KEY HIGHLIGHTS to Immigration for Canada 2022

IRCC FUNDED

  • More than 550 service provider organizations, and provided settlement services to more than 607,800 clients

TEMPORARY IMMIGRATION

  • A total of 4,789,693 travel documents were issued to visitors, students and temporary workers
  • There was a total of 550,187 study permit holders
  • There was a total of 604,382 work permit holders under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, and the International Mobility Program

PERMANENT IMMIGRATION

  • 437,539 permanent residents were welcomed to Canada in 2022
  • 124,970 individuals who had a prior study or work permit transitioned to permanent residence across all streams
  • For the fourth year in a row, Canada was the top resettlement country in the world, welcoming over 46,528 refugees from over 80 countries in 2022

CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP

  • 364,166 permanent residents became Canadian citizens in 2022-23

 

Key Highlights for 2021 IMMIGRATION TO CANADA

IRCC Funded

  • More than 550 service provider organizations, and provided settlement services to more than 428,000 clients.

Temporary Residents

  • A total of 1,467,333 travel documents were issued to visitors, students and temporary foreign workers.
  • There was a total of 445,776 study permit holders.
  • There was a total of 415,817 work permit holders under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and the International Mobility Program.

Permanent Immigration

  • 405,999 residents were welcomed into Canada in 2021.
  • 191,338 individuals transitioned from temporary to permanent residents under various TR to PR pathways.

Canadian Citizenship

  • 221,919 permanent residents became Canadian citizens in 2021-22.

Key Highlights for 2020 IMMIGRATION TO CANADA

 

PERMANENT IMMIGRATION

  • 184,606 permanent residents were welcomed into Canada
  • 906,119 travel documents were issued
  • 51,011 individuals transitioned from temporary to permanent residents
  • 5,756 French-speaking permanent residents were admitted to communities in Canada outside of Quebec

TEMPORARY RESIDENTS

  • There was a total of 256,740 study permit holders
  • There was a total of 326,116 temporary work permit holders under the temporary foreign worker and the international mobility programs

GROWTH

  • Over the past five years, immigration has accounted for over three quarters of Canada’s total population growth, but that figure dropped to 58% in 2020, due to border closures and other impacts of the pandemic.

COVID-19

  • IRCC implemented a temporary public policy to facilitate the granting of permanent residence for certain refugee claimants working in the health-care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • 49,290 individuals were reunited with their close family members

 

 

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