As of July 21, Canada’s immigration department will begin sharing monthly updates on the portion of permanent residence applications that are in active processing, versus those that have been waitlisted for processing in the future.
The federal government is waitlisting a portion of its permanent residence inventory due to insufficient permanent residence admissions spaces under its 2026-2028 Immigration Levels Plan.
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Figures for waitlisted applications will be provided across three permanent residence categories: Economic, Family, and Protection.
This marks the first time that the federal government has released details on the proportion of applications being set aside for future processing.
These figures will be adjusted each month based on the number of applications IRCC has in its inventory under each PR category.
IRCC announced this change through a revamped version of its application inventory webpage.
As part of the update to its application inventory webpage, IRCC will also no longer be releasing information on what proportion of its inventory is being processed within service standards, as a whole and across various categories.
“When we receive more applications for a program than there are spaces in the levels plan, some applications must wait until spaces becomes available in a future year,” the updated webpage reads.
The federal government notes that this can increase processing times.
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