CIMM – Processing Times by Line of Business – February 15 and 17, 2022

IRCC Overview - December 31, 2021

Permanent Resident

Application Type/ Immigration Category Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category Sub-Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category	Processing Time^{Footnote 1} (PR in months, PR Cards in Days) Last 12 months
Application Type/ Immigration Category Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category Sub-Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category	12 Month Period ending on Dec 2020	12 Month Period ending on Dec 2021	Service Standard (PR in months, PR Cards in Days)
Economic	Canadian Experience Class	Canadian Experience Class (EE)	8	7	6
	Canadian Experience Class	Canadian Experience Class (No EE)	64	27
	Caregiver Program	Caring For Children Program	18	33
		Home Child-Care Provider Pilot	7	23
		High Medical Needs Program	17	34
		Home Support Worker	7	24
		Interim Pathway Measure	10	27
		Live-in Caregiver Program	57	69
	Federal Business	Federal Business	22	38
	Federal Skilled Workers	Federal Skilled Workers (C-50)	66	31
		Federal Skilled Workers (EE)	13	26	6
		Federal Skilled Workers (Pre C-50)	-	-
	Ministerial Instruction Economic Programs/Pilot Programs	Atlantic Immigration Pilots	11	14
		Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot	-	-
		Out-of-status construction workers in the GTA	-	3
		Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot	-	11
		Start-up Visa	20	29
	TR to PR	TR to PR	-	7	6
	Provincial/Territorial Nominees	Provincial/Territorial Nominees (EE)	10	21	6
	Provincial/Territorial Nominees	Provincial/Territorial Nominees (No EE)	21	24	11
	Quebec Business	Quebec Business	49	64
	Quebec Skilled Workers	Quebec Skilled Workers	26	27	11
	Skilled Trades	Skilled Trades (EE)	16	23	6
	Skilled Trades	Skilled Trades (No EE)	-	28
Family Class	Parents and Grandparents	Parents and Grandparents	24	31
	Spouses, Partners, and Children (incl. FCH)	Domestic	15	17
	Spouses, Partners, and Children (incl. FCH)	Overseas	17	20	12
Humanitarian	Blended Visa Office-Referred	Blended Visa Office-Referred	-	-
	Dependants Abroad of Protected Persons	Dependants Abroad of Protected Persons	37	38
	Government-assisted Refugees^{Footnote 2}	Federal Government-assisted Refugees	19	25
	Government-assisted Refugees^{Footnote 2}	Quebec Government-assisted Refugees	21	33
	Humanitarian & Compassionate	Humanitarian & Compassionate	29	21
	Privately Sponsored Refugees	Privately Sponsored Refugees	17	34
	Protected Persons Landed In Canada	Protected Persons Landed In Canada	24	22
	Public Policy	Public Policy	36	30
Other	Other	Other	17	12

PR Cards

Application Type/ Immigration Category Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category Sub-Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category	Processing Time^{Footnote 1} (PR in months, PR Cards in Days) Last 12 months
Application Type/ Immigration Category Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category Sub-Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category	12 Month Period ending on Dec 2020	12 Month Period ending on Dec 2021	Service Standard (PR in months, PR Cards in Days)
Other	Phase I - New Cards	Phase I - New Cards	107	96	61
Other	Phase II - Renewals	Phase II - Renewals	130	122

