Ottawa, October 24, 2024-Canada’s New Immigration policy is shaping the country’s future immigration plans, the 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan. Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is announcing its aggressive plan of increasing permanent residents in all categories while concurrently including, for the first time ever, targets in the context of temporary residents in terms of specific international students and temporary foreign workers. It is a well-balanced program that has the significance of sustainable economic development for Canada with support from its communities and diversified cultures.
Key Aspects of Canada’s New Immigration Levels Plan for 2025-2027
IRCC introduced a new plan that describes specific objectives for both the temporary and permanent immigration streams. It is to serve Canadian businesses, foster economic growth, and contribute to the diversity of the regions, especially Francophone communities outside Quebec. Here are the main components of this strategic immigration blueprint.
Temporary Resident Targets: A New Approach to Managed Migration
Adding temporary resident arrival targets to Canada’s New Immigration Levels Plan is a pioneering step for Canada, moving it toward a more holistic immigration strategy. The introduction of these targets will be used to manage the flow of migration, assist sectors experiencing labor shortages, and fulfill the goals of key sectors. Temporary resident arrival targets are as follows:
- 2025: 673,650 new arrivals, including international students and temporary foreign workers.
- 2026: 516,600 new arrivals.
- 2027: 543,600 new arrivals.
The goal is to gradually and steadily reduce the percentage of temporary residents, such that by the end of 2026, temporary residents constitute only 5% of the total population of Canada. This shall be achieved through restrictions on applications for study permits, restricted eligibility for post-graduate work permits, and varying work permits issued to spouses of international students and foreign workers in the IMP as well as TFW Programs.
International students are projected to be the largest source of temporary arrivals by 2026 and 2027, as Canada seeks to support students while achieving sustainable growth.
Permanent Residence Targets: Sustaining Economic and Cultural Development
Canada has also set targets for permanent resident admissions, focused on supporting economic resilience and demographic balance. Annual targets for permanent residents are set at:
- 2025: 395,000 new permanent residents.
- 2026: 380,000 new permanent residents.
- 2027: 365,000 new permanent residents.
This slow decline should help balance community capacity and economic need, focusing on a higher proportion of economic immigrants. Economic admissions will account for nearly 62% of total permanent resident admissions by 2027, focusing on skilled workers in areas like healthcare and skilled trades. Canada’s new immigration strategy, centered on the “in-Canada focus,” would make it easy to transition into permanent residency for international students and temporary workers who are already in Canada. This will meet the need of Canadian businesses and industries for their workforce.
Prioritizing Family Reunification and Refugee Protection
Canada continues to place family reunification at the top of its list, with a steady 22% of its total admissions for family-sponsored immigrants. This helps in the strengthening of communities as well as proper adjustment of newcomers. Another 15% of permanent resident admissions is set aside for refugees and protected persons to fulfill the humanitarian values of the country as well as its long history of providing refuge to distressed ones.
As a measure of the new Levels Plan, in accordance with the 2024 Policy on Francophone Immigration, new targets have been set to grow the French-speaking immigration outside Quebec up to 8.5% by 2025, then 9.5% by 2026, and 10% in 2027. These targets further diversify the language in Canada and add more Francophone presence around the country.
A Sustainable Immigration Approach
The 2025-2027 Levels Plan shows IRCC’s intent to have a well-managed migration system in harmony with community capacity and economic needs. As part of Canada’s New Immigration strategy, IRCC worked with federal agencies, provinces and territories, municipalities, Indigenous Peoples, and other stakeholders to develop this whole-of-society plan, taking a holistic approach to immigration levels in response to the needs of both newcomers and Canadians.
What This Means for Prospective Immigrants and Employers in Canada?
This new plan really opens up opportunities for all those with hopes and aspirations to live in this country as permanent residents themselves, and business is on the lookout for skills needed in Canada. Canada’s New Immigration strategy focuses on the transitions of temporary residents to permanent status, transferring the burden squarely onto those international students and workers already here in the country, which makes life easier for them to take a better footing in life within the country.
This will improve workforce shortages by taking skilled immigrants, who are available in the healthcare sector, technology, and skilled trades, to the critical sectors for the sake of labor demands.
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