Mr. Speaker, regarding (a), the 20242025 expenditures are currently unavailable and will only be accessible once the public accounts have been tabled in the House of Commons, which is expected in the fall.
Program expenditures will be made public following the tabling of the Departmental Results Report, which is also expected in the fall.
With regard to (b), the full-time equivalent assigned by program will also be made public following the tabling of the Departmental Results Report.
With regard to (c), the start and end date of a permit determines the time period for which it is active. To ensure permits that either expired during the 2024-2025 fiscal year or were issued within that timeframe but remain valid beyond March 31, 2025, are not excluded, and to avoid double-counting individuals who held more than one valid study permit, IRCC is reporting the total number of unique individuals who held a valid study permit on any date over the course of the time period. At any point in time between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, there were approximately 1,317,680 persons who held a study permit, including extensions. Note that a permit may be valid for the duration of study and is not necessarily issued in the same year that it expires. As a result, this data includes instances where the permit was issued prior to this fiscal year.
With regard to (d), with few exceptions, foreign nationals travelling to Canada require either a Temporary Resident Visa, or TRV, or Electronic Travel Authorization, or eTA, prior to seeking entry to Canada. While the study permit, or SP, is approved in these instances prior to seeking entry, it is not confirmed, or issued, until arrival at the port of entry by CBSA. For extension applications where the client is already studying in Canada, the approval and confirmation/issuance take place at the same time.
Between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, IRCC revoked approximately 16,760 SPs, including extensions in person. Note that an eTA or TRV issued as part of a SP application that was revoked may not be affected by the SP revocation and are not included with this data. Additionally, this data does not include unique counts, which may mean that the number of individuals affected by a revocation could be lower.
Data for the reasons for revocation is not systemically tracked.