Temporary Resident

Application Type/ Immigration Category Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category Sub-Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category	Processing Time^{Footnote 1} (TR in Days, eTA in Minutes)
Application Type/ Immigration Category Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category Sub-Group	Application Type/ Immigration Category	Past 8 weeks period ending Dec 2020	Past 8 weeks period ending Dec 2021	Service Standard (TR, eTA in Minutes)
Temporary Resident^{Footnote 3}	Workers	Work Permit Total	143	71	60
		Agriculture NOC^{Footnote 4}	27	35	60
		All Other Work Permit	122	94	60
		International Experience Canada (IEC)	552	47	56
		SAWP^{Footnote 4}	16	26	60
		Work Permit - Extension Total	105	112
		Agriculture NOC	99	111	120
		All Other Work Permit - Extension	105	113	120
	Students	Study Permit	145	77	60
	Students	Study Permit - Extension	83	57	120
	Visitors	eTA	1	2	5
		Temporary Resident Visa	76	62	14
		Visitor Record - Extension	195	135	120
Temporary Resident Pilot Programs	Work Permit Pilots/Public Policies/Special Programs	Total-WP-Pilots
		Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP)	21	-
		Bridging open work permits (BOWP) for caregivers and their dependants	-	-
		Caregive Other (Live-in Caregiver Program, Low-Skill Pilot, Interim Pathway for Caregivers)	-	-
		Home Support Worker Pilot (HSW) and Child-Care Provider Pilot (HCP)	-	-
		Hong Kong Open Work Permits (Public Policy)	-	-
		Open work permit pilot program for permanent residence applicants in the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class	-	-
		Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) – Employer-specific work permits	-	31
	Global Skills Strategy	Global Skills Strategy - PA	107	51
	Work Permit - Extension Pilots/Public Policies/Special Programs	Total-WP-EXT-Pilots
		Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP)	-	-
		Bridging open work permits (BOWP) for caregivers and their dependants	103	124
		Caregive Other (Live-in Caregiver Program, Low-Skill Pilot, Interim Pathway for Caregivers)	112	112
		Home Support Worker Pilot (HSW) and Child-Care Provider Pilot (HCP)	-	-
		Hong Kong Open Work Permits (Public Policy)	-	-
		Open work permit pilot program for permanent residence applicants in the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class	244	770
		Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) – Employer-specific work permits	-	-
		Yukon Community Pilot (YCP)	-	-

Note: CBSA workload excluded

Passport

Service Type	Processing Time		Service Standard
Service Type	Prior CY (2020)	CY (2021)	Prior CY (2020)	CY (2021)
10-Day Service	12 days	12 days	97.41%	95.94%
20-Day Service	24 days	26 days	87.30%	78.56%
Call Back	0 days	0 days	97.82%	97.77%
Express	3 days	4 days	99.67%	99.73%
Urgent	1 days	1 days	98.83%	97.96%
COI/RTD	116 days	108 days	17.63%	14.66%

COI/RTD refer to Certificate of Identity and Refugee Travel Document.

Citizenship

Application Type/ Citizenship Category	Processing Time (in months) 2020
Grants	16
Proofs	14

Notes:

Data is preliminary and subject to change.

Data Sources:

Permanent Resident, Temporary Resident, Asylum, PRRA, and PR Card: EDW (CBR) as of December 1st, 2021
Citizenship: GCMS, IRCC-EDW (MBR) and CPC Weekly as of January 4, 2022
Passport: SAS CI, GCMS Answers as of January 11, 2022
Please note data more recent than November 30, 2021 has not been publicly released

Footnotes

Footnote 1

Processing times refer to the time in which 80% of applications were finalized by IRCC. Please note that a minimum of 10 cases are required to calculate processing times, and that the country is based on the principal applicants' country of residency.

Permanent Resident, Permanent Resident Card, and Citizenship processing time should read as 80% of cases finalized in the last 12 months were completed within X months or less. Temporary Resident processing time should read as 80% of cases finalized in the last 8 weeks were completed within X days or less.

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Footnote 2

GAR includes counts of refugees under the BVOR program for all activities except admissions, as BVOR cases are selected from the overall GAR inventory.

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Footnote 3

This category does not include Pilot Programs

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Footnote 4

SAWP is work permits by special program “Seasonal Agricultural Work Program”. “Agricultural NOC” includes all work permits related to agriculture by the National Occupational Code (9617, 9462, 8611, 8432, 8431, 8255, 8252, 9463, 9618, 6331, 7511, 0821, 0822).

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