Permanent resident program

Instructions for processing applications submitted under economic classes, for which applicants are selected on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada

• Federal skilled workers
• Quebec skilled workers
• Provincial nominees
• Entrepreneurs and self-employed persons
• Canadian experience class
• Federal skilled trades class
• Investors
• Start-up business class
• Home Child-Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot
• Caring for children and caring for people with high medical needs classes
• Interim Pathway for Caregivers
• Live-in Caregiver Program
• Immigrant Investor Venture Capital class
• Atlantic Immigration Pilot Programs (closed on March 5, 2022)
• Atlantic Immigration Program
• Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program
• Agri-Food Pilot Program
• Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway
• Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot

Instructions for processing permanent residence applications submitted under family-related and humanitarian classes, for which applicants are selected on the basis of family-reunification, social, and humanitarian objectives

• Members of the family class
• Adoptions
• Spouse or common-law partner in Canada class
• Humanitarian and compassionate consideration
• Permanent residence pathways for Hong Kong residents
• Temporary public policy to further facilitate access to permanent resident status for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
• Pathway to permanent residence: In-Canada families of Canadian victims of recent air disasters
• Pathway to permanent residence: Outside-of-Canada families of Canadian victims of air disasters
• Health care workers permanent residence pathway: COVID-19 program delivery
• Protected persons
• Temporary resident permit holders
• Overseas processing of family members of in-Canada applicants for permanent residence

The permanent resident card (PR card) is the official proof of permanent resident status in Canada. A valid PR card or permanent resident travel document (PRTD) is required to travel to Canada by commercial carrier (for example, airplane, bus, train or boat). Permanent residents must comply with the residency obligation (as per section 28 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act) to maintain their permanent resident status.

See instructions for processing applications for PR card and PRTD, status determinations, loss of PR status and the appeal process, and voluntary renunciation of PR status.