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The Canadian government announced the provincial and territorial allocations under the international student cap are finalized for 2025.
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Additional Information: Master’s and doctoral students, as well as most applicants applying from within Canada, are now required to submit a provincial attestation letter or territorial attestation letter (PAL/TAL) as part of a study permit application. This change occurred since the introduction of the cap last year. The government is reserving spaces specifically for graduate students and adding a new PAL/TAL exemption for exchange students, ensuring that Canadian students can continue to benefit from reciprocal agreements to study abroad. Officials also want to target issuing a specific number of study permits for capped cohorts so that provinces and territories issue the same number of study permits to graduate students in 2025 as they did in 2023.
The government is reducing targets across multiple immigration streams to strengthen programs and help ease the strain on housing, healthcare and other services. This measure specifically is designed to ease pressures in rental markets with high student populations.
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