October is set to be a major month for Canadian immigration

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October is set to be a major month for Canadian
immigration
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Parents and Grandparents Program, Immigration
Levels Plan 2023-2025
Next month will be a busy one for Canada's
immigration sector. Over the next few weeks, we
can expect some year-end developments that will
set the stage for immigration goals and trends
for the next year and beyond.
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• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
  (IRCC) will announce the PGP 2022 process at the
  end of October and the 2023-2025 Immigration
  Levels Plan on November 1. In addition,
  Statistics Canada will release 2021 immigration
  census data for the first time in five years.
• Additionally, Express Entry Draw's composite
  ranking system (CRS) minimum score may continue
  to drop below 500 in the recently relaunched
  program, similar to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic
  standards.

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Parents and Grandparents Program 2022

• Applications for the Parents and Grandparents
  Program (PGP) will open in the coming weeks, IRCC
  told CIC News in an email on Sept. 6.
• This program allows applicants to sponsor their
  parents or grandparents to immigrate to Canada.
  In recent years, IRCC has drawn lots to determine
  which parents and grandparents are eligible for
  visas. However, it remains to be confirmed
  whether this will also be the case this year, and
  IRCC will clarify the process in its announcement.

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• Sponsors must be able to demonstrate that they
  are Canadian citizens or permanent residents over
  the age of 18 and have more than the sponsor's
  required minimum income. You must also sign a
  pledge to support your parents or grandparents
  for 20 years (10 years if the sponsor lives in
  Quebec). 
• In 2021, IRCC will host the PGP lottery, inviting
  30,000 Canadians to apply for sponsorship. Last
  year's numbers were higher to make up for lower
  numbers in 2020. With the start of the pandemic,
  IRCC is only allowing 10,000 sponsors to apply
  for the 2020 PGP.

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2021 Census Report

• Statistics Canada releases detailed immigration
  data every five years. The last immigration
  census data was released in October 2017. 
• Statistics Canada collects data on all Canadians
  every year to better understand Canadian lives.
  For example, factors such as income level, number
  of people living together, language spoken, etc.
  The government uses this data to better assess
  the real life situation of Canadians and better
  predict their needs.

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• New census data shows how many immigrants live in
  Canada, where they choose to settle, what
  languages they speak at home and how many people
  they live with. This will help shape the outlook
  for immigration initiatives such as future
  immigration levels planning.
• Data will be released in the last week of
  October.

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Express Entry CRS score may drop below 500

• After a hiatus of more than 18 months, IRCC
  resumed its program-wide Fast Track draw last
  July. In the first round of draws on July 6,
  1,500 candidates were invited to apply for
  permanent residency with a minimum score of 557
  in the overall ranking system. 
• Since July 6th, the minimum CRS has been steadily
  decreasing with each draw. The first five draws
  have dropped 8 or 9 points, and the last two
  draws on September 14 and 28 have only dropped 6
  points each. The latest score on September 28 was
  504. If this trend continues, the score for all
  programming draws since the Dec. 23, 2020 draw
  with a express entry CRS score of 468 could soon
  drop below 500.

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• Scores are slowly falling, but 504 is still
  significantly higher compared to the pre-pandemic
  relationship. The common draw CRS score before
  the pandemic was between 450 and 500. 
• As CRS scores continue to decline, so does the
  number of ITAs per draw. Likewise, the first few
  draws added 250 ITAs per draw, and the last three
  draws added 500 ITAs per draw. Before the
  pandemic, 3,400 to 4,500 candidates were invited
  to each draw for all programs in 2020.

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Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025

• IRCC publishes an immigration level plan every
  year as a guide to the number of immigrants who
  can enter Canada each year. Includes immigration
  breakdowns for economy, family and humanitarian
  class plans for the next three years.
• This year IRCC seems poised to set more record
  goals. Immigration Minister Sean Fraser told CIC
  News in June that the target of up to 500,000 new
  permanent residents could be achieved over the
  next few years, but did not specify when that
  would happen. Given Canada's current labour
  shortage and large number of job openings, the
  target is unlikely to be lowered.

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• Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
  (IRPA), IRCC has set a Nov. 1 deadline to
  announce the new plan, but Congress will be
  sitting for four consecutive weeks after
  Thanksgiving in Canada, so the plan will be
  delayed a few Sundays. It may arrive early. IRPA
  is the primary law regulating immigration to
  Canada. 
• IRCC will work with other government departments
  and stakeholders to develop an immigration
  stratification plan to balance how permanent
  resident places are allocated within each
  immigration category, and plan further from
  there. Organize some places.

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