On September 3, IRCC invited 229 physicians with Canadian work experience to apply for permanent residence. The cut-off was 198 — the second-lowest score recorded in any physicians round since the category opened. The next day, 3,500 invitations went to healthcare and social services workers at CRS 475.
Between July 21 and August 19, IRCC ran ten Express Entry draws. Not one was a general draw. Three went to French-language proficiency candidates, at CRS scores as low as 382. Three went to Canadian Experience Class, clearing between 516 and 523. Two went to Provincial Nominee Program candidates,
On August 4, IRCC required a CRS of 768 to invite 507 Provincial Nominee candidates into permanent residence. The next day, a Canadian Experience Class draw issued 3,000 invitations at 516. The day after that, a French-language draw cleared 5,000 candidates at 391. Three draws, three consecutive
Four. That's how many invitations IRCC issued in its July 23 Express Entry draw — the smallest round in the program's eleven-year history, and the first time it has ever drawn from the newly introduced Skilled Military Recruits category: foreign nationals with active military service abroad
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Four July Express Entry draws and new IRCC processing data reveal a system deliberately favouring candidates already in Canada over new arrivals.
The number worth anchoring on from the Canada Gazette's June 12 publication is 30,665. That is how many of the 36,060 permanent residence applications suspended under Canada's Ebola measures — eighty-five percent — belong to the protected persons class. These are not speculative economic migrants
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The number I keep returning to from last year’s immigration consultation is not 80 — though 80% of individual respondents telling IRCC that Canada’s temporary resident targets were “too many” is striking enough on its own. It is 60. Because 60% of organizations — employers, settlement agencies, academic institutions, chambers
The number that anchors my reading of the May 4 In-Canada Workers Initiative is 53,255. IRCC reported 3,600 grants in January–February — 6.8% of total admissions. This is not an expansion announcement. It is a consolidation announcement.
The number that anchors this piece is 2.1 million. That is how many temporary resident permits expired in Canada in 2025 alone. Another 1.9 million are expected to expire in 2026. Against that backdrop, IRCC has announced a TR to PR pathway with 33,000 spots — 16,500