Here's why Indian students are coming to B.C. — and Canada — by the thousands | CBC News

Hundreds of thousands of Indian students are choosing to call B.C. and Canada home, leading to a sharp rise in new student visa applications since 2015.

Karan Singh says his parents decided to send their son to Canada because they thought he'd get into fights at home.

The 20-year-old, who studies criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C., hails from the tiny village of Bakipur in Haryana state, in northern India.turbulent political environment"There are not a lot of opportunities available to the youth [if] we compare to Canada," Singh said. "The political situation in Haryana at the moment is not very well.

Singh is among hundreds of thousands of Indian students who are choosing to call B.C. and Canada home, leading to a sharp rise in new student visa applications since 2015. While Singh cites personal safety as the main reason for coming here in December 2021, experts say there are specific circumstances that have triggered a sharp influx of students from India recently.

Karan Singh, 20, is from Haryana state in India. He's among hundreds of thousands of Indian international students in Canada, part of a trend that has been going on since 2015.

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