CIMM – Letter of Acceptance Verification Pilot – June 14, 2023
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Date: June 9, 2023
Classification:
Department: IRCC
Issue:
To strengthen program integrity, enhance protection to address student vulnerability, unethical recruitment and eliminate non genuine actors in the program.
Proposed response:
- IRCC takes the issue of program integrity in the student program seriously.
- To support the integrity of the International Student program, IRCC currently has several layers of verification to ensure that fraudulent products and integrity trends are identified, including a [Redacted]
- To increase the integrity of the program and protect vulnerable students from nefarious actors, IRCC will begin to implement an automated solution this fall that will verify letters of acceptance with designated learning institutions.
- IRCC continues to work to strengthen program integrity and enhance protections to address student vulnerability, unethical recruitment and eliminate non-genuine-actors in the program.
Background:
Letter of Acceptance Verification
- IRCC currently has several layers of verification to ensure that fraudulent products and integrity trends are identified, including [Redacted]
- To increase the integrity of the program and to help protect vulnerable students from nefarious actors, IRCC will begin to implement an automated solution [Redacted]