How processing times have changed.

IRCC publishes one processing-time estimate per service and country, and replaces it every week. We read 18 archived copies of IRCC’s data file, from Sep 2018 to Oct 2026, to show how the estimates moved. For today’s estimate, use our processing times page or IRCC’s tool.

Snapshots 18Latest Oct 2026Unit days

Visitor visa (outside Canada): estimate in days

Selected countries. Snapshots are irregular: the gaps between dates are not interpolated.

Period	India	Philippines	Nigeria	China	Pakistan	United States of America
Sep 2018	41	11	50	13	31	10
Feb 2021	154	58	209	371	433	170
Jan 2022	55	37	77	87	326	85
Feb 2022	63	41	79	249	375	155
Mar 2022	94	45	171	522	144	138
May 2022	127	48	92	40	93	71
Jun 2022	129	59	120	39	140	27
Jul 2022	147	86	164	49	155	46
Aug 2022	160	98	144	42	135	36
Sep 2022	148	115	156	46	111	37
Oct 2023	29	28	601	94	57	24
Nov 2023	29	31	574	100	57	23
Jun 2024	34	23	172	46	101	28
Mar 2025	96	14	141	31	16	20
Jul 2026	20	17	59	27	34	29
Aug 2026	31	21	76	32	75	21
Sep 2026	32	21	93	35	78	17
Oct 2026	30	26	97	36	75	18

Source: IRCC, Check processing times data file (data-ptime-en.json), archived by the Internet Archive. IRCC’s published estimates at each date, not measured outcomes. Weeks converted at 7 days.

Study permit (outside Canada): estimate in days

Selected countries. Snapshots are irregular: the gaps between dates are not interpolated.

Period	India	Philippines	Nigeria	China	Pakistan	United States of America
Sep 2018	49	42	77	21	77	28
Feb 2021	63	77	91	252	119	119
Jan 2022	77	70	175	56	63	70
Feb 2022	84	70	182	63	63	70
Mar 2022	91	77	196	91	56	77
May 2022	77	84	161	56	35	56
Jun 2022	84	98	154	56	42	28
Jul 2022	91	91	126	42	42	21
Aug 2022	84	91	112	42	49	21
Sep 2022	84	84	168	56	63	42
Oct 2023	21	49	49	77	56	42
Nov 2023	21	56	49	70	70	42
Jun 2024	105	133	126	42	210	35
Mar 2025	105	35	49	35	56	35
Jul 2026	35	28	35	21	42	35
Aug 2026	35	28	63	28	49	35
Sep 2026	35	35	70	28	49	42
Oct 2026	42	35	70	28	42	35

Source: IRCC, Check processing times data file (data-ptime-en.json), archived by the Internet Archive. IRCC’s published estimates at each date, not measured outcomes. Weeks converted at 7 days.

Work permit (outside Canada): estimate in days

Selected countries. Snapshots are irregular: the gaps between dates are not interpolated.

Period	India	Philippines	Nigeria	China	Pakistan	United States of America
Sep 2018	119	63	98	70	147	14
Feb 2021	154	84	133	126	161	70
Jan 2022	301	91	427	91	119	56
Feb 2022	357	91	315	91	140	56
Mar 2022	378	91	252	91	259	56
May 2022	350	119	343	140	245	63
Jun 2022	273	126	385	105	266	63
Jul 2022	287	112	399	140	336	70
Aug 2022	315	105	364	126	357	77
Sep 2022	266	126	399	119	259	91
Oct 2023	70	126	84	84	238	49
Nov 2023	70	126	84	84	217	56
Jun 2024	147	154	147	105	238	56
Mar 2025	140	35	105	119	63	567
Jul 2026	63	49	77	63	42	28
Aug 2026	63	42	63	35	49	14
Sep 2026	70	42	70	28	56	28
Oct 2026	70	49	70	28	56	28

Source: IRCC, Check processing times data file (data-ptime-en.json), archived by the Internet Archive. IRCC’s published estimates at each date, not measured outcomes. Weeks converted at 7 days.

Parent and grandparent super visa: estimate in days

Selected countries. Snapshots are irregular: the gaps between dates are not interpolated.

