Passport program statistics

Passport statistics are updated once a week. Our fiscal year runs from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.

Current year to date values on this page are calculated from April 1 to September 17, 2023.

Applications received

Last updated: September 22, 2023

Week of September 11 to September 17	Week of September 4 to September 10	Difference	Year to date
92,497	70,587	+ 21,910	1,855,818

The number of applications received is an estimated value that includes a mix of client requests (for example, complete and incomplete applications for a passport, documents from incomplete applications, requests to cancel passports as a result of loss, theft or death, etc.).

Passports issued

Last updated: September 22, 2023

Week of September 11 to September 17	Week of September 4 to September 10	Difference	Year to date
74,234	63,956	+ 10,278	1,781,736

Passports issued to Canadians living in Canada and the United States.

Passport Call Centre

Last updated: September 22, 2023

Average wait time

Week of September 11 to September 17	Week of September 4 to September 10	Difference
5 minutes 40 seconds	10 minutes 49 seconds	- 5 minutes 9 seconds

Application processing

Last updated: September 22, 2023

Month	Applications received	Passports issued
April	209,548	210,171
May	365,628	349,351
June	358,365	373,784
July	351,006	330,154
August	388,196	366,584
September	183,075	151,692
Year to date total	1,855,818	1,781,736

Last year’s application processing statistics, from April 2022 to March 2023

Month	Applications received	Passports issued
April	261,183	134,290
May	281,055	160,204
June	266,027	203,425
July	234,552	206,744
August	265,168	240,980
September	225,356	248,705
October	265,507	298,384
November	279,686	389,523
December	238,006	336,432
January	371,842	357,480
February	337,201	375,516
March	403,978	394,540
Total	3,429,561	3,346,223