Permanent resident program

Instructions for processing applications submitted under economic classes, for which applicants are selected on the basis of their ability to become economically established in Canada

• Federal skilled workers
• Quebec skilled workers
• Provincial nominees
• Entrepreneurs and self-employed persons
• Canadian experience class
• Federal skilled trades class
• Investors
• Start-up business class
• Home Child Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot
• Caring for children class and caring for people with high medical needs class
• Interim Pathway for Caregivers
• Live-in Caregiver Program
• Immigrant investor venture capital class
• Atlantic Immigration Pilot Programs (closed on March 5, 2022)
• Atlantic Immigration Program
• Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program (closed on August 31, 2024)
• Agri-Food Pilot
• Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway
• Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (closed on December 31, 2025)

Note: IRCC will continue to process all applications received on or before the closing date.

Instructions for processing permanent residence applications submitted under family-related and humanitarian classes, for which applicants are selected on the basis of family reunification, social and humanitarian objectives

• Family class
• Adoptions
• Spouse or common-law partner in Canada class
• Humanitarian and compassionate consideration
• Permanent residence pathways for Hong Kong residents
• Temporary public policy to further facilitate access to permanent resident status for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
• Pathway to permanent residence: In-Canada families of Canadian victims of recent air disasters
• Pathway to permanent residence: Outside-of-Canada families of Canadian victims of air disasters
• Temporary public policies to facilitate permanent residence for families of victims of PS752
• Health Care Workers Permanent Residence Pathway: COVID-19 program delivery
• Protected persons
• Temporary resident permit (TRP) holders
• Overseas processing of family members of in-Canada applicants for permanent residence
• Pathway to permanent residence: Family reunification for Ukrainian nationals
• Pathway to permanent residence: Foreign nationals who were in state care

Instructions for processing applications for the permanent resident card (PR card) and the permanent resident travel document (PRTD), permanent resident status determinations, loss of permanent resident status, the appeal process and voluntary renunciation of permanent resident status

• Loss of permanent resident status