US Immigrants to Canada
In 2025, 7,515 US citizens were admitted to Canada as permanent residents.
In 2025, 393,530 new immigrants were admitted to Canada, and USA immigrants accounted for 1.9% of the annual immigration intake.
From 2020 to 2025, 56,235 US citizens were admitted to Canada as permanent residents
USA Immigration to Canada in Recent Years
Since 2020, immigration from the United States to Canada has shown modest fluctuations amid the broader surge in overall Canadian immigration, with annual permanent resident admissions from the US typically ranging between roughly 11,000 and 18,000. In 2020, amid COVID-19 border restrictions, about 10,900 US immigrants obtained permanent residency, a figure that rose to 15,400 in 2021 and peaked near 18,300 in 2022 before settling around 15,800 in 2023. A notable shift in composition occurred, as a growing share of these inflows consisted of non-citizen US residents (often skilled workers or former temporary visa holders facing uncertainties in the US) and US citizens who had already been living in Canada on temporary permits, rather than traditional US-born citizens relocating directly.
Temporary migration, including work and study permits, also played a role, though US citizens represented a small and sometimes declining portion of Canada’s overall temporary foreign workforce. By 2025 and into early 2026, US permanent residency inflows declined further, dropping about 20 percent in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the prior year and reaching even lower levels early in 2026, marking some of the lowest figures since the pandemic began. This occurred even as Canada continued to admit hundreds of thousands of permanent residents annually from other countries, reflecting economic opportunities, policy pathways like Express Entry, and two-step transitions from temporary to permanent status as key drivers rather than purely political factors.
2016 Census
American immigrants are among the largest foreign-born groups in Canada
According to the 2016 Census, American immigrants (253,715) were the fifth largest foreign-born group in Canada.
US IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA (2016)
