Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 05:40am on 04 Nov 2025,Tuesday India Global
Canada rejected 74% of Indian student visa applications in August 2025, more than double the 32% rejection rate from a year earlier, as part of stricter immigration controls. Indian applications plummeted from 20,900 in August 2023 to just 4,515 in August 2025. The crackdown follows fraud concerns, with Canadian authorities uncovering nearly 1,550 fraudulent study permit applications in 2023, mostly from India, and detecting over 14,000 potentially fraudulent acceptance letters in 2024. Universities like Waterloo report two-thirds decline in Indian enrollment. The measures coincide with strained India-Canada relations following former PM Trudeau's allegations about India's involvement in Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing, which New Delhi strongly denies. (PC: Firstpost & The Indian Express)
