Canada 2023 – 2025 Immigration Levels Plan
Today, Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, released Canada’s 2023–2025 Immigration Levels Plan. The plan embraces immigration as a strategy to help businesses find workers and to attract the skills required in key sectors—including health care, skilled trades, manufacturing, and technology.
The targets in the new levels plan is to welcome 465,000 new immigrants in 2023, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025.
Highlights of the levels plan include:
• a long-term focus on economic growth, with just over 60% of admissions in the economic class by 2025
• using new features in the Express Entry system to welcome newcomers with the required skills and qualifications in sectors facing acute labour shortages such as, health care, manufacturing,
• trades and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• increases in regional programs to address targeted local labour market needs, through the Provincial Nominee Program, the Atlantic Immigration Program, and the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot
• reuniting more families faster
• ensuring that at least 4.4% of new permanent residents outside Quebec are Francophone
• support for global crises by providing a safe haven to those facing persecution, including by expanding the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot
The Express Entry targets are:
• 82,880 in 2023
• 109,020 in 2024
• 114,000 in 2025
The PNP targets are:
• 105,500 in 2023
• 110,000 in 2024
• 117,500 in 2025
The Parent Grandparent (PGP) targets are:
• 28,500 in 2023
• 34,000 in 2024
• 36,000 in 2025.
Refugee and humanitarian targets are:
• 76,000 in 2023
• 76,000 in 2024
• 72,750 in 2025.
H&C targets are:
• 16,000 in 2023
• 8,000 in 2025.
