Why is a work permit difficult to get for students who study in a private college in Canada?

It’s not private college but a non-spp college.

What’s spp?

Student Partners Program is an administrative framework between the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC). Launched in April 2009, the main objective behind this program was to streamline admission and visa process for Canadian Community Colleges which would increase the number of visas issued to Indian students for studying at Canadian Community Colleges. A large number of Indian students apply to various specialized trade requirement based diploma and Post graduate diploma program at Community Colleges in Canada.

Students planning to pursue studies in Canada can apply to any of the participating SPP colleges. Applications under this program receive prompt processing and a fair decision based on the documents furnished by the students. In case an applicant meets the eligibility criteria of the college applied to, then he/she will be considered under the SPP program.

Working in Canada under SPP

Work permit is open to all international students who have graduated with a recognized qualification from any of the accredited institutions in Canada be it the SPP colleges or non SPP colleges. The Work permit scheme has its own defined requirements which every student must qualify or satisfy in order to work in Canada.

As per the prevailing work permit regulations in Canada, students whose course period is two years or more are eligible for a Post Study work permit of up to 3 years in Canada. On the other hand, those whose course duration is one year or less than 1 year are eligible for a work permit equal to their duration of study.

So if you’re in a non-spp college chances of getting a work permit are SLIM.

In fact I met students who were in a non-spp college and couldn’t get a work permit even after applying multiple times and had to return to India ultimately.

Hence choose wisely.

Here is a list of spp colleges

STUDENT PARTNERS PROGRAM (SPP) IN INDIA

The Student Partners Program (SPP) is an administrative framework designed and implemented

in partnership between the Canadian visa offices in India and Colleges and Institutes Canada

(CICan). The current list of participating CICan members is the following:

1. Algonquin College

2. Assiniboine Community College

3. Bow Valley College

4. Cambrian College of Applied Arts & Technology

5. Camosun College

6. Canadore College

7. Centennial College of Applied Arts & Technology

8. College of New Caledonia

9. College of the Rockies

10. Columbia College

11. Conestoga College

12. Confederation College of Applied Arts & Technology

13. Douglas College

14. Durham College

15. Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology

16. Fleming College

17. George Brown College

18. Georgian College of Arts & Technology

19. Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

20. Kwantlen Polytechnic University

21. Lakeland College

22. Langara College

23. Lambton College of Applied Arts & Technology

24. LaSalle College

25. Loyalist College of Applied Arts & Technology

26. Manitoba Institute of Trades & Technology

27. Medicine Hat College

28. Mohawk College of Applied Arts & Technology

29. Niagara College

30. North Island College

31. Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

32. Northern College

33. Northern Lights

34. NorQuest College

35. Okanagan College

36. Parkland College

37. Red River College of Applied Arts, Science & Technology

38. Saskatchewan Polytechnic

39. Sault College

40. Selkirk College

41. Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology

42. Sheridan College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning

43. St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology

44. St. Lawrence College

45. University of the Fraser Valley

46. Vancouver Community College

47. Vancouver Island University

All the best.

Source : cic, idp