Canada Not Tracking Foreign Students After Visas Lapse, Audit Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/canada-not-tracking-foreign-students-after-visas-lapse-audit-says?srnd=homepage-canada

44 Comments

  1. KermitsBusiness on

    How is this not a national security freakout at this point, the RCMP has added literal international student gangs to their terror list ffs lol

    We are such idiots, and we keep electing the same people over and over.

  2. OnlyACsNoFans on

    Of course they aren’t.

    This government has shown time and time again that they’re not able to manage immigration responsibly. Honestly, who’s surprised at this point?

  3. Hot_Cheesecake_905 on

    Just visit Amazon, Uber Eats, Tim Hortons, GardaWorld and Paladin Security.

  4. YouProfessional3196 on

    Key point: “Hogan’s report found that while about 150,000 students were flagged in 2023 and 2024 for potential non-compliance with their permit terms, the Immigration Department only had resources to investigate about 4,000 cases.

    Moreover, the department identified 800 study permits issued between 2018 and 2023 in which applicants used fraudulent documentation or misrepresented information in their applications to gain entry to Canada. **However, the government did not take any action in those cases, and 92% of those permit holders were later approved or awaiting a decision on other types of immigration applications.”**

    The Liberal government is just blatantly enabling fraud. This should be a government ending scandal in any proper world.

  5. Liberal party of crime and chaos strikes once again. I can’t believe people still get tricked by thinking Liberals will ever make our country safe.

  6. TrueNorthStrong73 on

    Of course they ain’t! This government is incompetent and honestly, I don’t think they care, they are all about increasing the population even if it risks national security! Liberals are just bad for Canada as a whole!

  7. lol no shit they aren’t

    Got my haircut by a guy the other week who said he came here on a student visa and just decided to stay.

    Don’t get me wrong, nice guy, and I can’t blame a guy for trying to find a better life somewhere… But what the fuck is our government doing.

  8. Mr_Canada1867 on

    You dont need an audit to tell you this….. just call IRCC and speak to a Call Centre Agent and they’ll be able to tell you that the govt has no clue who’s in our country

  9. And in ten years the government will concede defeat and blanket grant citizenship to all of them.

  10. Look at the politicians in Ontario. There’s a increasing number of members with the same last name. Coincidence?

  11. They sort of are though. As much as possible. Approximately 400 people a week have been deported since November of last year. More tha ever before

  12. itachi_uchia3 on

    The Liberals just need another 11 years in power to sort things out. Just give them time

  13. Warm_Revolution7894 on

    If they do, various business owners and immigration consultants won’t be able to run their businesses, relying on under-the-table money and exploitation.Some of that money ends up at political donation.So why should they?

  14. cyclinginvancouver on

    The audit also found that department does not know whether students leave the country after their permits expire. Hogan’s office identified 39,500 individuals whose visas expired in 2024 and who should no longer be in the country, and was able to confirm the departure of only 40% of those individuals with Canada Border Services Agency.

  15. It seems like the kind of thing that could be trivially solved by having Social insurance n umbers expiring at the end of the student visa such that each company would be immediately flagged that they are employing someone who is here illegally.

    Now you have someone to go after here. if a company still employs someone after being notified they are legally allowed to work then they get fined.

  16. By design… Canada was a high trust society and that trust ie being used and abused.

  17. This is not a surprise to me. Of course they aren’t doing anything and just expect that all illegal immigrants will go home on their own accord.

  18. >Hogan’s report found that while about 150,000 students were flagged in 2023 and 2024 for potential non-compliance with their permit terms, the Immigration Department only had resources to investigate about 4,000 cases.

    jesus fucking christ

    >Moreover, the department identified 800 study permits issued between 2018 and 2023 in which applicants used fraudulent documentation or misrepresented information in their applications to gain entry to Canada.

    remember when they tried to tell us that questioning this was racism because said “students” were non-white? and they also told CBSA and other agencies to overlook obvious fraud?

    how blatent were these ones that got caught?

    >However, the government did not take any action in those cases, and 92% of those permit holders were later approved or awaiting a decision on other types of immigration applications.

    jesus fucking christ

    >The number of international students in the country ballooned after the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching more than 1 million in 2023. That surge prompted the Canadian government to introduce a suite of reforms, including annual caps on study permits. The government also set a target of reducing the proportion of temporary residents in the country to 5% of the population by the end of 2027.

    jesus fucking christ

    >However, the government has undershot its new student visa target, with just under 150,000 permits approved in 2024 compared to the government’s forecast of nearly 350,000. Hogan’s report attributes that sharp decline to fewer applications and lower-than-projected approval rates.

    a sliver of good news

    > In a statement, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab said the government accepts the auditor general’s recommendations to strengthen follow-up in cases where fraud or non-compliance is suspected.

    accept and don’t do anything huh

    >“At the same time, this report captures only the first 18 months of a broader multi-year reform effort that runs through 2027. It reflects an early phase of implementation, not the full impact of the changes now underway,” Diab said.

    jesus fucking christ

    and people start screeching about Nazism and Trump when I say we need to actually find and deport these illegal immigrants

  19. marxistdictator on

    Canada has infinite capacity to ensure somebody pays back $1000 in CERB benefits, with agents to hound them relentlessly, on a loan that doesn’t acrue interest. But breaking actual laws? Just keep on keeping on if you’re not white! 

  20. Souichi_Tsuji on

    I mean this is the kind of thing that leads to people supporting something like Ice . The liberals will juice up the numbers again anytime now and all premiers will beg for even more . What recourse do we even have as citizens of this country , the government doesn’t work for the people .

  21. toilet_for_shrek on

    Many of these students never intended on leaving, and I think Trudeau’s regime knew that. Carney’s solutions are like pouring water onto a fire that has already burned a house to a ground. Getting a handle on the numbers now is great, but we need to really ramp up deporting people on expired status

  22. How does it go again? Oh yeah, canada isnt a serious country. There’s no real enforcement of anything.

  23. So why even have a government department devoted to that? Why are we paying government employees who aren’t doing their job? They should be fired and the department abolished. At least we’d save on their wages.