New Permanent Residents Citizenship Note that in this section on citizenship, “source country” refers to the country of birth. In other sections of The Monitor that discuss permanent residents, foreign workers and foreign students, “source country” refers to the country of last permanent residence. | Citizenship grants increased by 39% in the second quarter, to 61,907. This brought the total for the first half of 2004 to 118,082, representing 51% more grants than in the first half of 2003. These large increases followed the flow of immigrants to Canada in the years 2000 and 2001. These two years saw significantly higher levels of immigration than in the years leading up to 2000. In general, many immigrants will take the earliest opportunity to apply for Canadian citizenship, that is, after three years of residency in Canada as a landed immigrant. The number of citizenship grants will therefore often reflect the level of immigration three to four years earlier. The top source countries for new Canadian citizens (China, India, Pakistan and the Philippines) were all leading countries of immigrants to Canada in recent years. During the second quarter, Sri Lanka ranked fifth for citizenship grants, after ranking twelfth for the year 2003. Four countries among the top 10 more than doubled the number of new citizens in the current quarter. These were India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Jamaica (see table 10). 
Table 10
Citizenship Grants by Top Ten Source Countries | COUNTRY | 2003 | | 2004 | | Difference | | Total | Rank | Q1 | Q2 | YTD | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | YTD | YTD
Rank | YTD 2004/
YTD 2003 | | China, People’s Republic of | 18,900 | 1 | 4,168 | 6,241 | 10,409 | 4,586 | 3,905 | 6,630 | 8,454 | 15,084 | 1 | 45% | | India | 13,380 | 2 | 2,972 | 3,475 | 6,447 | 3,618 | 3,315 | 5,647 | 7,397 | 13,044 | 2 | 102% | | Pakistan | 6,233 | 4 | 1,587 | 1,769 | 3,356 | 1,470 | 1,407 | 2,466 | 3,841 | 6,307 | 3 | 88% | | Philippines | 7,766 | 3 | 1,881 | 2,481 | 4,362 | 1,796 | 1,608 | 2,872 | 2,641 | 5,513 | 4 | 26% | | Sri Lanka | 3,222 | 12 | 903 | 779 | 1,682 | 700 | 840 | 1,612 | 1,972 | 3,584 | 5 | 113% | | South Korea | 4,147 | 7 | 839 | 1,175 | 2,014 | 1,000 | 1,133 | 1,663 | 1,771 | 3,434 | 6 | 71% | | England | 3,278 | 11 | 513 | 834 | 1,347 | 832 | 1,099 | 1,502 | 1,638 | 3,140 | 7 | 133% | | United States | 3,604 | 9 | 638 | 1,101 | 1,739 | 889 | 976 | 1,532 | 1,540 | 3,072 | 8 | 77% | | Jamaica | 2,868 | 15 | 727 | 631 | 1,358 | 642 | 868 | 1,608 | 1,351 | 2,959 | 9 | 118% | | Iran | 4,888 | 5 | 1,135 | 1,640 | 2,775 | 1,083 | 1,030 | 1,368 | 1,429 | 2,797 | 10 | 1% | | Total – Top Ten Only | 68,286 | | 15,363 | 20,126 | 35,489 | 16,616 | 16,181 | 26,900 | 32,034 | 58,934 | | 66% | | Total – Other Countries | 79,649 | 18,047 | 24,418 | 42,465 | 18,408 | 18,776 | 29,275 | 29,873 | 59,148 | 39% | | Total | 147,935 | 33,410 | 44,544 | 77,954 | 35,024 | 34,957 | 56,175 | 61,907 | 118,082 | 51% |
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