We talked about the integrity measures we've put in place and strengthened over the last couple of years. A couple of them will relate to the conditions that international students may face when they come into Canada. The first, as my colleague mentioned earlier, is the increase of the financial requirement. This ensures that students who are coming into Canada are able to support themselves financially. They will be able to house and feed themselves and then conduct their studies and go to school.
We've also put in the letter of acceptance verification program. This is key. As many members are aware, in 2023, jointly with the Canada Border Services Agency, we identified that there was a significant letter of acceptance fraud. There were international students who were victims of that fraud and didn't know that those letters of acceptance were fraudulent. Our ability now, for every single student permit, for our officers to automatically verify with the learning institution that the letter of acceptance is actually authentic, has resulted in that 14,000 number that we presented, where we've identified potentially fraudulent letters of acceptance. This protects the students as well.
In terms of student compliance, we do require, as I mentioned, designated learning institutions to confirm for us twice a year that students are actually registered. Where we see that there is no match or that they are potentially not registered or attending school, we're able to conduct our own investigation. The learning institution can follow up. We will be starting to share that data with provinces and territories as well in the spring so that they can also follow up to see whether it in fact is fraud or if there's some other reason that the student is not attending. We would be able to collectively address the gaps in that way.