Canada has expanded its immigration admission targets for the approaching three years. As India stays an essential hotspot for migrants in Canada, these progressions will help the Indians.
The new targets were declared by Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Sean Fraser. It intends to draw in around 1.3 million new immigrants by 2024. The 2022-24 Immigration Levels Plan intends to keep inviting migrants at a pace of 1.4 per cent of Canada’s populace, including 431,645 permanent residents for 2022, 447,055 out of 2023, and 451,000 of every 2024. Most of the immigration into Canada is in the economic class.
Fraser said, “Immigration has helped shape Canada into the country it is today. From farming and fishing to manufacturing, healthcare and the transportation sector, Canada relies on immigrants. We are focused on economic recovery, and immigration is the key to getting there.”
The 2021 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, tabled this week, showed that India remains the largest source country for immigration into Canada.
The 2021 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration showed that India stays the biggest source country for immigration into Canada.
According to the report, the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 reduced the intake severely, but of the 184,606 permanent residents admitted that year, Indians accounted for 42,876, or 23% of the total and almost two-and-a-half times the numbers for the next highest, China, at 16,535, according to the report.
India has reliably been the greatest source country starting around 2017 when it surpassed China among permanent residents (PRs). In 2019, about 85,593, Indian-origin PRs, a quarter of the total, were admitted into Canada.
In 2021, Canada welcomed more than 405,000 new permanent residents, the most immigrants in a single year in Canada’s history. The Canadian government has struggled to clear a backlog of about 1.8 million visa/citizenship due to covid-19 in 2020.
