Immigration Canada Processing Standards could return to normal by 2023

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser appeared on May 12, 2022 before the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration to participate in the committee’s new study on IRCC’s application backlogs and processing times.

Minister Fraser was invited on behalf of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to participate in the committee’s backlog study

Minister Fraser told the committee that IRCC will aim to return processing times to their standard for the majority of business lines by the end of the calendar year.

“I think we’ll be able to do it—on a majority of lines of business—potentially this calendar year,” Fraser said, “and where we can’t do it, we should be broadcasting those timelines.”

Processing standards refer to the goal IRCC sets to process an application. Standards do not always reflect actual processing times.