Period	India	Philippines	Nigeria	China	Pakistan	United States of America
Sep 2018	56	125	68	51	79	65
Feb 2021	337	357	317	317	317	317
Jan 2022	59	289	572	336	402	140
Feb 2022	63	289	572	326	405	125
Mar 2022	78	287	552	413	417	125
May 2022	137	171	145	155	373	460
Jun 2022	146	177	153	153	343	458
Jul 2022	146	176	153	202	369	531
Aug 2022	134	217	139	191	330	533
Sep 2022	68	216	112	111	272	508
Oct 2023	48	143	134	99	148	144
Nov 2023	46	142	116	100	156	146
Jun 2024	49	134	153	77	147	192
Mar 2025	127	120	36	115	88	262
Jul 2026	52	57	33	51	179	123
Aug 2026	56	107	53	70	176	138
Sep 2026	70	90	44	77	92	66
Oct 2026	65	97	44	83	100	72

Source: IRCC, Check processing times data file (data-ptime-en.json), archived by the Internet Archive. IRCC’s published estimates at each date, not measured outcomes. Weeks converted at 7 days.

All countries

Latest estimate and peak, in days.

Country	Visitor visa (outside Canada)	Study permit (outside Canada)	Work permit (outside Canada)	Parent and grandparent super visa
India	30 (peak 160)	42 (peak 105)	70 (peak 378)	65 (peak 337)
Philippines	26 (peak 115)	35 (peak 133)	49 (peak 154)	97 (peak 357)
China	36 (peak 522)	28 (peak 252)	28 (peak 140)	83 (peak 413)
Nigeria	97 (peak 601)	70 (peak 196)	70 (peak 427)	44 (peak 572)
Pakistan	75 (peak 433)	42 (peak 210)	56 (peak 357)	100 (peak 417)
United States of America	18 (peak 170)	35 (peak 119)	28 (peak 567)	72 (peak 533)
Mexico	23 (peak 149)	21 (peak 42)	14 (peak 77)	78 (peak 478)
Brazil	30 (peak 116)	35 (peak 273)	21 (peak 154)	28 (peak 317)
Iran	98 (peak 348)	105 (peak 413)	189 (peak 322)	231 (peak 503)
Vietnam	37 (peak 126)	28 (peak 189)	35 (peak 168)	43 (peak 317)
South Korea	57 (peak 149)	28 (peak 105)	35 (peak 343)	– (peak 317)
France	38 (peak 383)	28 (peak 91)	21 (peak 469)	– (peak 380)
United Kingdom	24 (peak 399)	28 (peak 147)	28 (peak 210)	91 (peak 571)
Bangladesh	36 (peak 129)	35 (peak 189)	84 (peak 224)	55 (peak 317)
Sri Lanka	46 (peak 218)	35 (peak 182)	63 (peak 245)	40 (peak 274)
Cameroon	43 (peak 379)	49 (peak 119)	56 (peak 686)	100 (peak 288)
Colombia	21 (peak 128)	42 (peak 105)	35 (peak 119)	71 (peak 317)
Morocco	21 (peak 190)	49 (peak 126)	49 (peak 154)	21 (peak 317)
United Arab Emirates	56 (peak 637)	42 (peak 217)	105 (peak 434)	80 (peak 308)
Afghanistan	53 (peak 268)	21 (peak 308)	– (peak 511)	– (peak 807)
Algeria	27 (peak 341)	49 (peak 140)	63 (peak 147)	57 (peak 317)
Ukraine	11 (peak 365)	49 (peak 161)	– (peak 91)	63 (peak 317)
Eritrea	135 (peak 249)	– (peak 91)	– (peak –)	– (peak 360)
Jamaica	28 (peak 272)	14 (peak 154)	49 (peak 140)	47 (peak 181)

Latest snapshot Oct 2026; peak is the highest value across the 18 snapshots since Sep 2018.

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What these numbers are.

IRCC calculates each estimate from how long it took to finalize 80% of applications in the recent past, so the numbers trail real conditions.
Snapshots come from the Internet Archive’s copies of IRCC’s public data file. Dates depend on when the archive captured the file.
Permanent residence and citizenship processing times are not in this file and are not shown here.
This is not advice about your application. Check your own estimate in IRCC’s tool.

About this data. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. IRCC rounds every figure to the nearest 5 and suppresses values from 0 to 5; we count suppressed cells as zero, so totals here can be slightly below IRCC’s published totals. “Rounded, not for calculations.” Not an official IRCC publication. These pages describe what happened, using official statistics. They do not predict policy, estimate anyone’s chances, or rank communities. Processing-time estimates are published by IRCC on canada.ca; we restate the figures with citation. See methods and definitions.