International students at Niagara College have launched a class action suit against the college. Affected students were in a four-month program that was to lead to a three year post-graduate work permit, but they allege that as their courses were almost entirely online, they were denied permits by the Canadian government. The class action represents about one hundred of the the approximate 500 students affected and the argument is that Niagara College should have known that the largely distance-learning based program did not meet Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s requirements for the awarding of these work visas.
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