Initiative overview
This initiative is intended to provide the following benefits:
- Economic prosperity by supporting better economic outcomes.
- Regionalisation of immigration by contributing to a slight redistribution of economic immigrants.
- Provision of customised location recommendations to immigrants aligned with their location preferences.
The tool will go through a two-year study to validate the results by assessing whether clients follow the recommendations provided by the tool.
In the future, the initiative is expected to be expanded to support other lines of business at IRCC for multiple classes of applicants. The use of an algorithmic tool that generates personalised recommendations based on multiple weighted variables and historical information could have several applications across the GoC.
Results, outcomes and impacts
The tool is in soft launch, and the AI model results are being monitored, validated and optimised for the specific IRCC GeoMatch use case.
Over two years, the goal is to issue 50,000 recommendations to selected applicants to evaluate impacts on integration and earnings.
The initiative will conduct post-arrival surveys with each applicant who used the tool to validate whether applicants followed the recommendation and to gather further feedback on the tool.
Challenges and lessons learned
AI models of this specific nature (customised machine learning) require significant data to create consistently valid and optimised responses.



























