The Immigration Levels Plan 2024–2026 for Canada has been made public.
The amount of immigration into Canada will not vary from its present goals. The goal set by the nation is to admit 485,000 additional immigrants by 2024. The goal for Canada in 2025 and 2026 is to accept 500,000 new immigrants annually.
These goals align with the Immigration Levels Plan 2023–2025 announcements. Along with adjustments to the numbers of immigrants to be accepted under each class and program between 2024 and 2026, the new information that was made public today includes the 2026 objective.
Immigration objectives broken down by class
Canada plans to accept around 281,135 immigrants under the economic class in 2024, which is 58% of the yearly goal. This represents 60% of the yearly objective, or 301,250 immigrants, by 2026.
By 2024, 114,000 immigrants, or 24% of all admissions, will be targeted as part of the family class. By 2026, this figure is expected to increase to 118,000 immigrants, or 24% of all admits.
The goal for humanitarian admissions is to admit 89,865 immigrants by 2024, or around 19% of total admissions. These sums cover refugees, those under protection, and those accepted for compassionate, humanitarian, or other reasons. Eighty,832 immigrants, or sixteen percent of admissions, will be the aim by 2026.
Please take note that owing to rounding, numbers may not add up to 100%.
PNP goals and Express Entry will increase.
The goal for Express Entry is to admit 110,700 permanent residents in 2024; in 2025 and 2026, this number will increase to 117,500 immigrants.
The goal of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is to bring in 110,000 immigrants by 2024, with plans to increase that number to 120,000 by 2025 and 120,000 more by 2026.
The goal of the Spousal, Partner, and Children sponsorship is to admit 82,000 people in 2024; in 2025 and 2026, this number will increase to 84,000. In the meanwhile, the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) aims to welcome 32,000 newcomers in 2024, with an additional 34,000 in 2025 and 2026.
The Canadian government wants to keep immigration at a steady pace.
The Canadian government explains why it is sticking to its goal, saying that it has designed the plan to boost economic development while taking into account the strains on housing, healthcare, and infrastructure. It sets out a responsible path for steady and sustainable population expansion.In order to give time for a smooth integration, the government will begin stabilizing the number of permanent residents at 500,000 in 2026. In the meanwhile, labour market expansion in Canada will continue. In order to guarantee that this component of our immigration system is likewise sustainable, the government also intends to act during the course of the upcoming year to adjust the number of admissions for temporary residents.”
Canada’s primary immigration statute, the Immigration and Refugees Protection Act (IRPA), requires the federal government to publish its annual immigration plan by November 1st in years when there are no elections.
The amount of new permanent residents that each of the three immigration classes—economic, family, and humanitarian—will be allowed into Canada over the course of the next three years is determined by the Immigration Levels Plan.
The proposal supports the goals of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), which include bringing families back together, bolstering the country’s economy, and establishing Canada as a safe haven for those escaping persecution or other humanitarian situations.
With 437,000 admissions, Canada broke the record for new immigrants in 2022. 465,000 admissions as permanent residents are the goal for 2023.
Canada is working on a new plan to enhance its immigration laws.
The Canada Immigration Levels Plan 2024-2026 was released a day after the country presented a new plan to enhance its immigration laws. On October 31, Immigration Minister Marc Miller presented the foundations of a new strategy to reform the immigration system while acknowledging flaws in the current framework.
Three main objectives make up the new policy, An Immigration System for Canada’s Future:
- Make the environment more hospitable for visitors
- Match the demands of the labor market with immigration
- Create a thorough and well-coordinated expansion plan.
The goal of IRCC is to provide its clients with a more enjoyable and intuitive experience.
Furthermore, the IRCC wants to improve the alignment between Canada’s labor and skills strategy and immigration laws.
Third, the IRCC wants to create an integrated strategy including all three levels of government in Canada to make sure the nation can provide enough infrastructure, housing, and health care to its expanding immigrant population.
In the late 1980s, immigration to Canada started to rise.
In the late 1980s, Canada’s immigration policy started to take on its current shape. Prior to this, the government often established immigration objectives based on the state of the economy and did not lay as much focus on future immigration planning.
Less than 90,000 immigrants were admitted to Canada in 1984. The federal government, which was then led by the Conservative party, increased immigration objectives to 250,000 new permanent residents over an eight-year period as the 1990s drew near and understood there would soon be a labor shortage.
Following their election in 1993, the Liberal administration carried on raising immigration objectives. In an effort to support the Canadian economy during a recession, it also started to place greater emphasis on accepting immigrants from the economic class and lowering Canada’s family and humanitarian class shares.
After then, until the election of the current Liberal administration in 2015, over 260,000 immigrants were allowed yearly. Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, objectives were increased to 300,000 and then 340,000 under the current federal administration, which is led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Despite epidemic limitations, Canada admitted 405,000 more people as permanent residents in 2021 than ever before.
Due to the country’s current housing scarcity and affordability issue, multiple polls show that Canadians are less enthusiastic about immigration than they were a few years ago.
However, in light of the low birth rate and the inevitable retirement of millions of Canadian workers as they approach 65, the Immigration and Refugee Committee (IRCC) continues to maintain high immigration objectives due to a scarcity of skilled labor. According to the latest current population estimate from Statistics Canada, immigrants are to blame for 98% of Canada’s population increase.
According to the latest recent data on job openings, there were 701,300 open positions in Canada as of July 2023. Even while there are 273,700 fewer unfilled positions now than there were a year ago, this is still a substantial enough number for the IRCC to modify several well-known immigration procedures and programs, such Express Entry.
Earlier this year, IRCC introduced category-based selection rounds of invitations for Express Entry candidates who have work experience in in-demand sectors or the capacity to promote the French language outside of Quebec in order to better target economic immigrants who are best suited to help Canada close the labor force gap.
Today, Quebec also unveiled its immigration strategy.
Plans for immigration levels for 2024 and 2025 were also presented by Quebec today. Within Canada, only Quebec has the authority to determine its own yearly objectives for admitting permanent residents. Their exceptional standing in Canada is the reason for this. It is within Quebec’s power to choose the immigration goals that will contribute to the province’s continued francophone identity. Today, the province declared its intention to aim for 2024 immigration intake of 50,000 and 2025 immigration intake of 50,000 by 2024.