Canada deported 366 Nigerians between January and October 2025, as the country stepped up immigration enforcement to its highest level in more than 10 years.
Official figures from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) which was last updated in November, 2025 also show that 974 Nigerians are currently marked as “removal in progress,” meaning they are waiting to be deported.
Within this period, Nigeria ranked ninth among the top 10 countries whose citizens were deported from Canada. It also ranked fifth among countries with the highest number of people awaiting removal.
Records show that the number of Nigerians deported from Canada has changed over the years. In 2019, 339 Nigerians were removed. The number dropped to 302 in 2020, 242 in 2021, and 199 in 2022. Nigeria did not appear among the top deported countries in 2023 and 2024. However, in 2025, Nigeria returned to the list, with 366 deportations recorded in just 10 months.
The increase is part of a wider immigration crackdown in Canada. The CBSA is now deporting close to 400 people every week, the highest level seen in more than a decade. In the 2024–2025 financial year, Canada deported 18,048 people, spending about $78 million on the process.
The latest figures show that 83 per cent of all removals are people whose refugee or asylum applications were rejected while criminal cases account for around four per cent of the total number.
