Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
What Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship; the overview shows it in that ministry.
What Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada does
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is the federal department responsible for managing immigration policy, issuing passports, processing visas and permanent residency applications, and supporting newcomers to Canada. It plays a central role in shaping Canada's immigration system, refugee protection policies, and pathways to citizenship.
Spending, 2019-20
Net spending, 2019-20
$3.06B
spent by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2019-20
1.0%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spend its budget in 2019-20?
By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.
Spending by standard object, 2019-20
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Utilities, materials and supplies
Rentals
Other subsidies and payments
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Information
Repair and maintenance
Internal revenues
External revenues
$1.83B
$715M
$660M
$43.7M
$28.8M
$27M
$17.4M
$10.4M
$8M
$6.3M
-$3.9M
-$280M
Total: $3.06B.
Spending by program, 2019-20
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $3.06B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$1.4B
$566M
$211M
$142M
$108M
$101M
$78.8M
$66.8M
$62M
$54.6M
$53.5M
$39M
$31.7M
$30.6M
$28.2M
$24.7M
$19.8M
$15.7M
$14.1M
$7.4M
$2M
$792K
Workforce, 2019-20
Full-time equivalents
8,038
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$715M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$89K
personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents
A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.
Transfer payment programs, 2019-20
The grants, contributions and other transfers Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada paid, program by program: $1.83B in all, against $1.83B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Settlement ProgramPayments | Contribution | $773,742,211 |
| Grant for the Canada-Quebec Accord on ImmigrationPayments | Grant | $591,622,000 |
| Grant for the Interim Housing Assistance ProgramPayments | Grant | $342,520,000 |
| Resettlement AssistancePayments | Contribution | $112,362,155 |
| Grant for Migration Policy DevelopmentPayments | Grant | $3,999,517 |
| International Organization for MigrationPayments | Contribution | $2,077,075 |
| Global Assistance to Irregular MigrantsPayments | Contribution | $1,342,284 |
| 7 programs | $1,827,665,242 | |
Contracts of $10,000 and under
Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.
| Calendar year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $365,002 | $1,003,541 | $0 | $5,804,407 | $7,172,950 |
| 2024 | $429,319 | $386,252 | $0 | $10,438,737 | $11,254,309 |
| 2023 | $534,029 | $932,652 | $0 | $13,493,219 | $14,959,899 |
| 2022 | $838,600 | $704,979 | $0 | $7,595,848 | $9,139,428 |
| 2021 | $1,226,532 | $994,254 | $0 | $5,849,169 | $8,069,955 |
| 2020 | $1,285,625 | $850,964 | $0 | $5,583,857 | $7,720,445 |
| 2019 | $4,119,663 | $1,401,205 | $0 | $7,681,491 | $13,202,359 |
| 2018 | $3,897,477 | $1,525,461 | $0 | $6,668,996 | $12,091,934 |
| 2017 | $4,537,691 | $1,920,230 | $0 | $4,294,448 | $10,752,370 |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s share of federal net spending
Other organizations in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2020, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
