CANADA: Immitracker vs. IRCC, immigration processing time insights (January 2024)
Continuing with the case analysis series launched this year, Immitracker is presenting the latest processing time statistics for Canada! With the help of our users who thoughtfully put in their case information, we’re able to glean valuable insights regarding actual processing times for the most popular Canadian immigration programs.
For each visa and immigration program and citizenship, the IRCC provides average processing time estimates. These official estimates by program can be found here. From the cases that get logged in the Canadian trackers on Immitracker, we noticed that the actual processing times can vary significantly from the ones presented by the IRCC.
January 2024 High Level Processing Time Comparison
This time we’re presenting the analysis for January 2024 and the programs that Immitracker took for our analysis are from the most popular trackers and include:
In the graph below, we display the government processing time estimates for each of these programs (published the week of February 26th) on the left side and the actual processing time estimates calculated by Immitracker on the right side. The Immitracker numbers were calculated based on the cases that successfully finished processing in January.
January 2024 Processing Time Analysis by Program
In this section, we break down our Immitracker processing time insights by individual program including the quantity of cases that were analyzed and the number of days it took on average for the case to go from submission to completion.
Citizenship
For Citizenship applicants, we analyzed 41 cases that received their Oath Letter in January 2024.
The Oath Letter is one of the final steps in the citizenship application process - in this letter, the IRCC provides the applicant with an invitation to and date for their citizenship ceremony. During the citizenship ceremony, the applicant formally becomes a Canadian citizen and receives their citizenship certificate shortly thereafter.
The Express Entry analysis includes the Canadian Experience Class, Federal Skilled Worker, and Express Entry Provincial Nominee programs. We indicate the quantity of cases we analyzed for each of the programs and the average number of days it took these applicants to receive a PPR (Passport Request) in January 2024.
Express Entry Canadian Experience Class (CEC) Program
For Canadian Experience Class (CEC) applicants, a total of 35 cases received their PPR in January 2024 and it on average took them 196 days in order to receive it.
Express Entry Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs)
For Provincial Nominee (PNP) through Express Entry applicants, a total of 21 cases received their PPR in January 2024 and it on average took them 155 days in order to receive it.
PNPs remain the fastest moving program out of the Express Entry ones we analyzed.
Express Entry Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSW) Program
For Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) applicants, a total of 11 cases received their PPR in December 2023 - January 2024 (two month period) and it on average took them 188 days in order to receive it.
January 2024 Summary Infographic
If you’re interested in getting a copy of our data analysis summaries, you can download them along with the infographic for free at the following link!
Looking for processing time insights for other programs? Check out the Immitracker trackers or reach out to us through our Contact Form and we can help you find the answers!
