Another Monthly Record Broken
Canada will most likely achieve its goal of accepting 401,000 immigrants this year. For the third month in a row, the country has broken their own record by accepting more than 47,000 permanent residents.
This means the country has acquired 361,371 new permanent residents in the past eleven months.
Since the IRCC is focused on transitioning many individuals within Canada to permanent resident status, it is likely that the country will achieve its overall goal regardless of the Omicron variant. Before the pandemic, a landing would occur after a foreign national physically arrived in the country. However, since COVID, a landing is now considered to be a change in an individual’s legal status – a conversion to permanent residency.
Prior to the pandemic, about 30% of new permanent residents lived in Canada, while the remaining 70% came from abroad. This has reversed since IRCC made changes to achieve its Immigration Levels Plan target.
Achieving the 401,000 target has been the top priority for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Now when they are approaching the goal they will expand their priorities and following the new directive provided by the Prime Minister. More focus will be placed on Express Entry draws for Canadian Experience Class and transitioning international students and temporary foreign workers living in Canada to permanent residents.
