CIMM - Minister’s Priorities and Objectives - October 24, 2023

Table of contents

Opening statement

1. Minister’s Opening Statement
2. Narrative
3. CIMM Intelligence Dashboard

Minister’s top priorities

1. International Students
   • A. International Student Caps
2. Asylum System Processing Innovations
3. Service Standards
4. Modernizing Canada’s Migration Systems
5. Client Excellence and Experience in Action

Priorities stemming from the December 2021 mandate letter

6. Immigration Levels Plan for 2023-2025
7. Human Rights Defenders
8. Afghanistan Program Commitment
   • A. Situation in Pakistan
   • B. Supporting Safe Passage for Clients in Afghanistan
9. Spousal Sponsorship Processing Times
10. Citizenship Fees
11. Temporary Foreign Worker Facilitation
12. Foreign Credential Recognition
13. Explore Ways of Regularizing Undocumented Workers
14. Canada-Quebec Accord
    • A. Francophone Immigration to Quebec
    • B. Quebec Levels
    • C. Quebec Processing Times
    • D. Temporary Foreign Workers in Quebec
    • E. Asylum Claimants in Quebec
15. Asylum Volumes
    • A. Housing Supports for Asylum Seekers
    • B. Investments in the Asylum System
    • C. Government Response to CIMM Report on Asylum Seekers at Canada’s Border
16. Temporary Residence to Permanent Residence Transitions
17. Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot
18. Federal Economic Immigration
    • A. Regional Economic Immigration

Top departmental issues

19. Defrauded Students and Genuine Students Impacted by Fraud Task Force & Fact Sheet
20. Settlement Services
21. Statistics Canada Report (Pressures on Canadians Induced by Non-Permanent Residents)
22. French-Speaking Immigrant Admissions Targets
23. Ukraine
24. IRCC’s 2022-2023 Annual Reports on the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act
25. Citizenship Ceremonies
26. Strategic Immigration Review
27. Chinook Development and Implementation in Decision-Making
28. Caregivers
29. Anti-Racism
30. Open Work Permit

Reference material

1. IRCC Mandate Commitment Placemat
2. Ukraine Dashboard
3. Afghanistan Key Figures
4. Comparisons of the Immigration Responses to Crises in Ukraine and Afghanistan
5. List of Undertakings
   6. F. CIMM 70.3 Citizenship Processing Time in 2019
   7. G. CIMM 71.2 Data on Students who Change their Institution of Study
   8. H. LANG 63.5 International Student Refusal Rate by Province