Canada is raising its anticipated intake of immigrants, with a target of 475,000 in 2024. Indians will be among the biggest beneficiaries of the proposal, since they are the single greatest source of immigration to Canada.
Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, announced the revised goals. The Immigration Levels Plan for 2022-24 seeks to keep receiving immigrants at a rate of around 1% of Canada’s population, with 431,645 permanent residents in 2022, 447,055 in 2023, and 451,000 in 2024. The upper end of the anticipated range for 2024, on the other hand, might reach 475,000.
The majority of immigration into Canada is economic, with Indians accounting for about 60% of that total.
The 2021 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, which was tabled this week, revealed that India continues to be the top source nation for immigration to Canada. The introduction of the Covd-19 pandemic in 2020 drastically decreased the intake, yet of the 184,606 permanent residents accepted that year, Indians accounted for 42,876, or 23 percent of the total and over two-and-a-half times the next largest, China, at 16,535.
Since 2017, when it surpassed China in terms of permanent residents, India has regularly been the largest source nation (PRs). In 2019, 85,593 Indian-origin PRs were admitted to Canada, accounting for one-quarter of the total.
“Immigration has helped shape Canada into the country it is today,” Fraser said in a statement. Immigrants are essential in Canada’s agricultural and fishing industries, as well as in industry, healthcare, and transportation. We are focused on economic recovery, and immigration is critical to achieving that goal.”
To make up for low immigration in 2020, the government has increased the objective established in its 2021-23 Immigration Levels Plan to 401,000 in 2021, 411,000 in 2022, and 421,000 in 2023.