Immigration Canada (IRCC) publishes a new immigration level plan every year as a guideline for Canada's determination of immigration quotas, which includes immigration classifications from the economic, family reunification and humanitarian classes over the next three years.
The immigration level plan to be announced by November 1 this year will include immigration forecasts for 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Under the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), the government usually needs to issue this announcement before November 1 of each year. What is more special is that the upcoming plan will be announced for the second time this year, the first time it was announced in February this year. Why does this happen to
? Since Canada held a general election in September 2021, Parliament did not resume discussions on Canada's immigration level plan in January this year, so the immigration level plan for 2022-2024 was not officially announced until February this year.
2022-2024 Immigration Level Plan
Canada's goal is to bring 431,645 new permanent residents through all immigration categories in 2022. By 2024, this goal will grow steadily, with the total number of new permanent residents reaching 451,000.
In 2022, Canada has welcomed more than 300,000 new immigrants, most of whom are from economic immigrants. Economic immigration mainly includes fast track, provincial nominated immigration, venture capital immigration, and federal pilot projects.
According to the immigration level plan in 2022, Canada will welcome 241,850 permanent economic residents, accounting for about 60% of the total number of immigrants. In addition, Canada is expected to welcome 105,000 family immigrants and 8,250 refugees and humanitarian immigrants this year.
The newly released immigration level plan every year shows that Canada's immigration quota is increasing and is currently at an all-time high. In 2016, the total target of Canadian immigration is 250,000 new immigrants. In 2021, even during the epidemic, Canada has ushered in more than 405,000 new immigrants in a variety of uncertainties.
Canadian Immigration Bureau will cooperate with other government departments and stakeholders to develop an immigration level plan. The plan will balance the allocation of permanent residents in each category and subsequent projects according to the needs of each party.
In June this year, in an interview with the media, Canadian immigration minister Sean Fraser said he would negotiate with the provinces to better understand their labor market needs.
Some provincial immigration ministers criticized the current immigration level plan for not allocating enough places to the Provincial Nomination Program (PNP). They believe that the Provincial Nomination Program can help the province usher in more skilled immigration to increase labor force, thereby solving the problem of labor shortage in various provinces.
Fraser also said that Canada's immigration target is expected to add more than 500,000 new immigrants each year in the next few years. "I think we will eventually achieve this goal. According to the current plan, our population will increase by more than 1%. "
Why does Canada welcome more new immigrants?
New immigrants are particularly important to Canada's economic development because they contribute through labor and income tax payment. For example, these taxes are designed to support Canadian infrastructure construction, health care, education, and pension payments.
In addition, Canada's population aging problem is constantly aggravating. The early baby boomers born in the 1940s to the 1960s were reaching the retirement age of 65. The labor shortage problem is prominent, and the increase in the number of immigrants will help Canada's economic development after the epidemic.
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