On November 1, local time, Canada finally released the "2023-2025 Immigration Level Plan". The plan shows that Canada's goal is to increase 465,000 new immigrants in 2023, and by 2024, 485,000 new immigrants. In 2025, the new immigrant quota will continue to increase to 500,000.
Canada welcomed more than 405,000 immigrants in 2021, a figure that broke the previous historical immigration record and is expected to welcome 432,000 immigrants in 2022.
Canada's immigration goals include developing the economy, reuniting families and providing asylum for refugees who escape from difficulties. The immigration level plan is a guide for Canada to determine annual immigration quotas. Let’s take a look at the quota allocation of different projects.
Fast Track and Provincial Nomination Quota will increase
Data shows that most new permanent residents come to Canada through economic projects, such as fast track projects and provincial nomination plans for each province.
Fast-channel quota is as follows:
2023: 82,880 people
2024: 109,020 people
2025: 114,000 people
Provincial nomination quota will continue to increase:
2023: 105,500 people l3
2024: 110,000 people
2025: 117,500 people
Increase reunion immigration quota
After economic immigration, family reunion immigration is the second largest permanent residence category in Canada, which can help Canadian citizens and permanent residents' spouses, children, parents and grandparents obtain permanent residence .
plan shows that Canada will issue 80,000 places for family reunion immigrants.
In 2023, the immigration quota for parents and grandparents reunion will increase to 28,500, to 34,000 in 2024, and to 36,000 in 2025.
Refugee and humanitarian immigration categories quotas decreased
Canada has always been famous for providing asylum for displaced people. Currently, Canada has a high refugee and humanitarian quotas, including resettlement of 40,000 refugees from Afghanistan , etc. However, in the coming time, Canada will gradually lower the quota of these two types of immigration.
In 2023 and 2014, the quota for refugees in Canada was more than 76,000, respectively, and this quota will drop to below 72,750 in 2025.
The quota for the humanitarian immigration category will also drop from nearly 16,000 in 2023 to 8,000 in 2025.
Canadian immigration development strategy
Canada's current immigration strategy began to take shape in the 1980s. At that time, the government's focus was not long-term, but would set immigration goals based on the economic conditions at that time.
11 In 984, Canada only added less than 90,000 immigrants. Since the 1990s, the Canadian government under the leadership of the Conservative Party realized that solving the labor shortage is imminent. In order to solve this problem, the government has increased the immigration quota to 250,000 within 8 years.
Next The Liberal Party’s immigration strategy is based on these goals. Due to the economic recession and other reasons, the Canadian government began to emphasize more on inviting new immigrants in the economy and reducing quotas for family reunification and humanitarian categories.
Before the Liberal government came to power in 2015, Canada received about 260,000 new immigrants each year, and then gradually increased to 300,000. Before the epidemic began, the immigration quota increased to 340,000.
The outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, Canada closed its borders and implemented a series of travel restrictions, which caused the number of new immigrants to plummet. In 2020, only 184,624 new immigrants came to Canada.
With the increase in vaccination rate, Canada has gradually relaxed its entry policy. In 2021, Canada ushered in 405,000 new immigrants, setting a new record in immigration history. These new immigrants mainly come from Canadian experience immigration and provincial nominated immigrants.
Canada is currently under the problem of severe labor shortage, and the current vacancies of nearly one million jobs have caused Canada to continuously increase immigration quotas.
Canada's low birth rate further exacerbates the problem of labor shortage, and due to slow natural population growth, immigration will soon become the only way for Canada's population and labor force to grow. It is predicted that by 2032, Canada's labor force growth will depend on new immigrants.
In addition to this, Canada also needs new immigrants to maintain taxes, which is a key factor in Canada's provision of high-quality education and welfare.
Canada is one of the most serious countries in the world with aging population. By 2030, about 9 million people, or nearly one-quarter of Canadians, reaching retirement age, which will further exacerbate the problem of labor shortage.
So, in the future, Canada may be in a state of labor shortage, and increasing immigration is one of the important ways to solve the problem. It is good news for immigration applicants who are interested in going to Canada.
However, from the above content, we can see that Canada is more inclined to give applicants who can contribute to Canada's economic development .
In any case, Canada's immigration policy will be further relaxed overall, and the golden age of immigration to Canada is coming again.
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