Canada's Immigration Plan 2023-2025: Targets for New Permanent Residents

Canada’s Immigration Plan 2023-2025: Targets for New Permanent Residents

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is happy to share information about the Canadian Government’s Immigration Levels Plan for the years 2023 to 2025. The plan is to admit 465,000 new permanent residents in 2023, with this number increasing to 485,000 in 2024, and reaching 500,000 by 2025. Data Source:

Immigrant Category	2023 Target	2023 Low Range	2023 High Range	2024 Target	2024 Low Range	2024 High Range	2025 Target	2025 Low Range	2025 High Range
Overall Planned Permanent Resident Admissions	465,000	410,000	505,000	485,000	430,000	542,500	500,000	442,500	550,000
Economic
Federal High Skilled	82,880	67,750	88,000	109,020	89,500	115,750	114,000	93,500	121,000
Federal Economic Public Policies	25,000	19,500	32,750	–	–	–	–	–	–
Federal Business	3,500	2,350	4,000	5,000	3,500	7,000	6,000	4,000	8,000
Economic Pilots	8,500	4,650	10,800	12,125	6,750	16,125	14,750	9,000	19,750
Atlantic Immigration Program	8,500	3,000	8,800	11,500	6,000	12,500	14,500	8,500	16,500
Provincial Nominee Program	105,500	91,000	110,000	110,000	105,500	120,000	117,500	112,000	129,250
Quebec Skilled Workers and Business	See Quebec plan	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Total Economic	266,210	233,000	277,250	281,135	250,000	305,000	301,250	265,000	326,000
Family
Spouses, Partners and Children	78,000	72,000	84,000	80,000	75,000	86,000	82,000	77,000	88,000
Parents and Grandparents	28,500	25,000	38,000	34,000	29,000	45,000	36,000	30,750	48,000
Total Family	106,500	100,000	118,000	114,000	105,000	130,000	118,000	107,000	135,000
Refugees and Protected Persons
Protected Persons in Canada and Dependents Abroad	25,000	22,000	35,000	27,000	24,000	38,000	29,000	26,000	35,000
Resettled Refugees – Government-Assisted	23,550	18,500	30,000	21,115	16,750	26,000	15,250	12,000	17,000
Resettled Refugees – Privately Sponsored	27,505	20,000	29,000	27,750	22,000	29,500	28,250	23,000	30,000
Resettled Refugees – Blended Visa Office-Referred	250	–	400	250	–	400	250	–	400
Total Refugees and Protected Persons	76,305	66,000	93,000	76,115	66,000	93,000	72,750	64,000	80,000
Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other	15,985	11,000	16,750	13,750	9,000	14,500	8,000	6,500	9,000

The Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, and Canadian Experience Class are all included in the immigration categories.

The temporary public policies that allow some temporary residents to become permanent residents are expected to conclude by the end of 2023. (Read Policy Here)

The Start-up Visa Program and the Self-employed Persons Program are part of the immigration categories for business individuals.

Once the Municipal Nominee Program is launched, it will be included in the admissions category.

The Home Child-Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot are programs for caregivers, which also process applications from legacy caregiver pilots and interim pathways. Quebec will receive some immigrants under these programs.

Quebec selects its own immigrants, except for family class and protected persons, under the Canada-Quebec Accord.

The category for refugees includes a stream for human rights defenders in need of protection, such as women, journalists, and LGBTQ2 individuals.

Canada’s efforts to assist people from Afghanistan are included in the admissions for refugees and protected persons.

This category includes people admitted for humanitarian and compassionate reasons, public policy reasons, and those in the permit holder class, as well as some individuals affected by the situation in Afghanistan.

The targets and ranges for 2024 and 2025 are provisional and will be confirmed or adjusted by November 1 of each year.

The specific program and category ranges do not add up to the total overall ranges.

The Canadian government aims to increase Francophone immigration to reach 4.4% of French-speaking immigrants outside Quebec by 2023. The necessary admissions to meet this target will be adjusted once Quebec announces its immigration levels for 2023.