MyCreds™ Announces Partnership with BorderPass to Support International Student Immigration

Transparency, affordability and legal compliance

MyCreds™, the leading Canadian digital credentialing platform for official academic documents, announces an expansion of its partner network with the inclusion of BorderPass, an expert-led innovator in management and compliance of international student immigration. This significant partnership highlights the shared BorderPass and MyCreds commitment to transparency, affordability and legal compliance for international students and designated learning institutions (DLIs) through a trusted system for document verification across the entire immigration journey from study permit application through to permanent residency.

Ensure comprehensive assistance and monitoring of learners’ progress as they move through IRCC processes

Through the integrated connection to MyCreds™, international learners using BorderPass can now seamlessly access, share and securely manage their academic and immigration documents including Letters of Acceptance, Provincial Attestation Letters, transcripts and more—directly on the BorderPass platform. Learners can also monitor and manage their progress towards meeting important entry requirements set by the Canadian government, supported by legal advice on regulations they must follow to study, stay and work in Canada. MyCreds™ schools can, in turn, ensure comprehensive assistance and monitoring of learners’ progress as they move through IRCC processes, ensuring they are delivering quality support for learners.

Medicine Hat College

Peace of mind for students, colleges, universities, and government agencies.

Documents issued through MyCreds™ are tamper-evident and cryptographically signed, and immigration applications and documents submitted via BorderPass are reviewed and vetted by in-house Canadian lawyers, thus ensuring their authenticity. The partnership among MyCreds™ and BorderPass serves to ensure the integrity of documents while providing peace of mind to all stakeholders: students, colleges, universities and government agencies.

Together, BorderPass and MyCreds™ are reshaping the ecosystem of international education by providing a secure chain of trust and a student-centric approach to both document verification and immigration support. This partnership ensures enhanced efficiency and reliability throughout the immigration journey for both institutions and students.

Centennial College students

Quotes

MyCreds™

“Two hallmark considerations drive the MyCreds™ approach to establishing partnerships that benefit learners and our community: ensuring quality and mitigating document fraud. Our not-for-profit network provides direct connections to the colleges and universities so that they can deliver official documents directly to governments and employers with learner permission intact. With the BorderPass partnership and connection, learners and schools will be supported with an end-to-end support model that ensures the right document protections and legal expertise are delivered at the right moments to meet IRCC rules for learners coming to study and work in Canada.”

– Jodi Tavares, Executive Director, MyCreds^TM

BorderPass

“By providing a software platform that enables document verification, and ongoing immigration management, BorderPass enhances international admissions and conversion rates for DLI’s while ensuring compliance, best practices and the protection of international students as they pursue world class studies in Canada.”

–Sally Daub, Co-Founder, BorderPass

Centennial College

“Centennial is proud of its partnerships with BorderPass and MyCreds. With these organizations and the tremendous work already underway at Centennial, our comprehensive support for international learners is transforming how we deliver service. We can now further elevate support for learners as they journey to Canada, learn with Centennial, and as graduating students entering the workforce, all in alignment with the new IRCC policies and processes.”

– Charmaine Hack, Vice President, Strategic Enrolment Management – Global Strategy, College Enrolment and Marketing.

About BorderPass

BorderPass was founded by legal and tech experts in 2020 with a mission to improve the immigration management and compliance process for DLIs and international students by providing a software platform focused on student success and employment outcomes. BorderPass provides international students with access to Canadian lawyers, compliance with IRCC, and trustworthy, ongoing advice/tools on future employment and permanent residency goals. BorderPass also supports esteemed Colleges and Universities to remain compliant with Government mandates and standards of practice, through accurate data and visibility into the status of their international student body. For more information, visit borderpass.ca.

About MyCreds™

MyCreds™ is a national, shared service and platform that provides students and graduates access to a secure, online, password protected learner credential wallet. This virtual wallet allows them to view and share their verified and official transcripts, credentials, and academic documents in a digitized format on a 24/7 basis – anytime, anywhere. It also enables sharing between organizations with the learner’s permission. Secure, cryptographically signed documents can be sent conveniently and require no further verification. MyCreds™ is the first and only national bilingual system of its kind in Canada.

About ARUCC

The Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) owns MyCreds™. ARUCC provides leadership in the post-secondary education field and service to its member institutions nationally and internationally, helping foster the advancement of registrarial practices and learner focused service delivery in Canada.

Media

Media Release.pdf

Media Contacts

Michael Pietrocarlo, Director Marketing, BorderPass E: michael@borderpass.ca

Joanne Duklas, Executive Lead, ARUCC MyCreds™ National Network, info@aruccnationalnetwork.ca

Photo with permission from Centennial. Morningside Campus, Exterior