Highlights:

Canada rejected 74 percent of Indian student visa applications in 2025, up from 32 percent last year.

IRCC approved only 1,196 of 4,515 applications from Indian students in August 2025.

India previously accounted for over one-quarter of Canada’s international student applicants in 2023.

Global student visa rejection rate remains around 40 percent, while Chinese applicants faced a 24 percent refusal rate. - Advertisement -

Canada capped international study permits at 437,000 for 2025, reducing approvals for Indian students by 31 percent.

Nearly 90,000 fewer study permits were issued to Indian applicants in the first half of 2025 compared to 2024.

Policy changes follow fraud cases involving about 1,550 fake Indian study permit applications linked to forged admission lette

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