Canada set to announce the latest Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025

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Canada set to announce the latest Immigration
Levels Plan 2023-2025.
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The Canadian government is expected to announce
the latest Immigration Levels Plan by November 1,
2022.

• Each year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
  Canada (IRCC) publishes an immigration level plan
  as a guide to how many immigrants are allowed to
  come to Canada each year. Includes immigration
  breakdowns for economy, family and humanitarian
  class plans for the next three years. This year,
  forecasts for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are shown.
• Under Canada's primary immigration law, the
  Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA),
  the government must issue this proclamation by
  November 1 each year. This is the second
  immigration level plan announced in 2022, first
  announced in February after the latest federal
  election on September 20, 2021.

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Why are there two announcements this year?

• The plans for 2022-2024 were not announced until
  February 2022, rather than the normally planned
  November 1, 2021.
• After the election, parliament will not reopen
  until November 22, 2021, after which it will
  remain open for only 19 days before the holiday.
  In this case, IRPA requires plans to be announced
  within 30 days of parliament's resumption. In
  this case, Parliament resumes in mid-January
  2022.
• Now that Parliament is in full swing, the
  government will proceed with releasing the newest
  Immigration Levels Plan on its regular schedule.

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The current Immigration Levels Plan

• Under the 2022-2024 Immigration Levels Plan,
  Canada aims to welcome 431,645 new permanent
  residents in all immigration categories in 2022.
• As of 2022, Canada has welcomed more than 300,000
  new permanent residents. Most of them are from
  the economy class program. The economic class
  immigration target for 2022 is 241,850, or about
  60 of the total immigration. The 2022 plan also
  covers 105,000 family migrants and 8,250 refugee
  and humanitarian categories.
• All of these targets are subject to change once
  the new 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan is
  released and will no longer be used as a
  benchmark for IRCC's immigration targets. Under
  the 2022-2024 Immigration Levels Plan, Canada
  aims to welcome 431,645 new permanent residents
  in all immigration categories in 2022.
• As of 2022, Canada has welcomed more than 300,000
  new permanent residents. Most of them are from
  the economy class program. The economic class
  immigration target for 2022 is 241,850, or about
  60 of the total immigration. The 2022 plan also
  covers 105,000 family migrants and 8,250 refugee
  and humanitarian categories.

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What to expect?

• Typically, the Immigration Levels Plan contains
  new increases, and are currently at their highest
  levels ever. For example, less than 10 years ago
  the total target for 2016 was 250,000 immigrants.
  In 2021, IRCC broke the record for the largest
  number of permanent residents ever, totaling over
  405,000 even during uncertainty brought by the
  pandemic
• The current overall target for 2023 is 447,055,
  rising slightly to 451,000 by 2024.
• IRCC will work with various other government
  departments and stakeholders to develop a
  balanced immigration level plan to allocate
  permanent resident places in each subsequent
  course or program.
• Immigration Minister Sean Fraser told CIC News in
  June that he would consult with states to better
  understand their labour market needs. ). They
  believe it is more appropriate to target skilled
  immigrants needed to strengthen the workforce and
  fill gaps in Canada's workforce.

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• The minister also said he could foresee a target
  of up to 500,000 new permanent residents a year
  for the next few years, but he did not specify
  when.
• "Look, I didn't put it in my watch," he said. "I
  think we're going to get there. We're adding more
  than 1 percent of the population through our
  existing pathways. That trajectory will continue.
  I don't know what year, it's going to depend on
  the needs of the community."
• Based on data from IRCC, as of August 31, there
  are 513, 923 applications for permanent residency
  waiting to be processed. IRCC recently announced
  that it was working to improve client services
  and speed up processing time by hiring over 1,000
  new employees, moving to a 100 digital
  application process, and overall making
  investments to modernize the aging technology
  that the department relies on

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Why is Canada welcoming more immigrants

• The Immigrant Levels Plan is developed by IRCC in
  consultation with various government departments
  to support IRCC's mission of welcoming and
  assisting immigrants in economic development,
  family reunification, and humanitarian
  assistance. I'm.
• Newcomers are especially important to the
  Canadian economy because they contribute through
  work and paying income tax. For example, these
  taxes are designed to support infrastructure,
  healthcare, education, pensions, and more.
  Canada's population is aging, with baby boomers
  born between 1946 and the early 1960s reaching
  the retirement age of 65. More immigrants help
  Canada maintain a high standard of living.

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