Canada : Addressing immigration backlogs to help Canadian businesses grow
The Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Sean Fraser, spoke about the ongoing work to strengthen Canada’s immigration system and reduce application backlogs, with a focus on addressing labour shortages, improving client experience, and reuniting families. As part of this plan, he announced that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will have hired up to 1,250 new employees by the end of the fall to increase our processing capacity and tackle the backlogs in the short term.
IRCC target for 2022 is to welcome 431,000 permanent residents and has already welcomed approximately 275,000 admissions from January 1 to July 31. IRCC issued over 349,000 new work permits from January 1 to July 31, compared to around112,000 issued in 2021. For International Students almost 360,000 study permits were finalized between January 1 and July 31, 2022, compared to about 306,000 finalized in the same period in 2021.
