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Fees for Permanent Resident applications will then rise on a biennial basis at a pace commensurate with inflation.

Regulations Amending the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (Amendment of Certain Fees): These Regulations come into force at 09:00:00 a.m. Eastern daylight time on April 30, 2020, but if they are registered after that time, they come into force at 09:00:00 a.m. Eastern daylight time on the day after the day on which they are registered.

During the first phase, in 2020-21, the Right of Permanent Residence Fee (a privilege fee) will be increased from $490 to $500. As the increase in the Right of Permanent Residence Fee is focused on those who successfully become permanent residents, the intent of this increase is to augment the capacity to defray costs of the permanent residence regulatory scheme, which provides economic opportunity, access to a wide range of programs and services provided by both federal and provincial Canadian governments, and is a pathway to Canadian citizenship.

In this first phase, application fees will also increase by 50% for principal applicants and their accompanying family members in all Economic Class programs, with the exception of the two 2019 Federal Caregiver pilot programs, the Home Child-Care Provider Pilot and Home Support Worker Pilot, to account for structural underpayment for services over the years and emphasize a higher cost recovery rate for economic programs based on capacity to pay. These classes are the Federal High Skilled programs under Express Entry; provincial nominees; business programs; the Atlantic Immigration pilot program, Rural and Northern Immigration pilot program, the Agri-Food Immigration pilot program, and Quebec’s skilled worker program.

During the second phase, beginning in 2022-2023, all application fees in the Economic, Family and Humanitarian classes, as well as the Right of Permanent Residence Fee, will be increased on a biennial basis to ensure that fees remain consistent with inflation.

The fees for permanent resident cards, permanent resident travel documents and certification or replacement immigration documents will not increase. 

Description

The Regulations are amended such that

• Starting in 2020-21, permanent resident processing fees for Economic class applicants increase as follows:

• Fees for principal applicants of the Economic business class (including self-employed, start-up visa, Quebec investor, Quebec entrepreneur, and Quebec self-employed) will increase from $1,050 to $1,575 (an increase of 50%).

• Fees for principal applicants of the Economic non-business class will go from  $550 to $825 (an increase of 50%). Note: this increase will not apply to fees for principal applicants and their families in the Caregivers programs, which will remain unchanged.

• Fees for spouses or common-law partners of all Economic classes will go from $550 to $825 (an increase of 50%).

• Fees for dependent children of all Economic classes will go from $150 to $225  (an increase of 50%).

• The right of permanent resident fee will increase from $490 to $500 (an increase of 2%).

• Starting in 2022-2023, on the day of the two-year anniversary of the coming into force of these Regulations and every two years thereafter, selected permanent resident processing fees will be increased every two years by the applicable Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase, rounded to the nearest $5. The approximation assumption being that the CPI is 2% per year on average, but the fees would nevertheless be subject to inflation calculated cumulatively from the time of coming into force. The following prospective fee increases below are provided for illustrative purposes only:

• Permanent resident processing fees for all economic business class principal applicants (including self-employed, start-up visa, Quebec investor, Quebec entrepreneur, and Quebec self-employed) will be increased to approximately $1,640 (projected) in 2022-2023, to $1,705 in 2024-2025, and so on.

• Permanent resident processing fees for most economic non-business class principal applicants (including federal skilled workers, federal skilled trades,       provincial nominee, Canadian experience class, the Ministerial Instruction economic immigration classes [currently, Atlantic Immigration class, Rural and Northern Immigration class, Agri-Food Immigration class], and Quebec skilled workers), will be increased to approximately $860 in 2022-2023, to $895 in 2024-2025, and so on. Permanent resident processing fees for principal applicants (as well as the spouses or common-law partners and dependants) in the Home Child Care and Home Support Worker caregiving classes will be increased by the applicable CPI increase.

• Permanent resident processing fees for spouses or common-law partners of all Economic classes will be increased to approximately $860 in 2022-2023, to       $895 in 2024-2025, and so on.

• Permanent resident processing fees for dependent children of all Economic classes will be increased to approximately $235 in 2022-2023, to $245 in 2024-2025, and so on.

• Permanent resident processing fees for all noneconomic class principal applicants (including the family, protected persons, and humanitarian and       compassionate class applicants) will remain at the current rate of $550 until 2022-2023, when that fee will be increased biennially and rounded to the nearest $5, to approximately $570 in 2022-2023, to $595 in 2024-2025, and so on. Permanent resident processing fees for all family members of principal applicants (spouses, partners, and parents and  grandparents, as applicable) will remain at the current rate of $550 until 2022-2023 when that fee will be increased biennially and rounded to the nearest $5, to approximately $570 in 2022-2023, to $595 in 2024-2025, and so on.

• Permanent resident processing fees for dependent children and their family members will remain at the current rate of $150 until 2022-23 where they will be       increased by the applicable CPI rounded to the nearest $5 on a biennial basis to $155, to $160 in 2024-2025, and so on.

• Starting in 2022-23, the processing fee for processing an application by a person as a member of the permit holder class to remain in Canada as a permanent resident will be increased to $340 and then increased by the applicable CPI rounded to the nearest $5 multiplier every two years thereafter.

• Starting in 2022-2023, the fee to sponsor a member of the family class will be increased to $80 and then increased by the applicable CPI rounded to the nearest $5 multiplier every two years thereafter.

• Starting in 2022-2023, the Right of Permanent Residence Fee (a privilege fee) will be increased to approximately $520, and then increased by the applicable CPI rounded to the nearest $5 multiplier every two years thereafter.

http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2020/2020-04-01/html/sor-dors45-eng.html

(Source: Government of Canada)