On Thursday, October 24, 2024, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, released the 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan.

In its Plan, the Government of Canada has set the number of immigrants to be admitted to Canada between 2025 and 2027 to 1.140 million individuals:

2025:   395,000
2026:   380,000
2027:   365,000

Permanent resident admissions in the economic class will reach 61.7% of total admissions by 2027.

Other measures from the 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan include the following:

• Transitioning more temporary residents who are already in Canada as students and workers to permanent residents
• Focusing on long-term economic growth and key labour market sectors, such as health and trades
• Strengthening Francophone communities outside Quebec and supporting their economic prosperity​.  Of the overall permanent resident admission targets, Francophone immigration will represent:
  • ​8.5% in 2025
  • 9.5% in 2026
  • 10% in 2027

If you are considering immigrating to Canada under the Express Entry System and you are:

• in Canada as a temporary foreign student/worker
• working in the health care field or in a trade
• Francophone or have French language ability,

now would be an excellent time for you to retain/engage our services so that you can benefit from the Government of Canada’s policy initiatives and the high number of economic immigrants being admitted to Canada.

If you have already had your eligibility to immigrate to Canada favourably assessed by Abrams & Krochak and you wish to proceed with your proposed Canadian Immigration plans, please send an e-mail to askus@akcanada.com and we will provide you with further instructions.

To have your eligibility to immigrate to Canada assessed by Abrams & Krochak, please visit https://www.akcanada.com/assessment1.php.

Our Online Eligibility Assessment Questionnaire is on a secure server; therefore, any information that you might provide to our firm cannot be viewed by anyone else on the Internet and all information provided to Abrams & Krochak will be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Our Online Eligibility Assessment Questionnaire is designed to enable our firm’s team of lawyers to assess your qualifications for Immigration to Canada in accordance with Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s selection criteria, at no charge to you, usually within a few hours but no more than one (1) business day from the time that your completed Online Eligibility Assessment Questionnaire is received. Business days in Canada are from 09:00 to 17:00, Eastern Time, Monday to Friday. If Abrams & Krochak determines that we can assist you to immigrate to Canada, a member of our firm will provide you with a detailed breakdown of Abrams & Krochak’s fees and services, via e-mail.

We look forward to receiving your completed Online Eligibility Assessment Questionnaire and to hopefully seeing you soon in Canada!

Today, Monday, June 3, 2024, the Honourable Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”), Marc Miller, announced two new pilot programs that will give caregivers from abroad permanent residence upon arriving in Canada, a step intended to update and replace existing pilot programs that will wind down later this month.

The programs are aimed at offering care for children, seniors and people with disabilities.  They will also allow caregivers to work for organizations that offer temporary or part-time care for people who are recovering from injury or illness and those who are not fully independent.

Caregivers abroad hoping to work in Canada will be able to apply for the programs if they have the equivalent of a Canadian high school diploma, recent and relevant job experience, and an offer for a full-time home-care position.  Language proficiency requirements will be dropped from CLB Level 5 to CLB Level 4.

The new pilot programs will launch sometime after June 17, 2024.  As soon as they launch and/or more information about the programs becomes available, we will publish the details on our website.

Today, Thursday, May 23, 2024, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), introduced legislation that would extend citizenship by descent beyond the first generation.

Bill C-71, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2024), would automatically confer Canadian citizenship to persons born abroad to a Canadian parent who is also born abroad prior to the coming into force of this legislation. It would also extend access to a direct grant of citizenship to children born abroad and adopted by a Canadian parent beyond the first generation. Following the coming into force of the legislation, parents born abroad who have or adopt children also born outside Canada will need to have spent at least 1,095 cumulative days of physical presence in Canada prior to the birth or adoption of their child to pass on citizenship.

Bill C-71, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2024), would also restore citizenship to “Lost Canadians”—individuals who lost or never acquired citizenship as a result of outdated provisions of previous citizenship legislation. Bill C-71 would also provide citizenship to the descendants of “Lost Canadians” and to anyone born abroad to a Canadian parent in the second or subsequent generations, before the legislation comes into force.

If you may be impacted by the changes proposed in Bill C-71, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2024), please be advised that, if the bill passes in Parliament and receives Royal Assent, IRCC will work as quickly as possible to implement these changes and will provide more information for eligible individuals, which Abrams & Krochak will publish on our website.

Starting today, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will randomly invite potential sponsors who submitted an interest to sponsor form in 2020 to apply for the 2024 intake.

IRCC intends to send 35,700 invitations over the course of approximately 2 weeks. Their stated goal is to accept up to 20,500 complete applications.

If one receives an Invitation to Apply, the complete application must be submitted to IRCC by 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, August 2, 2024 and there will be no exceptions.

If you are an existing client of Abrams & Krochak who submitted an interest to sponsor form in 2020 and have not received an Invitation to Apply, to date, please do not contact our office to request an update. Should we receive communication from IRCC that you received an Invitation to Apply for the 2024 intake, we will notify you immediately by e-mail. If your e-mail address and/or contact information has/have changed since 2020, please contact our office by e-mail to notify us of the change(s).