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my name is matthew keith i'm an

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international student advisor here at

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the university of guelph

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the good news for all international

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students both new students

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looking to start their program in fall

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or those returning that might have

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traveled back home and are looking to

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continue their program online

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right now immigration is allowing for

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those students to study online without

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impacting any sort of long-term

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status in canada most of you might be

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looking to apply for your postgraduate

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work permit or your pr down the road

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and by doing that or looking forward to

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that studying online is not going to

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impact that if immigrating to canada is

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top of mind

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if getting some work experience in the

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canadian economy is what you're looking

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for

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then we're here to make sure that you're

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not jeopardizing that that coming to

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start in the fall

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we want you to be able to focus on your

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academics while we take care of all the

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issues surrounding immigration for you

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we have all our traditional programming

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still available for students

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such as our link program and our

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conversation partners program

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there's lots of international specific

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clubs on campus

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and that's going to be virtual this fall

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we also have a lot of career building

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workshops and getting you

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excited and prepared for life after your

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studies that what that might look like

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in terms of applying for work and

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preparing for an interview

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start international is a great program

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here at the university at guelph it

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welcomes

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all our new incoming international

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students and it takes them through

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all the information outside of their

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academics that they're going to need to

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know whether that's opening a bank

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account if you're working

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maybe virtually for one of the

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departments on campus and you need to

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get paid

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look for housing options are you going

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to need to exchange currency and what's

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the best place

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we're here to help support you starting

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here at the university of guelph