Canada to welcome 500,000 new immigrants in 2025

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Canada to welcome 500,000 new immigrants in 2025
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The Immigration Levels Plan acts as a guide for
the number of immigrants Canada aims to welcome
over the next three years.
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• Canada has just released its 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.
• Canada broke its all-time immigration record by
  welcoming over 405,000 immigrants in 2021 and is
  looking to welcome nearly 432,000 immigrants this
  year.

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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
• 82,880 in 2023
• 109,020 in 2024
• 114,000 in 2025

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Higher PGP admissions

• IRCC also has a mandate to reunite families.
  After economic class programs, family class
  sponsorship is the second largest permanent
  residence class set out by the Immigration Levels
  Plan. Under family class immigration programs,
  applicants are sponsored for permanent residence
  by a spouse, partner, children, or other family
  member.
• Canada will continue to look to welcome some
  80,000 new immigrants per year under the Spouses,
  Partners and Children program.

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Refugee and humanitarian class targets to decline

• Refugees and humanitarian class immigrants also
  have an allocation under the Immigration Levels
  Plan. Canada has a long-standing reputation of
  extending asylum to displaced persons fleeing
  unsafe situations in their home countries.
• Canada currently has high humanitarian class
  targets due to its ongoing efforts to complete
  several campaigns such as welcoming some 40,000
  refugees from Afghanistan.

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• 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.

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Canadas immigration strategy

• Canadas current immigration strategy began to
  take its current form in the 1980s. At that time,
  the government did not look as far into the
  future and often based immigration targets on the
  economy of the day.
• In 1984, Canada welcomed fewer than 90,000
  immigrants. Leading into the 1990s, the Canadian
  government under the Conservatives recognized the
  impending shortage of labour and increased
  immigration targets to 250,000 new permanent
  residents in the space of eight years.

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• The following Liberal government built on these
  targets but due to an economic recession, also
  began to place more emphasis on inviting
  newcomers more economic class immigrants and
  reducing Canadas family and humanitarian class
  shares.
• Canada welcomed some 260,000 immigrants annually
  until current Liberal government took power in
  2015.  The targets were increased to 300,000,
  followed by 340,000 right before the onset of the
  COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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• The closure of borders and other travel
  restrictions in 2020 made it difficult for IRCC
  to process applications. Still, Canada exceeded
  its 2021 immigration target and broke the record
  for the most permanent residents invited in a
  year, at 405,000. These targets were reached
  through large allocations of spots through
  the Canadian Experience Class and Provincial
  Nomination Programs (PNPs).
• Canada is currently in a unique period where
  there is a labour shortage alongside nearly one
  million job vacancies. Both are driving factors
  in the countrys growing immigration targets.

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• Labour shortages are further impacted by Canadas
  low birth rate of 1.4 children per women, one of
  the lowest globally. Due to the slow natural
  increase in the population (the number of births
  still exceeds the number of deaths each year),
  immigration will soon be the only way that
  Canadas population and labour force will be able
  to grow. Newcomers are also needed to maintain a
  strong tax base, which is a key factor in
  Canadas efforts to provide essential services
  such as education and healthcare.

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• Canada has one of the worlds oldest populations.
  Approximately nine million people, or nearly a
  quarter of Canadas 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 Canadas main immigration
  law. However, the 2022-2024 immigration levels
  plan was the second announced in 2022.

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