Canada targets to grant citizenship to 300,000 immigrants in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, a change likely to subsidise many Indians living there.

According to the CIC News, an Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) memo comments that it processes 285,000 conclusions and 300,000 new citizens by 31st March 2023. A decision means an appraisal of an application that is then permitted, denied, or manifested as incomplete.

In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Canada has welcomed 116,000 new citizens and is focused on the track to hit the target. In 2019-2020, 253,000 citizenship applications were administered. To meet the citizenship target, 300,000 sanctioned applicants must take the oath of citizenship in person or virtually. Minors under 18 will be entitled to apply for citizenship online by the year-end.

Although there is no country-wise break-up of the numbers, Indians are the top immigrant group to take up dwelling in Canada in 2022.

In 2021, approximately 100,000 Indians moved to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and around 130,000 got work licenses under the International Mobility Program. During 2021-2022, over 210,000 everlasting residents also attained Canadian citizenship.

As per figures unconfined by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), it also issued 450,000 study permit applications. There are over 622,000 international students in Canada, and the Indians number 217,410 as of December 31, 2021.