New Canada Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025

Last Updated On 21 February 2023, 2:04 PM EST (Toronto Time)

IRCC reveals new Canada Immigration Levels Plan for 2023 – 2025 today. This is an important announcement for Canada aspirants looking forward to make their home in the country.

Previously, Canada announced record immigration targets for 2022 – 2024.

3-year Immigration levels plan are revised and announced every year on November 1 as dictated by IRPA (Immigration and Refugee Protection Act).

The most important numbers of target for immigration categories is for 2023. Targets for 2024 and 2025 will still be revised in November 2023.

Category	2023	2023	2023	2024	2024	2024	2025	2025	2025
	Target	Low Range	High Range	Target	Low Range	High Range	Target	Low Range	High Range
Overall Planned Permanent Resident Admissions	465,000	410,000	505,000	485,000	430,000	542,500	500,000	442,500	550,000
Federal High Skilled	82,880	67,750	88,000	109,020	89,500	115,750	114,000	93,500	121,000
Federal Economic Public Policies	25,000	19,500	32,750	–	–	–	–	–	–
Federal Business	3,500	2,350	4,000	5,000	3,500	7,000	6,000	4,000	8,000
Economic Pilots:  Caregivers; Agri-Food Pilot; Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot; Economic Mobility Pathways Project	8,500	4,650	10,800	12,125	6,750	16,125	14,750	9,000	19,750
Atlantic Immigration Program	8,500	3,000	8,800	11,500	6,000	12,500	14,500	8,500	16,500
Provincial Nominee Program	105,500	91,000	110,000	110,000	105,500	120,000	117,500	112,000	129,250
Quebec Skilled Workers and Business	See the Quebec immigration plan	See the Quebec immigration plan	See the Quebec immigration plan	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined	To be determined
Total Economic	266,210	233,000	277,250	281,135	250,000	305,000	301,250	265,000	326,000
Spouses, Partners and Children	78,000	72,000	84,000	80,000	75,000	86,000	82,000	77,000	88,000
Parents and Grandparents	28,500	25,000	38,000	34,000	29,000	45,000	36,000	30,750	48,000
Total Family	106,500	100,000	118,000	114,000	105,000	130,000	118,000	107,000	135,000
Protected Persons in Canada and Dependents Abroad	25,000	22,000	35,000	27,000	24,000	38,000	29,000	26,000	35,000
Resettled Refugees – Government-Assisted	23,550	18,500	30,000	21,115	16,750	26,000	15,250	12,000	17,000
Resettled Refugees – Privately Sponsored	27,505	20,000	29,000	27,750	22,000	29,500	28,250	23,000	30,000
Resettled Refugees – Blended Visa Office-Referred	250	–	400	250	–	400	250	–	400
Total Refugees and Protected Persons	76,305	66,000	93,000	76,115	66,000	93,000	72,750	64,000	80,000
Total Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other	15,985	11,000	16,750	13,750	9,000	14,500	8,000	6,500	9,000

Time Stamp	Update/Comment
9:25 am EST (Toronto time)	Expected release time could be between 10:30-11:00 am EST
11:00 am EST (Toronto time)	Immigration Minister Sean Fraser will hold press conference in North York, Ontario, to discuss the new immigration levels plan for 2023-2025 and efforts to address labour market shortages. He is joined by Liberal MPs Julie Dzerowicz (Davenport) and Peter Fonseca (Mississauga East–Cooksville) after releasing immigration levels plan for 2023 – 2025.
11:14 am EST (Toronto time)	New Immigration Targets 2023 – 465,000 permanent residents 2024 – 485,000 permanent residents 2025 – 500,000 permanent residents

New Immigration Levels plan 2023-2025 highlights include

• a long-term focus on economic growth, with slightly over 60% of economic admissions by 2025
• using new Express Entry capabilities to welcome immigrants with the requisite skills and certifications in sectors suffering severe labour shortages such as health care, manufacturing, building trades, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• increases in regional programmes to address targeted local labour market needs, including 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, and
• providing a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, including by expanding the Economic Mobility Pathways.

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Important Things To Watch Out In New Canada Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025

New immigration levels plan will be important and unique because of the following 6 reasons:

1. This announcement is coming at the time where IRCC has record applications under processing inventory awaiting decision. So, it depends upon IRCC’s decision making on how quickly they can process the applications and decide what next year target could be. As of September 30, there were 614,600 applications under processing: 325,700 in backlog and 288,900 within service standards.
2. Canada is already on track to easily meet the target for 2022 despite a pile of backlog. So, it is expected for the targets could increase for next 3 years. Canada already welcomed record immigrants in 2021 despite pandemic slowdown and backlog.
3. Will there be an allocation for provisions under motion 44? If yes, then there could be new announcements after today’s plan in upcoming months.
4. It will be interesting to watch PNP targets because provinces have been requesting to increase PNP allocation.
5. Will there be increased target for family sponsorship (spousal sponsorship & PGP (Parents and Grandparents)?

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Canada 2023 to 2025 immigration plan?

According to the new Immigration Levels Plan for 2023-2025, Canada has set a target of bringing 465,000 new permanent residents through all immigration classes in 2022. This objective will gradually expand until it reaches 500,000 new permanent residents in 2025.