Canada announces a new immigration policy for 2021, 2022, and 2023. Canada will give more than 1.2 Million visas in the next three years.
On October 30, 2020, the Honourable Marco Mendicino, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tabled the 2021‒2023 Immigration Levels Plan that will allow 401,000 immigrants in 2021, 411,000 in 2022, and 421,000 in 2023.
This year shows its significance at its peak where the immigration policy was announced twice. Back in March when the previous plan set targets of 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022. Canada needs workers due to its old growing population.
The set-aside target of 400,000 for each of the upcoming years will be the highest number of immigrants of all time.
The 2021-2023 Immigration Level Plan aims to welcome about 60% of the economic class (PR and work visas) of all immigrants.There were 64% fewer permanent residents in August than in August 2019. The candidate was unable to travel to Canada before his immigration documents expired due to travel restrictions and other barriers related to the coronavirus.
The biggest challenge for Canada is that its labor force is out of balance. Over the next two decades, 13.4 million people are expected to be out of work, but only 11.8 million will drop out of school and join the workforce.it also has the lowest birth rate in the world.
The immigration plan of 2021 to 2023 details
| 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan | |||
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
| project admissions – Targets | 401,000 | 411,000 | 421,000 |
| project admissions – Ranges | HIGH LOW | HIGH LOW | HIGH LOW |
| Federal economic, Provincial nominees | 153600 208,500 | 167,500 213,900 | 173,500 217,500 |
| Refugees, Protected, humanitarian and compassionate | 43,500 68000 | 47,000 68,0000 | 49,000 70,500 |
| Family reunification | 76000 105,000 | 74000 105,000 | 74000 106,000 |
Travel restrictions
Canda has extended the travel restrictions till February 2021, 2021, in a row for the sixth time since it first introduced it in March 2020.
The people who are exempted from these conditions are:
- Canadian citizens (including dual citizens) or permanent residents
- certain people who have been approved for Canadian permanent residence
- certain temporary foreign workers
- certain international students
- protected persons
- immediate family members of Canadians
- extended family members of Canadians
- people coming to Canada for compassionate reasons
The complete distribution of quota
Three years of Immigration Plan:
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||||||||
| Immigrant Category | Target | Low Range | High Range | Target | Low Range | High Range | Target | Low Range | High Range | |
| Total Permanent Resident Admissions | 401,000 | 300,000 | 410,000 | 411,000 | 320,000 | 420,000 | 421,000 | 330,000 | 430,000 | |
| Humanitarian and Other | Total Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other | 5,500 | 4,000 | 6,000 | 5,500 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 5,500 | 8,000 |
| Refugees and Protected Persons | Protected Persons in Canada and Dependents Abroad | 23,500 | 17,000 | 25,000 | 24,500 | 19,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 19,500 | 25,500 |
| Resettled Refugees – Government-Assisted | 12,500 | 7,500 | 13,000 | 12,500 | 7,500 | 13,000 | 12,500 | 8,400 | 13,000 | |
| Resettled Refugees – Privately Sponsored | 22,500 | 14,900 | 23,000 | 22,500 | 15,400 | 23,000 | 22,500 | 15,500 | 23,000 | |
| Resettled Refugees – Blended Visa Office-Referred | 1,000 | 100 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 100 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 100 | 1,000 | |
| Total Refugees and Protected Persons | 59,500 | 39,500 | 62,000 | 60,500 | 42,000 | 62,000 | 61,000 | 43,500 | 62,500 | |
| Family | Spouses, Partners, and Children | 80,000 | 61,000 | 81,000 | 80,000 | 60,000 | 81,000 | 81,000 | 60,000 | 82,000 |
| Parents and Grandparents | 23,500 | 15,000 | 24,000 | 23,500 | 14,000 | 24,000 | 23,500 | 14,000 | 24,000 | |
| Total Family | 103,500 | 76,000 | 105,000 | 103,500 | 74,000 | 105,000 | 104,500 | 74,000 | 106,000 | |
| Economic | Federal High Skilled | 108,500 | 81,000 | 110,250 | 110,500 | 96,250 | 112,900 | 113,750 | 100,000 | 114,500 |
| Federal Business | 1,000 | 400 | 1,250 | 1,000 | 250 | 1,250 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,250 | |
| Economic Pilots: Caregivers | 8,500 | 4,900 | 9,250 | 10,000 | 4,500 | 10,500 | 10,250 | 4,500 | 11,000 | |
| Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program | 6,000 | 3,300 | 6,250 | 6,250 | 3,000 | 6,750 | 6,500 | 3,500 | 6,750 | |
| Provincial Nominee Program | 80,800 | 64,000 | 81,500 | 81,500 | 63,600 | 82,500 | 83,000 | 65,000 | 84,000 | |
| Quebec Skilled Workers and Business | See the Quebec immigration plan | See the Quebec immigration plan | See the Quebec immigration plan | |||||||
| Total Economic | 232,500 | 180,500 | 237,000 | 241,500 | 199,000 | 247,000 | 249,500 | 207,000 | 253,500 | |
| 4.4 percent of total outside Quebec Admissions | 12,144 | 16 | ||||||||