Canada will allocate up to 100,000 additional permanent residence spaces in 2027 to applicants already in Canada, including pathways for Hongkongers, Ukraine family reunification, spouses and dependent children, and humanitarian cases.
Canada’s immigration department has released a breakdown of how it plans to allocate up to 100,000 additional permanent residence admissions spaces for 2027. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) published the figures in a press release on the federal government website on Nov. 10, 2026.
The breakdown is as follows:
All the additional admissions spaces are for persons who are already in Canada and have already applied for permanent residence. IRCC aims to process all remaining applications under the Hongkonger pathways and the Ukraine Family Reunification Pathway in 2027. The remainder of the additional spaces will go to spouses, common-law partners, and dependent children of Canadian citizens and permanent residents, and to approved-in-principle humanitarian and compassionate applicants. Applicants do not need to take any action to have the processing of their permanent residence applications accelerated under this initiative, according to the press release.
The press release provides more details on what the government calls the “specific humanitarian populations” cohort of the 2027 TR-to-PR transition measures (2027 TPTMs) announced in Budget 2026. The 2027 TPTMs include 200,000 additional permanent residence spaces, on top of the 380,000 annual target for 2027 established in the 2027–2029 Immigration Levels Plan. The other 100,000 spaces are for in-Canada workers and their family members, and are to be allocated in collaboration with the provinces and territories through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). The additional admissions planned under the 2027 TPTMs are also in addition to the two one-time initiatives (2026–2027 OTIs) the federal government introduced in 2026 with the aim of transitioning to permanent residence 115,000 protected persons and 33,000 foreign workers over the course of 2026–2027.
The allocation clarifies how Canada will use up to 100,000 additional permanent residence spaces in 2027 for applicants already in the country, covering specific pathways for Hongkongers, Ukrainians, family members, and humanitarian cases, while separate worker-focused spaces are to be handled through the Provincial Nominee Program.
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