An Immigration Levels Plan is posted yearly via way of means of the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). It serves as a manual for what number of immigrants could be authorised to go into Canada yearly. It gives a breakdown of immigration from the subsequent 3 years via way of means of financial elegance, own circle of relatives elegance, and humanitarian elegance programmes. It will show predictions for 2023, 2024 and 2025 this year.
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), that is the predominant immigration statute in Canada, calls for the authorities to inform this via way of means of November 1 of every year. The first Immigration Levels Plan turned into discovered in February following the maximum current federal election on September 20, 2021. This is the second one Immigration Levels Plan to be introduced in 2022.
Canada has set a goal of bringing in 431,645 new everlasting citizens universal via all immigration lessons in 2022, in line with the Immigration Levels Plan for 2022–2024. By 2024, this intention will steadily upward thrust to 451,000 new everlasting citizens. Canada has already usual extra than 300,000 new everlasting citizens this year. The majority of them are graduates of programmes for human beings in decrease socioeconomic status. 241,850 immigrants, or round 60% of all immigrants, are the goal quantity for immigrants from the decrease socioeconomic companies in 2022. The 2022 plan additionally seeks to usher in 105,000 immigrants from the own circle of relatives elegance and 8,250 from the humanitarian and refugee categories.
Instead of being launched via way of means of November 1, 2021 as required via way of means of schedule, the 2022-2024 plan turned into now no longer made public till February 2022. The first time Parliament met after the election turned into on November 22, 2021, even though it handiest met for 19 days earlier than the vacation spoil started.
In such cases, the inspiration ought to be disclosed according with IRPA inside 30 days of the subsequent consultation of Parliament. This time, Parliament met once more withinside the center of January 2022. Since Parliament is presently in consultation, the authorities will continue with the most up-to-date Immigration Levels Plan launch on schedule.