This year, Canada has expelled a record number of Indian nationals—a level that even exceeds the figures from 2024. According to a year-end statement from the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), 2,831 Indians were deported in 2025.
Out of 18,969 Indians, the CBSA enforced the deportation of 2,831 in the first 10 months of this year, as reported.
What is the cause?
The number of Indians being removed has only gone up. For instance, compared to 2024 (1,997) and 2025 (2,831), just 625 Indian nationals were deported from Canada in 2019.
It was not made clear why so many Indians were being deported from the nation. However, with 15,605 removals, the category of non-compliance pertaining to refugee claims had the greatest number.
Additionally, the total number of removals grew from 17,357 in 2024 to 18,785 in 2025.
Indians also had the highest number of “removal in progress” (6,515 out of 29,542).
However, with 3,972 in 2025 and 3,683 in 2024, the Mexican cohort remained at the top of the enforced removal statistics.
With regard to refugee claims, the largest number of non-compliance was 15,605. “Of these, 841 were subject to serious inadmissibility (national security, organized crime, human rights violations, and criminality),” according to the CBSA’s announcement.
According to a previous story, Indians make up the largest group of “asylum seekers.”
At least five people have reportedly been deported from Canada because of their involvement in violence related to extortion.
Additionally, according to CBSA, its global liaison officers intervened in 5,889 situations to advise airlines not to let a passenger board an aircraft headed for Canada due to doubts about the legitimacy of their travel credentials.
Canada’s law enforcement agencies also want to get rid of criminals as quickly as possible.
The Peel Regional Police (PRP) first announced that it was “actively engaged with the Peel Crown Attorney’s Office and the Canada Border Services Agency, which will determine whether removal of accused foreign nationals from Canada may be pursued as part of the judicial process” in a press release in October.
Eight guys were arrested in relation to the suspected theft of 450 pieces of mail totaling more than 400,000 Canadian dollars.
In Canada, anti-immigrant sentiment is growing. A question about whether his government will prioritize deporting foreign offenders was similarly addressed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in October. “The short answer is yes, there are plans to make it faster, to make it better resources, and to improve the tracking,” Carney stated. That is a component of a larger set of changes we are implementing in Canada’s immigration system.
Even if the process of returning to Canada has become more costly this year, removal does not always preclude an individual from trying to do so.
The Canadian government declared in January that it would raise the price for anyone who had been deported and wished to return.
The CBSA then stated in its announcement that, regardless of destination, the fees will be changed under the new cost recovery structure from roughly 1,500 Canadian dollars to just over 12,800 Canadian dollars for escorted removals and just over 3,800 Canadian dollars for unescorted removals.
In April, the increased cost structure went into effect.
“Those who are being deported from Canada must cover their own travel expenses. To guarantee that the inadmissible individual is removed promptly, the CBSA pays the expenses in cases when they are unable or unwilling to pay. When someone who was evacuated at the government’s expense wants to return to Canada, the government of Canada reimburses the costs, according to the statement.