Canada deported 366 Nigerians between January and October 2025, as it intensified its immigration enforcement drive at the fastest pace in over a decade.
The figure, obtained from the Canada Border Services Agency removals programme statistics, also revealed that 974 Nigerians are currently in the “removal in progress” inventory, awaiting deportation from Canada.
The latest statistics, updated on November 25, 2025, showed that Nigeria ranked ninth among the top 10 nationalities deported from Canada in the under review, with 974 Nigerians in the fifth position among those awaiting removal.
A breakdown of the data showed that Nigerian deportations have fluctuated over the years.
In 2019, Canada removed 339 Nigerians; this dropped to 302 in 2020, then to 242 in 2021, and to 199 in 2022.
While Nigeria did not feature in the top 10 in 2023 and 2024, it returned to the list in 2025, recording 366 removals in just 10 months.
This represented an eight per cent increase compared to the 2019 figure.
The deportations come amid Canada’s aggressive immigration crackdown, with the CBSA now removing nearly 400 foreign nationals weekly, the highest rate in over a decade.
In fiscal year 2024-2025, Canada removed 18,048 people, spending approximately $78m in the process.
Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the CBSA is legally obligated to remove any foreign national with an enforceable removal order.
Individuals may be found inadmissible and face removal for several reasons, including security grounds, human or international rights violations, criminality, organised crime, health grounds, financial reasons, misrepresentation, and non-compliance with immigration rules.
The majority of those being removed, about 83 per cent, are failed refugee claimants whose asylum applications were denied.
Criminality accounts for about four per cent of removals.