IRCC Tables Immigration Levels Plan 2025-2027

Every year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) releases a new Immigration Levels Plan which provides immigration projections/targets for the next three years. These targets are largely developed to reflect Canada’s economic needs however, they also consider the impact of global humanitarian needs. For the settlement and integration sector, the Levels Plan functions as both an early notice of expected immigration levels as well as an indicator of the current perceptions of immigration within Canada.

This year’s announcement was especially anticipated for a number of reasons. Earlier in the year, the government of Canada announced that this year’s Levels Plan would for the first time include temporary residents’ numbers, an addition that the settlement sector had been petitioning for quite some time. In addition, whereas the past years had seen steady growth in the number of targeted newcomers, Canadian media highly speculated that this year’s levels plan would see a significant reduction in levels.