In the First two months of 2023, immigration to Canada increased by 40%.

• Canada welcomed 100,430 new permanent residents in January and February, compared to 72,815 in the first two months of 2022, a record year for immigration to Canada.
• Canada has planned 485,000 new permanent residents in 2024 and another 500,000 in 2025 in its Immigration Levels Plan for 2023-2025.

Month on month, immigration to Canada fell by 2.6% in February, to 49,550 new permanent residents, compared to 50,885 newcomers the previous month, a record-breaking January.

Economic programmes, such as the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP), Agri-Food Immigration Pilot Program (AFIP), Canadian Experience Class (CEC), Caregiver programmes, Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program (RNIP), Federal Skilled Trades (FST) and Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) programmes, Start-Up Visa (SUV) and Self-Employed Persons (SEP) programmes, and the Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway,

In 2022, these programmed will have assisted 93,795 new permanent residents to arrive in Ontario. Another 46,610 new permanent residents arrived in Ontario as a result of family sponsorship, while 39,765 arrived as a result of Canada's refugee programmers.

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