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Three in four Africans applying for student visas in Canada this year have been rejected
QuartzSeptember 13, 2019, 9:23 AM CDT


Three in four Africans applying for student visas in Canada this year have been rejected
Three in four Africans applying for student visas in Canada this year have been rejected

What are the chances of getting a study permit approved in Canada? New analysis of data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada shows that three in four African students (75%) who applied for study permits in Canada between January and May this year were rejected. The rate is much higher than the global rejection rate of 39%.

Typically, reasons for rejection include a lack of funds and fraudulent applications. But it also includes a discretionary call which has long hobbled foreign visa applications of Africans: the suspicion that applicants will not return to the home country.

While there is no official change in policy towards Africans, the analysis notes that “in many cases, the refusal rate has increased dramatically in recent years.” For example, there’s a view that the applications from Nigeria have been particularly “colored” by the increased rates of pending asylum claims by Nigerians in Canada—now the highest for any nationality—over the past few years. Matching that trend, rejection of Nigerian applications have grown from 55% in 2013 to 81% in 2018.



https://qz.com/africa/1708714/canada-rejects-most-african-student-visa-applicants/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

Very saddening. FTC to sure

Yankee101:
While there is no official change in policy towards Africans, the analysis notes that “in many cases, the refusal rate has increased dramatically in recent years.” For example, there’s a view that the applications from Nigeria have been particularly “colored” by the increased rates of pending asylum claims by Nigerians in Canada—now the highest for any nationality—over the past few years. Matching that trend, rejection of Nigerian applications have grown from 55% in 2013 to 81% in 2018.



https://qz.com/africa/1708714/canada-rejects-most-african-student-visa-applicants/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo

I believe this is one of the reason. It spilled over to genuine travellers getting rejected for US visas too.

The Welland community is rallying behind a Nigerian family that has lived in the city since 2018 and is facing deportation back to their home country – a place they say remains unsafe because of their religious beliefs.

Morufat Ogunkoya fled the western Africa nation and obtained a visa to travel to the U.S. in 2016. After a brief period of time there, she didn't seek asylum status and returned to Nigeria.

In late 2017, her son Viktor and two daughters, Hephzibah and Rejoice, were also granted visas to enter the U.S. and in January 2018, the family entered Canada at an unmarked border crossing at Lacolle, Que., "eluding the official port of entry," reads a decision from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada to deny them permission to stay.

The decision has been appealed by the family but was withheld by the government approximately two weeks ago.

The request to receive protection from the federal government has been denied because Ogunkoya has been unable to provide evidence related to the reason behind her family leaving Nigeria.

In 2015, Ogunkoya and her husband, who she has not seen since their arrival in the U.S. a year and a half ago, became ordained ministers in the Christian faith.

This was a problem for her father, who she claims to be an Islamic scholar affiliated with Nasril Fathia, a group that professes extremist Islamic ideologies.

It is the board's opinion that the family "failed to provide any objective evidence to corroborate the father's alleged leadership role" in the extremist Islam community of Nigeria.

The Ogunkoyas have been offered an Internal Flight Alternative of relocating to Port Harcourt in the southern region of Nigeria, an area of the country that is predominantly Christian, and is "several hours" away from the city of Lagos, where they previously resided.

But she turned down that option, saying her "father's group is well-connected and there is no security in the country," according to the government in its written decision.


https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/9499563-welland-family-facing-deportation-should-be-in-this-community-/

There are thousands of cases similar to the one quoted above.

Sad.

Make una neva cast Canada too ooo abeg, I dey come oo

Who no travel from now till the next 10 years will be trapped forever

salford1:
I believe this is one of the reason. It spilled over to genuine travellers getting rejected for US visas too.


There are thousands of cases similar to the one quoted above.

You are very right. But I think its beyond this, if not, why can't they deny people asylum and grant people who want to study the study permit they applied for.

KendrickAyomide:
Who no travel from now till the next 10 years will be trapped forever

more like 5 years , US doesn't want to make it official yet but at least we can say that 80% of applications are being rejected now canada .

Naija don cast ....if you don't leave witin the next 5 years na OYO you dey oh

KendrickAyomide:
Who no travel from now till the next 10 years will be trapped forever

Exactly