Impact of Covid-19 on Immigration to Canada – Working Deck- October 2020 Numbers
2021/01/05 Leave a comment
This deck reviews the impact of COVID-19 on immigration-related programs as of October 2020 (the latest data that is publicly available) with exceptions noted.
Programs covered include permanent residents, temporary residents (IMP, TFWP, students), asylum claimants, citizenship and visitor visas. Data is from IRCC/Opendata.
The deck highlights the commonalities and differences in impact between different programs, their respective categories or types and the top 10 source countries for each program.
The deck also includes website outside Canada traffic for work permits, study permits, integration services and citizenship. This can be seen as a leading indicator as this data becomes available immidiately after end month (e.g., December 2020).
The data for IMP and TFWP dates from August, settlement services from May (special run).
While there has been a slight recovery from the virtually complete shutdowns of the April-June quarter, the decline in all programs is over 60 percent for the April-October period.