{"id":97060,"date":"2022-03-21T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/ottawa-working-cut-wait-times-for-canada-work-permits"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:08:23","slug":"ottawa-working-cut-wait-times-for-canada-work-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/ottawa-working-cut-wait-times-for-canada-work-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Working To Cut Wait Times For Canada Work Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"

A massive backlog of applications to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is slowing down the processing and issuance of work permits<\/span><\/a> to foreign nationals but Ottawa is hoping to streamline those operations and cut down wait times.<\/p>\n

In late October last year, the IRCC admitted its backlog of applications numbered close to 1.8 million, including 775,741 temporary residence applications. Those are study permits<\/span><\/a>, temporary resident visas<\/span><\/a> and visitor extensions \u2013 and work permits.<\/p>\n

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The impact of that backlog on wait times for foreign nationals to get work permits is huge.<\/p>\n

Although Canadian immigration officials have a service standard of processing a work permit within 60 days, it takes an estimated 55 weeks \u2013 more than a year \u2013 for foreign nationals in India to get a permit to work in Canada.<\/p>\n

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There are exceptions to the current lengthy delays which vary by country of origin. Albanians, for example, can expect a work permit in only five weeks, Belarusians in seven weeks, Poles and Americans in eight weeks and Mexicans in only two weeks.<\/p>\n

But for many other foreign nationals, the current wait times for work permits still seem to range from 11 to 18 weeks, according to the IRCC website<\/span><\/a>. That\u2019s anywhere from 17 to 66 days beyond the service standard.<\/p>\n

Even those foreign nationals already in Canada can expect to wait 133 days, or 19 weeks, for Canadian immigration officials to process their work permits \u2013 and that excludes the time to give and process the applicant\u2019s biometrics.<\/p>\n

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