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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is committed to providing world-class support through Settlement and Resettlement Assistance Programs, making Canada an international leader in settlement and integration. CFP 2024 reflects the commitment to effective, efficient, and flexible programs, aligning with priorities identified through cross-country consultations.

The national Call for Proposals (CFP) for 2024 aims to allocate funding to settlement and resettlement service providers...

On November 1st, Canada announced that it would be keeping immigration levels constant, hoping to welcome roughly 500,000 immigrants a year, in 2025 and 2026.

While Canada’s current immigration levels are already at record-breaking highs, a recent report from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) suggests that immigration levels will likely need to rise again soon; further stating that Canada’s immigration rates, as they currently stand, will simply not be enough to uphold the country’s population and...

Canada is set to welcome nearly 1.5 million new permanent residents over the next three years, according to the new targets recently announced by Immigration Minister Marc Miller.

Canada does not foresee a cut to immigration levels and plans to hold its target of annual newcomers steady at 500,000 people starting in 2026, according to plans tabled in Parliament by Miller. A closer look at the data and breakdown by category can give an idea of who these new immigrants headed to Canada will be.

Every year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) engages with a broad range of stakeholders from across the country to inform the development of its Immigration Levels Plan, a projection of how many permanent residents Canada will welcome under the economic, family, and refugee and humanitarian programs. This multi-year plan sets out firm targets and ranges for the first year, and notional targets for the second and third years.

For the 2024–2026 Immigration Levels Plan, IRCC...

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada is to raise immigration targets for francophones from other countries hoping to settle in Canada outside of the province of Quebec.

“Ottawa is planning to increase the target for francophone immigration outside of Quebec,” Miller tweeted.

The move comes as francophone immigration to Canada is already increasing.

The latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals francophone immigration to the country outside of Quebec more...