Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program and the high-skilled economic immigration programs now managed by Canada’s Express Entry system are set to play increasingly vital roles in Canada’s immigration strategy over the next three years.
The combined admissions targets for these popular immigration programs are slated to reach 160,100 new permanent residents in 2021 under an increase of 23 per cent over their combined 2018 targets of 129,900.
Together, the three Federal High Skilled programs will account for 44 per cent of the 1.3 million new permanent residents that Canada is planning to welcome between 2018 and 2021.
The admissions targets for 2018 to 2021 for Canada’s PNP and the three Federal High Skilled categories now managed by Express Entry are as follows: