New Canada Immigration Levels Plan: 2025-2027. Today, the minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), announces the new immigration levels plan 2025-2027.

This article lists all the official category-wise new permanent resident and temporary resident targets.

Official announcement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Immigration Minister Marc Miller:

Permanent resident targets

Permanent resident targets focus on measures from the 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan, including the following:

Transitioning more temporary residents who are already in Canada as students and workers to permanent residents

Representing more than 40% of overall permanent resident admissions in 2025, these residents are skilled, educated and integrated into Canadian society.

They will continue to support the workforce and economy without placing additional demands on our social services because they are already established with housing and employment.

Focusing on long-term economic growth and key labour market sectors, such as health and trades

Permanent resident admissions in the economic class will reach 61.7% of total admissions by 2027.

Strengthening Francophone communities outside Quebec and supporting their economic prosperity
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Of the overall permanent resident admission targets, Francophone immigration will represent 8.5% in 2025 and 9.5% in 2026.

New Canada Immigration Levels Plan: 2025-2027.

		2025			2026			2027
Immigrant Category		Target	Low Range	High Range	Target	Low Range	High Range	Target	Low Range	High Range
Overall Planned Permanent Resident Admissions		395,000 (367,000 – 436,000)			380,000 (352,000 – 416,000)			365,000 (338,000 – 401,000)
Overall French-speaking Permanent Resident Admissions outside Quebec		8.5% (29,325)			9.5% (31,350)			10% (31,500)
Economic	Federal Economic Priorities	41,700	30,000	62,000	47,400	30,000	65,000	47,800	32,000	65,000
	In-Canada Focus	82,980	39,000	89,000	75,830	33,000	82,000	70,930	66,000	76,000
	Federal Business	2,000	1,200	3,000	1,000	200	2,000	1,000	200	2,000
	Federal Economic Pilots: Caregivers ; Agri-Food; Community Immigration Pilots ; Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot	10,920	6,000	14,800	9,920	5,300	14,000	9,920	5,300	14,000
	Atlantic Immigration Program	5,000	4,000	7,000	5,000	4,000	7,000	5,000	4,000	7,000
	Provincial Nominee Program	55,000	20,000	65,000	55,000	20,000	65,000	55,000	20,000	65,000
	Quebec Skilled Workers and Business	34,500	33,000	50,000	TBD	–	–	TBD	–	–
	Regularization Public Policy	50	–	250	100	–	500	200	–	1,000
	Total Economic	232,150 (215,000 – 256,000)			229,750 (214,000 – 249,000)			225,350 (207,000 – 246,000)
Family	Spouses, Partners and Children	70,000	65,500	78,000	66,500	63,000	75,000	61,000	58,000	67,500
	Parents and Grandparents	24,500	20,500	28,000	21,500	16,500	24,500	20,000	15,000	22,000
	Total Family	94,500 (88,500 – 102,000)			88,000 (82,000 – 96,000)			81,000 (77,000 – 89,000)
Refugees and Protected Persons	Protected Persons in Canada and Dependents Abroad	20,000	18,000	30,000	18,000	16,000	30,000	18,000	16,000	30,000
	Resettled Refugees – Government Assisted	15,250	13,000	17,000	15,250	13,000	17,000	15,250	13,000	17,000
	Resettled Refugees – Blended Visa Office Referred	100	–	150	100	–	150	100	–	150
	Resettled Refugees – Privately Sponsored	23,000	21,000	26,000	22,000	19,000	24,000	21,000	19,000	24,000
	Total Refugees and Protected Persons	58,350 (55,000 – 65,000)			55,350 (50,000 – 62,000)			54,350 (50,000 – 60,000)
Total Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other		10,000 (8,500 – 13,000)			6,900 (6,000 – 9,000)			4,300 (4,000 – 6,000)

Below are the temporary resident targets introduced for the first time ever in Canadian history.

Temporary resident targets

TR targets will capture the number of new workers and students arriving in Canada:

• Student arrivals are aligned with the previously announced
• Worker arrivals are those under the International Mobility Program and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).

As such, categories excluded from the TR targets but included in the stock of TRs are:

• Work or study permit extensions or change of status from within Canada (since we would be counting an individual’s status more than once). This is factored into the outflows.
• Seasonal workers who enter and leave Canada within the same year (since they aren’t a part of our year-end population count).
• Asylum claimants who are seeking protection in Canada (since they are entitled by law to have their claim assessed so we can’t control the volumes like we do with other programs).

	2025	2026	2027
Overall Arrival	673,650 (604,900 – 742,400)	516,600 (435,250 – 597,950)	543,600 (472,900 – 614,250)
Workers (Total)	367,750	210,700	237,700
International Mobility Program	285,750	128,700	155,700
Temporary Foreign Worker Program	82,000	82,000	82,000
Students	305,900	305,900	305,900

Taken together, the targets are expected to result in a net decrease in temporary residents over the next two years. Specifically, compared to each previous year, we will see:

• 445,901 fewer TRs in 2025
• 445,662 fewer TRs in 2026
• a modest increase of 17,439 TRs in 2027

What’s unique about Canada’s immigration levels plan 2025-2027?

The immigration levels plan outlines the number of new foreigners inside or outside Canada who will be granted permanent resident status annually over the next 3 years under various categories.

Usually, these are announced on November 1st of every year, but this time immigration targets are being announced a week ahead.

Additionally, it will be the first time in Canadian history that annual targets for the number of temporary residents will also be announced.

In 2023, the country had about 2,500,000 temporary residents, accounting for 6.2% of the total population.

Miller says the forthcoming Plan would aim to reduce the number of temporary immigrants admitted in the future years, bringing the figure down to 5% within the next three years.

Spoiler Alert By News Outlets

Leading Canadian news media outlets already published the new immigration levels plan 2025-2027, citing that an internal source already supplied credible information.

While it was already expected that Canada would slash down the immigration targets, anonymous sources released the information that there would be a around 21% reduction in annual immigration levels.

90,000 fewer permanent residents will be allowed to enter in 2025 with an annual target of 395,000 as compared to the 2024 annual target, followed by 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.

The immigration levels plan is important for the upcoming year, that is, 2025, since these plans are reviewed annually on or before November 1 every year.

Immigration Category	2025 Target	2026 Target	2027 Target
Total Permanent Residents	395,000	380,000	365,000

Click here for a detailed report outlining amount of cuts internal sources have reported among the various immigration categories including economic immigration, provincial nomination programs, family sponsorship, and refugees.

Year	2024		2025		2026
Total Projected admissions Targets and Ranges	485,000		500,000		500,000
	Low	High	Low	High	Low	High
	430,000	532,500	442,500	550,000	442,500	550,000
Economic immigration	281,135		301,250		301,250
	250,000	305,000	265,000	326,000	265,000	326,000
Family reunification	114,000		118,000		118,000
	105,000	130,000	107,000	135,000	107,000	135,000
Refugees, protected persons, humanitarian and compassionate, and other	89,865		80,750		80,750
	75,000	110,500	70,500	92,000	70,500	92,000