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The Canadian government announced additional measures to manage the volume of temporary resident arrivals, including a further reduction in the intake cap on international student study permits in 2025.
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Additional Information: Earlier this year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced a plan to decrease the number of temporary residents from 6.5% of Canada’s total population to 5% by 2026. As BAL previously reported, a national cap on study permit applications for 2024 was first announced on Jan. 22 to address the rapid increase of international students in Canada and meet this goal. Since then, the government has announced additional reforms, including raising the cost-of-living financial requirement for study permit applications and reforming the International Student Program to manage the increase of temporary residents. Officials are now also tightening eligibility requirements for temporary foreign workers to reach the targeted decrease of the temporary resident population to 5% over the next three years.
BAL Analysis: The Canadian government continues to implement updates to policies concerning international students and temporary workers to recalibrate the number of temporary resident arrivals. Employers should be aware of these policy updates and consider them in their employment strategies and recruitment efforts.
This alert has been provided by the BAL Global Practice Group.
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