Citizenship and Immigration committee  The relationship between the students, the universities and IRCC is like a triangle. All of the material should be somehow shared between them, so what the students share with the university is the same story they are sharing for a visa and vice versa. When the university shares a document with the students, it should be verifiable by the IRCC Right now we can see that things like letters of acceptance or the receipts for tuition fee payment are being created fraudulently in different markets.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a great question. The way international student recruitment works, a lot of it is based on the way the universities and colleges, and to some extent some of the district boards, do advertisements and do their positioning. We've seen, not only in a city the size of Saskatoon, some universities, like Algoma University, in a smaller area in northern Ontario, be very successful by positioning itself correctly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  SDS was the first step to create more transparency and the IRCC asking the students what they want. Absolutely, I think we should have a global SDS, but I would also design it per that country and the universities or colleges the students are coming to. For example, we know that even for students of countries that have very low visa rates, if they're accepted at the University of Waterloo or the University of Toronto, they have a very high chance of a visa.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all members of the committee for engaging on this important topic. My name is Martin Basiri. I came to Canada as an international student from Iran to study at the University of Waterloo for my master's in engineering. Six years ago, I co-founded one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the world with my brothers—who are also international students who came here with me—with a mission to educate the world.