Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
What Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: 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, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$5.34B
spent by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
1.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?
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, 2025-26
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Utilities, materials and supplies
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Other subsidies and payments
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Information
Repair and maintenance
Internal revenues
External revenues
$3.75B
$1.22B
$710M
$71.7M
$57.5M
$53.8M
$27.2M
$9.3M
$9M
$3.8M
-$3.7M
-$573M
Total: $5.34B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$1.22B
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
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, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada paid, program by program: $3.75B in all, against $3.75B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Settlement ProgramPayments | Contribution | $1,063,190,094 |
| Health benefits in relation to the Interim Federal Health ProgramPayments | Other transfer | $1,021,387,571 |
| Grant for the Canada-Quebec Accord on ImmigrationPayments | Grant | $867,335,000 |
| Grant for the Interim Housing Assistance ProgramPayments | Grant | $378,084,640 |
| Resettlement AssistancePayments | Contribution | $261,942,948 |
| Grant for asylum claimants in TorontoPayments | Grant | $62,900,000 |
| Grant for the Resettlement Assistance ProgramPayments | Grant | $43,518,100 |
| Grant for Settlement ProgramPayments | Grant | $24,715,143 |
| Grant for International Migration Capacity Building ProgramPayments | Grant | $16,500,000 |
| International Organization for MigrationPayments | Contribution | $4,694,634 |
| Contribution for Francophone Immigration Support ProgramPayments | Contribution | $4,570,692 |
| Global Assistance to Irregular MigrantsPayments | Contribution | $914,750 |
| Grant for Francophone Immigration Support ProgramPayments | Grant | $136,763 |
| 13 programs | $3,749,890,335 | |
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 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- 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.
