New Ministerial Mandate Letter
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may issue a new Ministerial Mandate letter in the coming months.
Mandate letters act as instructions to ministers from the Prime Minister on the government's objectives for their term.
In other words, the letter to Canada’s Immigration Minister shapes the country’s immigration policy and will help determine how IRCC acts moving forward.
The Prime Minister may choose to issue new mandate letters following a cabinet shuffle, such as the one that occurred this summer when Marc Miller became Canada’s new immigration minister but there is no obligation for the Prime Minister to issue a letter at all and Minister Miller may simply pick up where Sean Fraser, the previous minister left off.
The last mandate letter requested that the minister continue to welcome newcomers under the Immigration Levels Plan to help reunite family and strengthen Canada’s economic growth and recovery post-pandemic.
Immigration Levels Plan 2024-2026
In non-election years, IRCC is legally required to release its Immigration Levels Plan by November 1st.
The plan outlines the targets for the number of permanent resident admissions and further breaks it down to the class of immigration (economic, family or refugee and humanitarian) and then the program. For example, the 2023-2025 plan shows that by the end of 2025, Canada will admit 500,000 new permanent residents per year of which 301,250 will be economic class and of those, 114,000 will be Express Entry candidates.
It is not known if IRCC will decrease, increase, or maintain the targets when it releases the 2024-2026 levels plan this year. Immigration Minister Marc Miller has said that he doesn’t see the targets decreasing.
“I don’t see a world in which we lower [immigration targets], the need is too great … whether we revise them upwards or not is something that I have to look at but certainly, I don’t think [we will] lower them,” said Miller.
Express Entry
Express Entry has undergone some major changes this year. In May, IRCC introduced six new categories for category-based selection draws. In these draws a specific candidate attribute is they key consideration instead of a high a comprehensive ranking system (CRS) score. One category is for strong French-language abilities and the remaining five target those with work experience in one of these sectors:
According to a recent report by the Globe and Mail, IRCC is planning to put a heavy emphasis on candidates with STEM work experience. It said between 28 percent and 31 percent of invitations that are issued through Express Entry this year are expected to go to people with experience in STEM professions, like software developers and data scientists.
Still, all-program draws, which include candidates from the Canadian Experience Class, the Federal Skilled Trades Program, and the Federal Skilled Worker Program, have made up the majority of Invitations to Apply (ITAs) over the summer with no indication this will change.
Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP)
IRCC invites the parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens and permanent residents to apply for family class sponsorship annually. In recent years, IRCC has announced details of the Parents and Grandparents Program in the fall.
In 2022, sponsors were only chosen to apply if they were selected through a lottery. IRCC only considered sponsors who had applied between October 13, 2020, and November 3, 2020, to help clear a large backlog of applications that accumulated throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, IRCC invited 23,100 PGP participants. The current Immigration Levels Plan shows a target of 28,500 new permanent resident admissions through the PGP for 2023, rising to 36,000 by the end of 2025.
On September 8, IRCC announced the process for the PGP 2023. Beginning October 10, IRCC will send invitations to apply to 24,200 interested potential sponsors, with the goal of receiving up to the 15,000 complete applications. IRCC will only invite those who expressed their interest to sponsor back in 2020.
International Students
Minister Miller says that Canada is on track to welcome 900,000 international students this year. To help support them, IRCC and Global Affairs Canada are currently conducting a review of Canada’s international student program (ISP).
As the year progresses, more details can be expected regarding the Trusted Institutions Framework, a proposed two-tier model for study permit issuance to strengthen the integrity of the ISP.
According to reports by ICEF, Designated Learning Institutions (DLIs) that meet the IRCC criteria for a Trusted Institution could benefit from faster study permit processing for international students who are admitted.
More details on the framework should become known in the fall. There will likely also be details regarding other IRCC measures to strengthen integrity for the International Student program.
Further, on December 31 the IRCC policy to allow certain students to work full-time (with no cap on the number of hours worked) is set to expire. IRCC has said it will reevaluate the policy and decide on the next steps.
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