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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

How Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship spent its budget in fiscal year 2020-21, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.

Department Spending

In FY 2020-21,

$3.4B

was spent by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

In FY 2020-21,

0.5%

of federal spending was by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship

How did Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship spend its budget in 2020-21?

Spending by entity, FY 2020-21

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Immigration and Refugee Board

$3.16B

$244.8M

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship’s share of federal spending

Percentage of federal spending, 2014–2025

Line items

Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.

Transfer payments
CategoryDescriptionAmount
ContributionsSettlement Program$786,481,494
GrantsGrant for the Canada-Quebec Accord on Immigration$650,270,000
GrantsGrant for the Interim Housing Assistance Program$163,000,000
ContributionsResettlement Assistance$68,066,132
GrantsGrant for Settlement Program$14,433,955
GrantsGrant for the Resettlement Assistance Program$12,000,000
ContributionsInternational Organization for Migration$2,105,966
GrantsGrant for International Migration Capacity Building Program$1,699,449
ContributionsGlobal Assistance to Irregular Migrants$1,141,197
9 line items · all figures in dollars

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.