Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) welcomed 35,600 permanent residents and processed 45,100 immigration applications in June. This has been the highest number of applications processed in one month so far. IRCC’s Minister Mendicino announced that Canada ‘continue to honour the commitments to accept 401,000 new permanent residents this year, and things are moving in the right direction.’ This processing speed will be sufficient to bring in 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021, which will be the highest annual number of new immigrants accepted in Canadian history.