🚀 New Immigration Plan 2025-2027

Canada’s New 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan

📊Let’s compare the plan and see what’s changed

In Canada’s 2025 Immigration Levels Plan, several key adjustments have been made to economic immigration categories, reflecting a ~19% cut from the previous year, 2024:

• Federal High Skilled has been replaced by two new categories: Federal Economic Priorities with 41,700 spots 🎯, and In-Canada Focus with 82,890 spots for 2025. This is a major shift from the 110,770 spots allocated under the previous Federal High Skilled category in 2024.

• Federal Business targets decrease from 5,000 in 2024 to 2,000 in 2025 📉.

• Economic Pilots remain steady, with about ~10,900 spots available for both years 🔄.

• The Atlantic Immigration Program drops from 6,500 in 2024 to 5,000 in 2025.

• The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is significantly reduced from 110,000 in 2024 to 55,000 in 2025 📉.

• Quebec Skilled Worker & Business sees a slight reduction, from 37,891 in 2024 to 34,500 in 2025

➡️Federal Economic Priorities: The 2025 priority categories include: health care occupations, trade occupations, and French-language proficiency.

➡️In-Canada Focus: Primarily admissions from the Canadian Experience Class and other regional immigration pathways but may also come from Federal Skilled Workers and Federal Skilled Trades.

➡️Economic Pilots: Caregiver (includes admissions for old & new pilots) ; Agri-Food; Community Immigration Pilots (Rural Community Immigration Pilot & Francophone Community Immigration Pilot); Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot

Other Changes

First time Limit set for Temporary Residents 

The targets for new temporary resident arrivals have been set at 673,650 in 2025, 516,600 in 2026, and 543,600 in 2027. These numbers reflect the work and study permits issued to new arrivals coming to Canada during these years.

International Mobility Program consists of various streams that do not require a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). These include work permits issued through agreements with partner countries, as well as permits granted under economic, family-class, or humanitarian public policies, and Post-Graduation Work Permits.

The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program is run in partnership with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and is designed to help employers fill specific jobs when no Canadians or permanent residents are available. To hire workers through this program, employers need a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), and it issues closed work permits. The program covers both seasonal and non-seasonal agricultural workers.

TFW Program targets focus on non-seasonal workers who stay in Canada for more than a year. Priority is given to primary agriculture workers who remain in Canada for longer than a year to minimize any negative effects on the economy and food supply.

Seasonal workers who enter and leave within the same year, such as those in seasonal agriculture or low-wage roles staying less than 270 days, are excluded from these targets.

Study permits are granted to foreign nationals who are pursuing studies for six months or more at a Designated Learning Institution (DLI) in Canada. These institutions are approved by provincial or territorial governments to host international students.