2018-2020 Immigration Levels - 1 MILLION IN 3 YEARS

Ottawa, November 1, 2017— Following the tabling of the 2017 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration on November 1, 2017, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is pleased to release details on its 2018 multi-year Immigration Levels Plan. Canada will welcome 310,000 new permanent residents in 2018, 330,000 in 2019 and 340,000 in 2020.

Canada will open its doors to a steadily increasing number of immigrants in the next three years in hopes of attracting 1 per cent of its population by 2020, an attempt to buoy the economy as the country faces a growing population of retirees.

The plan is to bring in 310,000 new permanent residents in 2018, 330,000 in 2019 and 340,000 in 2020 – an increase from the Liberal government's trend the past two years of 300,000 immigrants.

Of the nearly one million immigrants, 58 per cent will be economic class, 27 per cent will be family class and 14 per cent will be refugees.

In its 2018-to-2020 plan, the government has put an emphasis on highly skilled immigrants, who will make up more than 40 per cent of all economic class immigrants in the next three years.

Statistics Canada has projected that by 2036, immigrants could make up 30 per cent of the total population of the country.

EXPRESS ENTRY TARGET - ADMISSIONS

2017-71,700

2018-74,900

2019-81,400

2020-85,800

Another 184,000 or so economic migrants and their accompanying family members will be admitted through the Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs),

PNP TARGET ADMISSIONS

2017-51,000

2018-55,000

2019-61,000

2020-67,800

Other key highlights from Canada’s multi-year Immigration Levels Plan include a target to reunite around 265,000 spouses, common-law partners, dependent children, parents, and grandparents of Canadian citizens and permanent residents

2017-84,000

2018-86,000

2019-88,500

2020-91,000

Parents and Grand Parents Program (Numbers split from  above - Family Class)

2018 - 20,000

2019-20,500

2020-21,000