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- The government is carefully reviewing permanent residence levels, with consideration being given to pause or reduce them. These adjustments will ensure that immigration continues to support economic growth while addressing the challenges of housing and infrastructure.
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Aug 26, 2024 · Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the federal government is 'looking at a number of options' to re-evaluate permanent resident levels in Canada and says any upcoming changes will not be ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Furthermore, as of last year, IRCC froze immigration levels of permanent residents to 2025 targets—maintaining the same levels through to 2026. Immigration levels for 2025 and 2026 are nominal targets, which may be adjusted to reflect Canada's immigration needs.
Oct 11, 2024 · The Immigration Levels Plan 2024-2026 set a target of welcoming 500,000 permanent residents to Canada in 2025 and maintaining this target in 2026. Permanent residents can be admitted through economic immigration, family class sponsorship, refugee and protected persons, and humanitarian lines of business. Recently, Minister Miller has said that ...
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November 1, 2023 – Ottawa – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is pleased to release details on the Government of Canada’s Immigration Levels Plan for 2024-2026. Following the trajectory of the 2023-2025 Plan, Canada aims to welcome 485,000 new permanent residents in 2024, 500,000 in 2025 and plateau at 500,000 in 2026. This plan prioritizes economic growth, and supports family reunification, while responding to humanitarian crises and recognizing the rapid growth in immigration in recent years. Building on the achievement of a 4.4% target of French-speaking permanent residents outside Quebec in 2022, the Plan includes new annual and progressively increasing French-speaking permanent resident targets outside Quebec: 6% in 2024, 7% in 2025 and 8% in 2026.
Immigrants have an important role to play in the labour market and growing our economy now and into the future, helping to ensure Canada has the skills needed to meet key goals such as supporting sustainability initiatives to transition to a green (net-zero) and digital economy, and so that labour force gaps in critical sectors (e.g. health, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), trades, transportation and agriculture) are not a barrier to the success and expansion of Canadian businesses. For the Family Class, having family support is important for newcomers’ well-being and social adaptation, and it also provides an economic benefit. Spouses and partners often join the workforce and help supplement household income, and parents and grandparents often provide childcare, enabling their sponsors to enter or remain in the workforce. Canada has a strong and proud tradition of offering protection to those in need and the Government’s dedication to fulfilling humanitarian commitments continues. Welcoming newcomers is not just about the admissions targets set, but must also take into account supports and services required by newcomers and Canadians alike, including housing and healthcare. Coordination, collaboration, communication and partnerships are instrumental to welcoming newcomers, and ensuring that appropriate supports are in place to help them achieve positive outcomes. In line with this, to inform this plan, IRCC has undertaken early efforts to establish a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to admissions planning in order to promote integrated planning and coordination across levels of government and with partners and stakeholders.
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The overall French-speaking permanent resident admissions outside Quebec indicated here represent the number of admissions required to meet the 6% target in 2024, 7% target in 2025, and 8% target in 2026 that have been set. These admissions are not in addition to overall planned permanent resident admissions. These targets are for admissions outside Quebec and are therefore calculated based on how many admissions within the federal levels plan would be necessary to meet the targets, based on the overall ranges for admissions outside of Quebec. Once Quebec tables its 2024 immigration levels plan, these numbers may require updating.
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Includes the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, and Canadian Experience Class.
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Sep 22, 2023 · The 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan, tabled in Parliament on November 1, 2022, projects continued growth in permanent resident admissions with targets of 465,000 in 2023; 485,000 in 2024; and 500,000 in 2025.
Aug 31, 2024 · Furthermore, last year saw IRCC freezing permanent resident immigration levels at 2025 targets—maintaining consistent numbers through 2026. These targets, currently set at 500,000 for each year, are subject to adjustment based on Canada’s evolving immigration needs.
We’re maintaining our target of welcoming 485,000 permanent residents in 2024. Pending Cabinet’s approval, we’ll complete the final step to reach 500,000 in 2025 and in 2026, we’ll stabilize permanent resident levels. This will allow new permanent residents to better integrate into our communities.
