Canada Updates Express Entry Categories for 2025

Key Points  

• Canada’s 2025 Express Entry program introduces new categories, including education and French language skills, to address labor shortages and support economic growth 

Canada Announces 2025 Express Entry Updates 

Canada announced the 2025 Express Entry categories, which include a new education category, to align the selection of federal economic immigrants with Canada’s long-term labor shortages. 

For 2025, the focus of the federal economic class draws will be to invite candidates with experience working in Canada (Canadian Experience Class) to apply for permanent residence. 

Additionally, to meet Francophone immigration targets and address the acute needs in health, trades and education, IRCC will conduct category-based invitation rounds in the following categories: 

• Strong French language skills, or 
• Work experience in the following fields:
  • Health care and social services, such as family physicians, nurse practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists and chiropractors 
  • Trades, such as carpenters, plumbers and contractors 
  • Education, such as teachers, childcare educators and instructors of persons with disabilities 

The government will also continue to support economic growth through Francophone immigration outside Quebec by prioritizing candidates with strong French language proficiency in Express Entry.