Canada’s 2023 to 2025 Immigration Levels Plan

Canada has announced its 2023-2025 immigration levels plan

Immigrants will arrive over the next three years, and this will help address persistent labor shortages, particularly in the health care, manufacturing and construction sectors. At the same time, the government will continue to invest in processing capacity to ensure that all applications are processed as quickly as possible and to eliminate backlogs.

Canada plans to target 465,000 new immigrants in 2023 and could increase that figure to 505,000.

266,210 will be selected from the Economic Category which includes: 

1) Highly Skilled Federal
2) Federal economic public policies
3) Federal Affairs
4) Economic Pilot Projects (Caregivers, Agribusiness Pilot, Economic Mobility Pathways Project, and Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot)
5) Atlantic Immigration Program
6) Provincial Nominee Program

Canada’s 2023 to 2025 Immigration Levels Plan

2023 2024 2025
Overall Planned Permanent Resident Admissions 465,000 485,000 500,000
               Economic Federal High Skilled 82,880 109,020 114,000
Federal Economic Public Policies 25,000
Federal Business 3,500 5,000 6,000
Economic Pilots: Caregivers; Agri-Food Pilot; Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot; Economic Mobility Pathways Project 8,500 12,125 14,750
Atlantic Immigration Program 8,500 11,500 14,500
Provincial Nominee Program 105,500 110,000 117,500
Quebec Skilled Workers and BusinessFootnote6 See the Quebec immigration plan To be determined To be determined
Total Economic 266,210 281,135 301,250
                Family Spouses, Partners and Children 78,000 80,000 82,000
Parents and Grandparents 28,500 34,000 36,000
Total Family 106,500 114,000 118,000
Refugees and Protected Persons Protected Persons in Canada and Dependents Abroad 25,000 27,000 29,000
Resettled Refugees – Government-AssistedFootnote7 23,550 21,115 15,250
Resettled Refugees – Privately Sponsored 27,505 27,750 28,250
Resettled Refugees – Blended Visa Office-Referred 250 250 250
Total Refugees and Protected Persons 76,305 76,115 72,750
Humanitarian and Other Total Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other 15,985 13,750 8,000

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