under the terms of their study permits. Aiesha Zafar, head of migration integrity at IRCC, noted that while several nationalities are involved, India is one of the top countries in these cases.

The figure is based largely on reports filed by Canadian colleges and u

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