Supplementary Information for the 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is pleased to release details on the 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan (Levels Plan). The Levels Plan includes permanent resident targets and ranges under immigration categories of Economic, Family, Refugees and Protected Persons, and Humanitarian & Compassionate and Other. The 2025-2027 Levels Plan also includes, for the first time, temporary resident targets for international students and temporary foreign workers, constituting a new holistic approach to managed migration. Temporary and permanent residents play a key role in supporting economic growth, addressing labour market shortages, and contributing to the diversity of communities across Canada, including Francophone minority communities outside of Quebec.

In recent years, Canada welcomed newcomers to support our economy and address labour market needs. As we move away from post-pandemic measures, there is a need to better align temporary and permanent resident immigration levels with community capacity. The 2025-27 Levels Plan adopts a whole-of-society approach to be responsive to needs of newcomers and Canadians, including through consultations with federal departments and agencies, provinces and territories, municipalities, Indigenous Peoples, stakeholders, communities and Canadians.

To ensure a well-managed migration system the Government is reducing the share of temporary residents to 5% of the total population by the end of 2026. A series of measures have been announced over the course of the past year to achieve this goal, including an intake cap on most study permit applications and an amended cost of living requirement for students, eligibility changes to Post-Graduation Work Permits and to work permits issued to the spouses of international students and foreign workers under both the International Mobility Program (IMP) and Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. Additional measures applied to the low-wage stream of the TFW Program were also recently introduced to better align the program with current labour market conditions.