Effective June 1st, 2014, Immigration Refugee Citizenship Canada (IRCC), under Regulation 2002-227 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act establishing that, student visas will only be issued to students who have been offered admission to an institution which has been designated by a provincial or territorial government as eligible to enrol international students.
The Designation Process set out in this Policy governs as the eligibility of all New Brunswick’s post-secondary learning institutions to be designated by the Province for the purpose of hosting international students requiring a visa to attend a program of study in Canada.