Student Startup Visa
This is a fast tracked Permanent Resident program for Student Entrepreneurs. Qualified Canadian University students and recent graduates may now fast-track their Permanent Residency through the Government of Canada’s SUV Program.
Why Canada’s Startup Visa Program?
It is believe high-potential international graduates trained in Canada, who are motivated to build innovative companies, should have a straight forward way to incubate their startups in Canada while quickly becoming Permanent Residents of Canada. We believe keeping this profile of Canadian university graduates in Canada is of huge value to Canada.
Terms and Principles of Startup Visa Program:
- This program is ONLY for high potential Canadian University graduates who truly want to lead and grow their own startup. Ventures with a single founder, or teams of up to 5 founders, are applicable.
- One must be motivated to be a founder of your own company and committed to do what is required in the pursuit of attaining a profitable fit between your startup’s innovations and the market.
- Your startup must propose to develop an innovative product in Canada with potential to sell both domestically and internationally.
- Canada’s Startup Visa Program targets immigrant entrepreneurs with the skills and potential to build businesses in Canada that:
- Are innovative
- Have potential to create jobs for Canadians
- Have potential to compete on a global scale
- Incubation: 12 months. Applicants may participate in Incubation from anywhere in Canada. Empowered Startups has developed and implemented the state-of-the-art digital incubation mentorship platform on which all entrepreneurs will learn and progress.
- Processing Time: Immigration Refugee, Citizenship Canada (IRCC) attempts to issue immigration decisions in the Startup Visa Program in less than six months. A work permit is available should the entrepreneur need to launch quickly – work permits are generally approved in less than 30 days.