Term: Immigration Admission Category

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2022-12-08

Definition:

This is the categorization of immigrants by the Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) based on the circumstances of their admission to Canada as Permanent Residents.

This term may also be referred to as the "immigration class".

Individuals may be admitted as immigrants to Canada under one of the following categories: Economic immigrant, Immigrant sponsored by family, Refugee or Other immigrant, as described on the Statistics Canada website (Statistics Canada website - Classification of admission category of immigrant - https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getVD&TVD=323293&CVD=323294&CLV=0&MLV=4&D=1 - accessed September 9, 2022).

For more detailed information on Immigration Admission Category, including the data sources and methodology used to develop the concept, please see the Immigration Admission Category concept.

Related concepts 

• Immigration / Migration Overview - Links to Immigration / Migration Data and Related Concepts and Glossary Terms
• Immigration Admission Category
• Refugee

Related terms 

• Forced Migration / Unvoluntary Migration
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Permanent Resident Database
• Provincial Nominee
• Refugee
• Voluntary Migration

Links 

• Statistics Canada website - Classification of admission category of immigrant

References 

• Urquia M, Walld R, Prior H, Detillieux G, Eze N, Koseva I. The Diversity of Immigrants to Manitoba, Migration Dynamics and Basic Healthcare Service Use. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2020. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)

Term used in 

• Ewesesan R, Chartier MJ, Nickel NC, Wall-Wieler E, Urquia ML. Psychosocial and behavioral health indicators among immigrant and non-immigrant recent mothers. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2022;22(1):612. [Abstract] (View)
• Urquia ML, Walld R, Wanigaratne S, Eze ND, Azimaee M, McDonald JT, Guttmann A. Linking national immigration data to provincial repositories: The case of Canada. Int J Popul Data Sci 2021;6(1):1412. [Abstract] (View)