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Temporary residents

Canada – Transition from temporary to permanent resident status by category

*principal applicants
**spouses and dependants

Number
Transition 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
From foreign worker 6,833 3,931 2,297 3,309 4,530 5,262 4,680 5,480 5,304 4,560
From foreign student 1,720 1,273 1,395 1,892 2,123 1,887 2,012 1,985 1,747 1,264
From humanitarian population 2,462 1,599 352 578 948 973 966 959 926 875
From other 7,376 6,680 6,916 8,529 6,939 7,009 7,867 8,295 7,848 7,152
To family class 18,391 13,483 10,960 14,308 14,540 15,131 15,525 16,719 15,825 13,851
From foreign worker 5,570 4,857 5,085 6,914 7,502 10,321 11,827 17,336 21,011 22,997
From foreign student 2,157 2,067 2,022 2,780 2,914 4,380 4,450 4,178 3,127 3,090
From humanitarian population 1,044 726 135 115 130 118 127 135 126 139
From other 1,426 1,202 936 1,070 1,117 1,218 954 1,133 961 861
To economic immigrants – p.a.* 10,197 8,852 8,178 10,879 11,663 16,037 17,358 22,782 25,225 27,087
From foreign worker 655 621 727 1,517 1,658 2,754 3,201 4,335 4,902 5,021
From foreign student 2,338 2,234 2,062 2,696 3,041 3,587 3,612 4,373 4,159 4,060
From humanitarian population 581 430 100 93 88 77 112 126 99 103
From other 1,633 1,566 1,429 2,608 2,465 3,513 3,230 4,189 4,081 3,882
To economic immigrants – s.d.** 5,207 4,851 4,318 6,914 7,252 9,931 10,155 13,023 13,241 13,066
From foreign worker 10 10 6 17 16 34 27 27 31 35
From foreign student 37 27 8 22 48 36 32 16 18 19
From humanitarian population 13,544 11,006 11,496 16,165 20,478 16,545 12,377 7,398 7,674 9,901
From other 41 45 14 46 34 59 39 48 35 49
To refugees 13,632 11,088 11,524 16,250 20,576 16,674 12,475 7,489 7,758 10,004
From foreign worker 0 87 184 73 56 116 200 220 274 209
From foreign student 0 191 382 206 226 316 367 457 404 234
From humanitarian population 156 2,145 4,935 4,333 4,310 6,385 6,965 5,914 6,259 5,826
From other 0 1,174 2,810 1,454 1,195 1,439 1,759 2,010 1,806 1,276
To other immigrants 156 3,597 8,311 6,066 5,787 8,256 9,291 8,601 8,743 7,545
To category not stated 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 2 1 6
From foreign worker 13,068 9,506 8,299 11,830 13,762 18,487 19,936 27,398 31,522 32,827
From foreign student 6,252 5,792 5,869 7,596 8,353 10,206 10,473 11,010 9,456 8,667
From humanitarian population 17,787 15,906 17,019 21,284 25,954 24,100 20,547 14,532 15,084 16,844
From other 10,477 10,667 12,105 13,707 11,751 13,238 13,849 15,676 14,731 13,221
To permanent resident 47,584 41,871 43,292 54,417 59,820 66,031 64,805 68,616 70,793 71,559

*principal applicants
**spouses and dependants

Percentage distribution
Transition 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
From foreign worker 14.4 9.4 5.3 6.1 7.6 8.0 7.2 8.0 7.5 6.4
From foreign student 3.6 3.0 3.2 3.5 3.5 2.9 3.1 2.9 2.5 1.8
From humanitarian population 5.2 3.8 0.8 1.1 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2
From other 15.5 16.0 16.0 15.7 11.6 10.6 12.1 12.1 11.1 10.0
To family class 38.6 32.2 25.3 26.3 24.3 22.9 24.0 24.4 22.4 19.4
From foreign worker 11.7 11.6 11.7 12.7 12.5 15.6 18.3 25.3 29.7 32.1
From foreign student 4.5 4.9 4.7 5.1 4.9 6.6 6.9 6.1 4.4 4.3
From humanitarian population 2.2 1.7 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
From other 3.0 2.9 2.2 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.5 1.7 1.4 1.2
To economic immigrants – p.a.* 21.4 21.1 18.9 20.0 19.5 24.3 26.8 33.2 35.6 37.9
From foreign worker 1.4 1.5 1.7 2.8 2.8 4.2 4.9 6.3 6.9 7.0
From foreign student 4.9 5.3 4.8 5.0 5.1 5.4 5.6 6.4 5.9 5.7
From humanitarian population 1.2 1.0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
From other 3.4 3.7 3.3 4.8 4.1 5.3 5.0 6.1 5.8 5.4
To economic immigrants – s.d.** 10.9 11.6 10.0 12.7 12.1 15.0 15.7 19.0 18.7 18.3
From foreign worker 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
From foreign student 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
From humanitarian population 28.5 26.3 26.6 29.7 34.2 25.1 19.1 10.8 10.8 13.8
From other 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
To refugees 28.6 26.5 26.6 29.9 34.4 25.3 19.3 10.9 11.0 14.0
From foreign worker 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.3
From foreign student 0.0 0.5 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.3
From humanitarian population 0.3 5.1 11.4 8.0 7.2 9.7 10.7 8.6 8.8 8.1
From other 0.0 2.8 6.5 2.7 2.0 2.2 2.7 2.9 2.6 1.8
To other immigrants 0.3 8.6 19.2 11.1 9.7 12.5 14.3 12.5 12.4 10.5
To category not stated 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
From foreign worker 27.5 22.7 19.2 21.7 23.0 28.0 30.8 39.9 44.5 45.9
From foreign student 13.1 13.8 13.6 14.0 14.0 15.5 16.2 16.0 13.4 12.1
From humanitarian population 37.4 38.0 39.3 39.1 43.4 36.5 31.7 21.2 21.3 23.5
From other 22.0 25.5 28.0 25.2 19.6 20.0 21.4 22.8 20.8 18.5
To permanent resident 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Canada – Transition from temporary to permanent resident status by previous yearly status

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Canada – Transition from temporary to permanent resident status by category

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