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Latest Canada IRCC Processing Time

Uduak Abasi
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This article is the most recent official IRCC processing time and compares the past week’s processing times. Endeavor carefully read through the details below to understand what these processing timeframes mean. Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Canada boosted its processing device in early 2022 to provide practical information in regular processing periods instead of service criteria. Preliminary to that, it only demonstrated IRCC service criteria, which portrays Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Canada’s objectives of expedited application processing service criteria, which are rarely modified. So many citizenship and permanent residency services currently offer processing timelines for 80 percent of applications, revised weekly according to statistics from the previous six months. These revisions provide additional exact details that record processing volume and any alterations to IRCC’s capacity to take care of applications.

Processing duration for temporary residence applications was well reworked weekly according to statistics from the past weeks, 8 to 16 weeks. These processing schedules are planned to provide prospective immigrants and visa candidates in Canada an option of how long it will take to decide whether to approve their application. This does not mean that your application will be processed within the duration of time. Provided that it is according to the processing durations of 80 percent of candidates, the processing duration for your application may be extended or shorter than declared.

Permanent Residence And Citizenship

This includes the application type, the current processing time, and changes since August 9 and August 2.

  1. Citizenship grant: current processing time – 18 months, changes since August 2: no change, changes since August 9: no changes
  2. Citizenship certificate (proof of citizenship): current processing time- 10 months; Changes since August 9 – no change; Changes since August 2 – no change
  3. Resumption of citizenship: current processing time – 30 months; Changes since August 9 – no change; Changes since August 2 – no change
  4. Renunciation of citizenship: current processing time – 14 months; Changes since August 9 – no change
  5. Search of citizenship records: current processing time – 15 months; Changes since August 9 – no change; Changes since August 2 – no change
  6. New PR card: current processing time – 36 days; changes since August 9 – 2 days +; Changes since August 2 – 7 days +
  7. PR card renewals: current processing time – 83 days; changes since August 9: – 8 days; Changes since August 2: – 12 days

Citizenship Certificate: Applications from nations other than the United States and Canada can be delayed. Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Canada is issuing AOR letters or messages to national candidates who made applications offline or online between July 13, 2023.

Family Sponsorship

Application type, current processing time, change since August 9, and evolution since August 2.

  1. Spouse or common-law partner residing outside Canada (decision to live outside Quebec): current processing time – 13 months; Change since August 9 – no change; Change since August 2: – 1 month
  2. Spouse or common-law partner residing Outside Canada (plan to live in Quebec): 24 months; Change since August 9 – no change; Change since August 2 – no change
  3. Spouse or common-law partner residing inside Canada (plan to live outside Quebec): 10 months; Changes since August 9 – No change; Change since August 2: -1 month.
  4. Spouse or common-law partner residing inside Canada (plan to live in Quebec): 25 months; changes since August 9: no change; Change since August 2: – 1 month.
  5. Parents or Grandparents PR (plan to reside outside Quebec): 23 months; Change since August 9 – no change; Change since August 2 – no change
  6. Parents or Grandparents PR (plan to reside in Quebec): 45 months; change since August 9 – no change; Change since August 2 – no change.

Note: IRCC is currently documenting various processing times for family sponsorship requests for Quebec and Canada.

Canadian Passport

Application types, current processing time, and changes from last week

  1. In-Canada New passport (Regular application presented in person at service Canada Centre): Passport services: current processing time – 10 working days; Change from last week – No change
  2. In-Canada New Passport (Regular request presented by mail to service Canada Centre): Current processing time – 20 working days; Change from last week – no change
  3. In-Canada Urgent Pick up: Current processing time – by the end of the next working day; Change from last week – No change
  4. In-Canada express pick up: Current processing time – 2 to 9 working days; change from last week – no change
  5. Regular passport application mailed from outside Canada: Current processing time – 20 business days; change from last week – no change.

Permanent Residency (Economic Class)

Application type, current processing time, change since August 9, and change since August 2


  1. Canadian Experience Class: Current processing time – 5 months; Change since August 9 – no change; Change since August 2: +1 month
  2. Federal Skilled Worker Program: Current processing time – 5 months; Change since August 9 – no change; Change since August 2: -1 month.
  3. Federal Trades Skilled Program: Current processing time – not updated by IRCC since March 1 as there could be no request in processing for FSTP currently; Changes since August – No change; Change since August 2 – no change
  4. Provincial Nominee Program Through Express Entry: Current Processing time – 9 months; Changes since August 9 – no change; changes since August 2 – no change
  5. Non-Express Entry: Current processing time – 17 months; Changes on August 9: no changes; Changes on August 2: -1 month
  6. Quebec Skilled Workers: Current processing time – 17 months; Changes since August 9 -no change; Changes since August 2: – 3 months
  7. Quebec business class entrepreneurs (Quebec) investors (Quebec) self-employed persons (Quebec): Currents processing time – 64 months; Changes since August 9 – no change; Changes since August 2: – 2 months
  8. Federal Self-employed: Current processing time – 50 months; Changes since August 9: No change; Changes since August 2 – no change
  9. Atlantic Immigration Program: Current processing time – 6 months; changes since August 9 – No change; Change since August 2: +1 month
  10. Start-up Visa: Current processing time – 37 months; Changes since August 9 – no change; Changes since August 2: no change

