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my name is matthew keith i'm an
international student advisor here at
the university of guelph
the good news for all international
students both new students
looking to start their program in fall
or those returning that might have
traveled back home and are looking to
continue their program online
right now immigration is allowing for
those students to study online without
impacting any sort of long-term
status in canada most of you might be
looking to apply for your postgraduate
work permit or your pr down the road
and by doing that or looking forward to
that studying online is not going to
impact that if immigrating to canada is
top of mind
if getting some work experience in the
canadian economy is what you're looking
for
then we're here to make sure that you're
not jeopardizing that that coming to
start in the fall
we want you to be able to focus on your
academics while we take care of all the
issues surrounding immigration for you
we have all our traditional programming
still available for students
such as our link program and our
conversation partners program
there's lots of international specific
clubs on campus
and that's going to be virtual this fall
we also have a lot of career building
workshops and getting you
excited and prepared for life after your
studies that what that might look like
in terms of applying for work and
preparing for an interview
start international is a great program
here at the university at guelph it
welcomes
all our new incoming international
students and it takes them through
all the information outside of their
academics that they're going to need to
know whether that's opening a bank
account if you're working
maybe virtually for one of the
departments on campus and you need to
get paid
look for housing options are you going
to need to exchange currency and what's
the best place
we're here to help support you starting
here at the university of guelph