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Canada is offering permanent residency to up to 40,000 more students from abroad who graduated from a Canadian institution in the last four years. Photo by Armin Rimoldi / Pexels
International students and recent graduates were overlooked in Canada’s response to COVID-19, but Ottawa is now offering a shortcut to permanent residency to some of those who can fill critical jobs as pandemic travel restrictions make it hard to hit immigration targets.
Some 90,000 new spots will be offered this year, including 40,000 for students from abroad who have graduated from a Canadian institution in the last four years, the federal government said this week.
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On a patch of higher ground in Burgess Park, south London, Abdul points at the building he used to work in. Owned by the State of Qatar, the Shard thrusts greedily upward, master of all it surveys. “I was working as a cleaner, in different places,” Abdul says. “In like, government offices. I was [also] working in the Shard, near London Bridge. It was from midnight till seven in the morning. At night, there was no one inside really. Just some cleaners. Most of the staff, they come in the morning, when we get off.”
Abdul was born in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, and came to the UK as an asylum seeker, fleeing an ongoing conflict that has shaped life in his country since 1991. He is a Somali citizen, but he holds a Yemeni passport, and so the UK Home Office told him he couldn’t seek asylum from Somalia. In court in 2017, the British government department said they would deport Abdul to Yemen. Abdul recalls that the judge said: “I know what
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