Temporary Residence Visa

Application type, Current processing time, Change since August 9, and change since August 2

  1. Visitor Visa Outside Canada: Current processing time: Differs by nation – India – 29 days, Nigeria – 471 days, United States – 44 days, Pakistan – 53 days, Philippines – 34 days, UAE – 80 days, Bangladesh – 49 days, Sri Lanka – 38 days, and united kingdom – 142 days.
  • Change since August 9: +1 day for India, -151 days for Nigeria, -10 days for United States, +2 days for Pakistan, -3 days for Philippines, +4 days for UAE, -1 day for Bangladesh, +2 days for Sri Lanka, and -108 days for the United Kingdom.
  • Change since August 2: No change for India, -181 days for Nigeria, -11 days for United States, +2 days for Pakistan, -4 days for Philippines, -7 days for UAE, -3 days for Bangladesh, +1 day for Sri Lanka, and -147 days for the United Kingdom.
  1. Visitor Visa Inside Canada: Current Processing time – online: 17 days, paper-based: 34 days,
  • Change since August 9: -1 day for online, +3 days for paper-based requests
  • Change since August 2: no change for online, -1 day for paper-based applications.
  1. Parents Or Grandparents Super Visa: Current processing time – Differs by nations: India 50 days, Nigeria – 154 days, United States – 133, Pakistan – 158, Philippines – 210 days, UAE – 315 days, Bangladesh – 189 – 218 days, Sri Lanka – 114 days, United Kingdom – 423 days.
  • Changes since August 9: -2 days for India, +13 days for Nigeria, No change for the United States, No change for Pakistan, -11 days for Philippines, -151 days for UAE, -29 days for Bangladesh, -19 days for Sri Lanka, and +12 days for the United Kingdom.
  • Changes since August 2: -3 days for India, +13 days for Nigeria, No change for United States, +5 days for Pakistan, +9 days for Philippines, -192 days for UAE, -55 days for Bangladesh, -19 days for Sri Lanka, and +16 days for the UK.
  1. Study permit outside Canada: Current processing time – 7 weeks
  • Changes since August 9: No change
  • Changes since August 2: No change
  1. Visitor Extension (Visitor Record): current processing time – online: 83 days, paper-based: 123 days.
  • Change since August 9: -6 days for online, -2 days for paper-based
  • Change since August 2: -30 days for online, -1 day for paper-based
  1. Study permit inside Canada: Current processing time – 8 weeks
  • Change since August 9: +1 week
  • Change since August 2: +1 week
  1. Study Permit Extension: Current processing time – online: 71 days, paper-based: 101 days
  • Changes since August 9: Online: -3 days, Paper-based: -21 days
  • Changes since August 2: Online -4 days, paper-based: -21 days.
  1. Work permit outside Canada: Current processing time – differs by nation: India – 8 weeks, Nigeria – 11 weeks, United States – 3 weeks, Pakistan – 16 weeks, Philippines – 11 weeks, UAE – 12 weeks, Bangladesh – 7 weeks, Sri Lanka – 9 weeks, United kingdom – 2 weeks.
  • Change since August 9: No change for India, -2 weeks for Nigeria, no change for United States, -3 weeks for Pakistan, +2 weeks for Philippines, -4 weeks for UAE, -1 weeks for Bangladesh, no change for Sri Lanka, -5 weeks for UK.
  • Change since August 2: No change for India, -7 weeks for Nigeria, -5 weeks for United States, -2 weeks for Pakistan, +2 weeks for Philippines, -5 weeks for UAE, -1 weeks for Bangladesh, No change for Sri Lanka, -8 weeks for UK.
  1. Work Permit Inside Canada: Current processing time – online: 141 days, paper-based – 19 days
  • Change since August 9: -4 days for online, +4 days for paper-based
  • Change since August 2: -5 days for online, +3 days for paper-based
  1. International Experience Canada (current season): Current processing time – 9 weeks
  • Changes since August 9: -2 weeks
  • Changes since August 2: -2 weeks
  1. Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP): Current processing time – 84 days
  • Changes since August 9: +7 days
  • Changes since August 2: +15 days
  1. Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA): Current processing time – 5 minutes
  • Changes since August 9: No change
  • Changes since August 2: No change

Note: Presently, IRCC is putting in first work permit requests for preference jobs only. If you are not pursuing jobs in a vital career, your processing duration may be extended.

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