In September 2020 I joined a top 5 university in Canada for a graduate program that pays me $25k a year (yeah I know shit money for Canadian but good money if you are from a sketchy place in Eastern Europe). I was told by my supervisor that “there is no point of me coming to Canada now and it is better for me to stay at home and do stuff online for the time being.” I was also told that my tuition which is ~$10k/year will be covered but I will have to pay them back once I reach here. Okay, makes sense right? I come to Canada after some time, I get the lump sum and pay my debts and go on with my life.
I planned to come in Jan 2021 but he told me that “for my personal safety” it is better for me to stay at home for now. He postponed my arrival with various reasons until September 2021. I am finally in Canada ready to start my degree and guess what? Apparently, since I did not have a SIN number all the time they cannot pay me a dime for all the year I spent back home (but they won’t ask me to repay the tuition OMG what a nice man).
I set up a meeting with him to basically ask how fair was that to make me work for free for A WHOLE YEAR and what I received was “you know what, life is unfair!”.
I agree it was my dumbness to not to expect a well established public university to scam me but yeah.
Fuck immigrants anyway.