Study in Canada

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The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is the first point of contact for travellers to Canada. Operating at more than 1,350 service points across Canada and in nearly 40 locations abroad, the CBSA facilitates legitimate cross-border traffic and supports Canada's economic development, while stopping people and goods that pose a potential risk to Canada. At Canadian ports of entry, the CBSA issues temporary resident documents, which include the study permits required to attend post secondary institutions in Canada. Additional information on this and other CBSA programs and services is available on the CBSA Web site.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada's (CIC) has a vision for Canada to be a country that attracts and welcomes people from all parts of the world, both to enrich our economic, social and cultural development and to protect those in need of Canada's protection.

This vision is possible as a result of CIC's mandate which comes from the shared jurisdiction of Section 95 of the Constitution Act, 1867, the Citizenship Act, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

CIC's contribution to this web portal is Step 3, Determine Student Visa requirements. To receive personalized visa information, a student must provide the following information:

• country of legal permanent residence;
• country of citizenship;
• country of the passport the student uses for travelling;
• country where the student is legally living;
• duration of the course of study in Canada;
• province or territory where the student intends to study; and
• if the student will be travelling with a spouse, children or partner.

Once the information has been provided, the site will generate various steps that the student needs to follow in order to obtain a Study Permit. These steps are specific to the criteria entered by the student. This section links directly to the CIC Internet site to provide the student with the information about obtaining their Study Permit and to provide other valuable information for international students coming to Canada.

The CanLearn Web site (www.canlearn.ca) is Canada's trusted on-line source of interactive, integrated, and comprehensive information and services that help individuals save, plan, and pay for lifelong learning. Activities undertaken to support the ongoing development and growth of the CanLearn Web site support a number of goals, including:

• supporting informed decision-making by individuals in the selection and financing of learning and skills development opportunities;
• providing Canada's most comprehensive source of information on PSE institutions and their programs, to support Government of Canada service offerings targeted at learners;
• engaging individuals in the design and development of on-line learning services to ensure that CanLearn is responsive to their needs; and
• promoting collaborative partnerships toward online services that support lifelong learning.

The CanLearn Web site is developed and maintained by the Business Transformation and eServices Division of the Canada Student Loans Program, within the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

International Trade Canada (ITCan) is responsible for positioning Canada as a world business leader for the 21st Century by helping large and small Canadian companies expand and succeed internationally, by promoting Canada as a dynamic place to do business, and by negotiating and administering trade agreements.

The Education Marketing Group of the Market Support Division promotes Canadian education and training products, services and expertise. It also works with other federal departments, provincial and territorial governments and non-governmental organisations and academic institutions to internationally promote Canada as a premier study destination through Canadian embassies, high commissions and consulates around the world.

For more information on the Department, visit: www.international.gc.ca/menu-en.asp.

For more information on the Education Marketing Group, visit: www.international.gc.ca/ics-cki/edu_menu-en.asp.

The Department of Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) is responsible for providing the overarching infrastructure to support service delivery in-person, over the phone and over the Web for Canadian Missions abroad and for International Trade Canada domestically. The FAC is also responsible for supporting the applications and programs provided by other departments such as CIC and CIDA internationally though Canada's Missions. Finally, the Department also supports programs for Canadian studies, encourages collaboration with international institutions of higher learning and promotes international scholarships.

The Department of Foreign Affairs Canada is proud to contribute to the present portal and hope it will benefit to all users.

For more information on the Department, visit: www.international.gc.ca/menu-en.asp.

Statistics Canada is dedicated to producing statistical information for Canadians about Canada - its population, resources, economy, society and culture. In Canada, providing statistics is mainly a federal responsibility. Therefore, as Canada's central statistical agency, Statistics Canada is legislated to serve this function for the whole of Canada, as well as for each of the provinces.

We at Statistics Canada are committed to protecting the confidentiality of all the information entrusted to us and to ensuring that the statistics we deliver are accurate, timely and relevant to Canadians. We are guided by the fundamental values of confidentiality, accuracy, objectivity and timeliness - all completely free of any political bias.

In addition to conducting a census every five years, Statistics Canada also conducts about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life. The Agency ensures that its statistical information is published in a variety of formats and is made available to all Canadians, including to those who rely on it to help them provide the best possible services or set the most effective policies - and even to those Canadians who rely on Statistics Canada information simply to gain a better grasp of their country.

The Statistics Canada website at www.statcan.ca is its foremost vehicle for disseminating information. Access to objective statistical information is vital to an open and democratic society. It is the solid foundation upon which elected representatives, businesses, unions, non-profit organizations and individual Canadians base their informed decisions.

Browse the website and find free information on Canada. Look through Canadian Statistics and discover more than 350 regularly updated tables on the most-requested significant aspects of Canada. Unique among the world's statistical agencies is a feature called The Daily, Statistics Canada's official bulletin, which releases statistical information on current social and economic conditions and on new Statistics Canada products. Community Profiles features a snapshot of each and every community in Canada. Whatever your information needs, from publications to electronic data, from census to survey information, www.statcan.ca is the official source for Canadian social and economic statistics.

For Statistics Canada, the beginning of the 1990s was marked by international recognition for the world-class quality of our statistics. That reputation has been maintained throughout the last decade and into the new millennium as we continue to meet Canada's changing information needs and the challenges associated with reporting the emerging new trends in Canadian society and economy.