Study Abroad: Latest Processing Times of IRCC for the Year 2024

The latest processing times released as of 9th January 2024 have been listed on the below page for official Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada for all types of applications along with the comparison with their times over the last four weeks. The processing times for about 80% of the applications are available now and they are updated every week.

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Canada Citizenship and PR cards

Application Type	Current ProcessingTime	Change Since January 2	Change Since December 28	Change Since December 20	Change Since December 13
Citizenship grant	15 months	No Change	1 month	1 month	1 month
Citizenship certificate (proof of citizenship)*	9 months	1 month	2 months	2 months	2 months
Resumption of citizenship	Not enough data	Not enough data	Not enough data	Not enough data	Not enough data
Renunciation of Citizenship	14 months	No Change	No Change	No Change	No Change
Search of citizenship records	14 months	No Change	No Change	No Change	No Change
New PR card	16 days	13 days	26 days	42 days	51 days
PR card renewals	59 days	2 days	4 days	6 days	9 days

Economic Permanent Residency Applications

Application Type	Current Processing Time	Change since 2 Jan	Change since 28 Dec	Change since 20 Dec	Change since 13 Dec
Canadian Experience Class (CEC)	5 months	No Change	No Change	No Change	No Change
Start-Up Visa	37 months	No Change	No Change	No Change	No Change

Temporary Visas

Application Type	Current Processing Time	Change since Jan 2	Change since 28 Dec	Change since 20 Dec	Change since 13 Dec
Study Permit Outside Canada	8 Weeks	No Change	No Change	1 Week	-1 Week
Study Permit Inside Canada	4 weeks	No Change	No Change	No Change	No Change
Study Permit Extension	Online: 77 Days Paper-Based: 71 Days as of Dec 20	No Change	24 Days for online	46 Days for online	52 days for online
Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)	5 minutes	No Change	No Change	No Change	No Change

🇨🇦 In first 2024 update, IRCC #processing time changes for citizenship, family sponsorship, #ExpressEntry, PNP, visitor visas, super visas, work permits, IEC

🇨🇦 Check out #latest processing times as of January 2024 and #comparison over the last 4 weeks👇https://t.co/R6GzYJWLDh

— INC – Immigration News Canada 🇨🇦 🍁 (@CanadaImmigra20) January 4, 2024

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