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Rural and Francophone minority communities are key to both Canada’s long-term growth and our linguistic vitality. However, these communities face unique economic and demographic challenges. That is why the Government of Canada is launching two new pilots this fall to attract the skilled workers they need to grow their economies and communities.

Today, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, launched the community application process for the Rural Community...

Canada’s immigration ministers discussed the economic and social benefits of immigration, levels of permanent and temporary residents, and related capacity pressures. Ministers emphasized that a well-managed immigration system is critical to Canada’s objective of distributing the benefits of immigration across the country and agreed that the ability to welcome and integrate newcomers is linked to having strong public services. Provincial and territorial ministers continued to call on the...

IRCC seeing record high applicants, with CRS average topping 540 since January. When Harkirat Singh Virdi moved to Brampton from India, he was focused on building a career in computer programming.

But he wound up pivoting to learn French, and spending $3,000 in the process, to help his bid to land permanent residency.

"I started to learn French for 10 hours per day and just left my part time job… it was the best investment," said the 23-year-old, who became a permanent resident in 2022.

Singh...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says some immigrants to Canada who lack official status need a pathway to help them stay, while in other cases Ottawa must speed up deportation procedures.

His comments come as advocates for gender and sexual minorities say the lack of a regularization program is leaving people without official status in Canada subject to exploitation.

"People who aren't here regularly need to be supported and taken care of," Trudeau told reporters Friday in Winnipeg.

"There needs to...

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For some immigrants, their dreams of permanently settling in Canada have taken an unexpected twist.

Canada is grappling not only with a surge of immigrants arriving in the country, but also those who are leaving.

The number of newcomers leaving Canada has been steadily increasing since the 1980s, according to a 2023 study.

Beyond finding better job opportunities and a higher standard of living elsewhere, newcomers' reasons for leaving may be more complex, and are sometimes a personal choice rather...

A key method of restricting the population of temporary residents is to offer them permanent resident status, the immigration minister said Friday — but that doesn't mean everyone who wants to stay will be able to.

Marc Miller met with his provincial and territorial counterparts for the first time since since he announced an unprecedented plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents.

Several provincial ministers pitched expanding their own immigration programs as a way to...

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Thursday the federal government is looking to shrink temporary residents' share of Canada's population over the next three years.

Miller said temporary residents made up 6.2 per cent of Canada's population in 2023 and the government is working to reduce that share to 5 per cent by 2027. That would mean a decrease in the temporary resident population of roughly 19 per cent, he said.

"This is not a historical low, driving it down by 19 per cent, but it is...

The Liberal government is proposing to make changes to Canada’s asylum claim system which could speed up the deportation process for rejected applicants from the country.

The proposed amendments were quietly announced two weeks ago in the 2024 federal budget and come as Canada deals with a record number of asylum seekers.

“Budget 2024 also proposes to introduce changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to simplify and streamline the claims process in support of faster decisions and...