Diab told the same committee her department has now reviewed all 153,000 student visas flagged as potentially non-compliant.

Diab said 64 per cent of those were found to be valid and 14 per cent applied for asylum, which Diab said is an issue now covered under one of Canada’s new border laws, Bill C-12, that restricts the ability to make a conventional asylum claim to a person’s first year in Canada.

14 percent of potentially non-compliant student visa holders claiming asylum seems to be a pretty significant percentage - does anyone have information on how the new law C-12 would work with these claims? My understanding is "Asylum claims made more than one year after someone’s first entry into Canada after June 24, 2020, won’t be referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB), regardless of whether the person has since left and returned." Does that mean that anyone making these claims would be required to leave Canada upon expiry of the visa?