CIMM – Immigration Levels Plan for 2024-2026 – November 07, 2023
Key Facts and Figures
- The 2024-2026 Immigration Levels Plan, tabled in Parliament on November 1, 2023, projects stabilized levels in permanent resident admissions with targets of 485,000 in 2024; 500,000 in 2025; and 500,000 in 2026.
- In 2022, Canada welcomed more than 437,000 new permanent residents, and is on track to meet the target of 465,000 for 2023.
Key Messages
- Canada will continue welcoming newcomers who bring the skills our economy needs. The plan focuses on attracting skilled workers who will contribute to Canada’s economy, while recognizing the importance of family reunification and helping the world’s most vulnerable populations through refugee resettlement.
- This plan upholds the Government’s commitment to bring in 500,000 newcomers by 2025 to help ensure Canada’s economic prosperity. It also allows Canada to maintain its humanitarian tradition while stabilizing overall growth to support positive outcomes for newcomers and those already in Canada.
Responsive
- The multi-year levels plan is developed in consultation with provinces and territories, including Quebec. Under the Canada-Québec Accord, Quebec has full responsibility for the selection of immigrants destined to the province. My Department also consults with stakeholder organizations, and the public.
- While public support for immigration in Canada has remained relatively stable and strong for many years, it can decline quickly if the perception of a well-managed migration system with positive outcomes is lost. Canadians are still likely to see immigration as having a positive effect on economic growth and the availability of labour, however they are also increasingly seeing it as having a negative impact on access to healthcare and the availability of affordable housing, signaling the need to stabilize levels.
Supplementary Information
- Over half of all admissions are dedicated to the economic class, reaching over 60% in 2025. Family class will reach 118,000 admissions by 2025 and then stabilize. Refugees and Protected Persons and Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other admissions will fall slightly before stabilizing, in part due to achieving the commitment to bring 40,000 vulnerable Afghans by 2024.
- Media and the public are currently voicing concerns about the immigration system and linking international student rates and temporary resident intake in particular to housing and other absorptive capacity issues; however, the business community generally advocates for increased economic immigration. Canadians are more likely to see immigration as having a positive effect on the availability of labour and economic growth, but a negative impact on healthcare, and especially on the availability of housing.
2024-2026 Immigration Levels Plan
| Immigrant Category | 2024 | 2025Footnote 11 | 2026Footnote 11 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Low RangeFootnote 12 | High RangeFootnote 12 | Target | Low RangeFootnote 12 | High RangeFootnote 12 | Target | Low RangeFootnote 12 | High RangeFootnote 12 | ||
| Overall Planned Permanent Resident AdmissionsFootnote 1 | 485,000 | 430,000 | 532,500 | 500,000 | 442,500 | 550,000 | 500,000 | 442,500 | 550,000 | |
| Overall French-speaking Permanent Resident Admissions outside QuebecFootnote 1 | 26,100 | - | - | 31,500 | - | - | 36,000 | - | - | |
| Economic | Federal High SkilledFootnote 2 | 110,770 | 90,000 | 116,000 | 117,500 | 96,500 | 124,000 | 117,500 | 96,500 | 124,000 |
| Federal Economic Public PolicieseFootnote 3 | - | 0 | 3,000 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Federal BusinessFootnote 4 | 5,000 | 3,500 | 7,000 | 6,000 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 6,000 | 4,000 | 8,000 | |
| Economic Pilots:Footnote 5 Caregivers;Footnote 6 Agri-Food Pilot; Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot; Economic Mobility Pathways Project |
10,875 | 6,500 | 14,500 | 14,750 | 9,000 | 19,750 | 13,750 | 9,000 | 19,750 | |
| Atlantic Immigration Program | 6,500 | 4,000 | 9,000 | 8,500 | 5,000 | 13,000 | 8,500 | 5,000 | 13,000 | |
| Provincial Nominee Program | 110,000 | 105,500 | 117,000 | 120,000 | 113,000 | 130,000 | 120,000 | 113,000 | 130,000 | |
| Quebec Skilled Workers and BusinessFootnote 7 | To be determinedFootnote 7 | To be determinedFootnote 7 | To be determinedFootnote 7 | |||||||
| Total Economic | 281,135 | 250,000 | 305,000 | 301,250 | 265,000 | 326,000 | 301,250 | 265,000 | 326,000 | |
| Family | Spouses, Partners and Children | 82,000 | 77,000 | 88,000 | 84,000 | 79,000 | 90,000 | 84,000 | 79,000 | 90,000 |
| Parents and Grandparents | 32,000 | 27,000 | 36,000 | 34,000 | 29,000 | 42,000 | 34,000 | 29,000 | 42,000 | |
| Total Family | 114,000 | 105,000 | 130,000 | 118,000 | 107,000 | 135,000 | 118,000 | 107,000 | 135,000 | |
| Refugees and Protected Persons | Protected Persons in Canada and Dependents Abroad | 27,000 | 24,000 | 38,000 | 29,000 | 26,000 | 40,000 | 29,000 | 26,000 | 40,000 |
| Resettled Refugees – Government AssistedFootnote 8 | 21,115 | 16,750 | 26,000 | 15,250 | 12,000 | 17,000 | 15,250 | 12,000 | 17,000 | |
| Resettled Refugees – Privately Sponsored | 27,750 | 20,000 | 31,000 | 28,250 | 23,000 | 32,000 | 28,250 | 23,000 | 32,000 | |
| Resettled Refugees – Blended Visa Office-Referred | 250 | - | 400 | 250 | - | 400 | 250 | - | 400 | |
| Total RefugeesFootnote 9 and Protected Persons | 76,115 | 66,000 | 93,000 | 72,750 | 64,000 | 80,000 | 72,750 | 64,000 | 80,000 | |
| Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other | Total Humanitarian & Compassionate and OtherFootnote 10 | 13,750 | 9,000 | 17,500 | 8,000 | 6,500 | 12,000 | 8,000 | 6,500 | 12,000 |
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