his comes at a time when the number of immigrants coming to Canada through the PNP is expected to exceed 105,000 in each of the next three years. In fact, under the Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025, the number of Canadian immigrants through the PNP is set to rise to 105,500 this year and 117,500 by 2025.
Note: When Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) launched the PNP back in 1998, just 400 PNP immigrants came to Canada through this program the following year.
The purpose of the PNP
The recent and upcoming boom in PNP immigrants to Canada is a product of provincial and territorial governments needing and requesting more skilled immigrants to fill specific labour gaps in their region. In other words, the purpose of this program is to spread the economic, social and cultural benefits of immigration across the country and Canada is increasing the number of PNP immigrants to aid in this goal.
This goal is accomplished through the PNP because it allows every participating province or territory to offer PR to hand-picked immigration candidates who are interested in calling their province/territory home.
Recent PNP developments
In light of the desire to attract more skilled immigrants to each province/territory across Canada, Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial immigration ministers met last July and agreed to create a new multi-year immigration plan specific to the PNP. This plan was designed to give the two levels of government more ability to plan immigrant attraction and settlement across the country.
Earlier this month, immigration ministers from each province and territory met with federal authorities again, where they re-endorsed the multi-year PNP plan during the bi-annual Forum of Ministers Responsible for Immigration (FMRI).
Since the March 10th meeting, provinces have started to unveil their new PNP allocations, beginning with Ontario.
Ontario’s immigration minister had made it clear that the province sought more control over its economic class immigration programs. In an interview with CIC News last July, Monte McNaughton noted at the time that “Ontario chooses less than 5% of [its over 211,000] immigrants” in 2022. Accordingly, the minister said that he would be making two primary requests to the federal government.
The first request was to have more autonomy over economic immigration in Ontario and the second was to see the province’s PNP allocation double to 18,000.
This past Saturday, Ontario and the federal government announced that the province’s wish was being granted, as Ontario will now be seeing its PNP allocation rise to 18,000 per year by 2025.
At the time of writing, several other provinces have also announced their future PNP allocations.
Alberta will see its allocation rise to 10,849 in 2025. Saskatchewan’s PNP allocation will rise to 8,500 by 2025. Manitoba is seeing its allocation grow to 9,500 this year.
Yukon has announced that they have been allocated 430 PNP spots for 2023, up from 300 last year.
Source: IRCC
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