Canada aims to welcome over the next three years Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025. Canada will aim to welcome 465,000 new immigrants in 2023. The target will rise to 485,000 new immigrants in 2024. It will further rise to 500,000 new immigrants 2025.
Express Entry and PNP targets will rise:
The majority of new permanent residents immigrate through economic class programs such as those within the Express Entry system or through Provincial Nomination Programs (PNPs).
The targets for Express Entry landings (principal applicants, spouses, and dependents) will rise as follows:
2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
82,880 | 109,020 | 114,000 |
The PNP will remain Canada’s leading admissions program for economic class immigrants and targets will also increase to:
2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
105,500 | 110,000 | 117,500 |
Higher PGP admissions:
Canada will continue to look to welcome some 80,000 new immigrants per year under the Spouses, Partners and Children program.
Targets for the Parents and Grandparents Program will rise to 28,500 in 2023, followed by 34,000 in 2024, and 36,000 in 2025.
Refugee and humanitarian class targets to decline
The overall refugee class target will be just over 76,000 new landings in each of 2023 and 2024, before dipping to 72,750 in 2025.
The same goes for the humanitarian class target which is declining from nearly 16,000 in 2023 to 8,000 in 2025.
Canada has one of the world’s oldest populations. Approximately nine million people, or nearly a quarter of Canada’s population, will reach retirement age by 2030. This will create an urgent shortage of workers throughout all sectors of the economy.
The government must announce the Immigration Levels Plan each year by November 1 as per the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), which is Canada’s main immigration law. However, the 2022-2024 immigration levels plan was the second announced in 2022, the first occurred in February after the most recent federal election on September 20, 2021, caused the 2021 announcement to be delayed.
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