Processing Times - Permanent Resident cases: Skilled Workers and other Economic Class categories

Within 6 months of submitting your application, you will receive an Acknowledgement of Receipt.  This letter will include your unique file number.  Your file will be placed in a queue awaiting review. Once your file has been reviewed, we will contact you to advise the results of the review and any next steps you need to take.  If your address or contact information changes during processing, you must inform this office in writing.  Please include your file number in all correspondence.

Processing times may vary depending on the number of new applications received and the individual complexity of each application.

Actual processing times of permanent resident applications in New Delhi for the last 12 months.

Due to the high volume of correspondence received by this office, we are not able to respond to case status enquiries sent within the processing times currently posted for finalization of 80% of cases. 

Type of application - Average Processing Time

Economic Class Processing Times
Federal Skilled Workers who applied on or after 28 February 2008
Time to Initial Review	Time to Finalization
Within 3 months	Within 10 months
Provincial Nominees
Time to Initial Review	Time to Finalization
Within 1 Month	Within 7 Months
Quebec Skilled Workers
Time to Initial Review	Time to Finalization
Within 2 months	Within 7 months
Federal Skilled Workers who applied before 28 February 2008
Time to Initial Review	Time to Finalization
72 months	73 months
Currently Reviewing Applications Received	Currently Finalizing Applications Received
December 2003	November 2003
Federal Investors
Time to Interview	Time to Finalization
20 months	21 months
Currently Interviewing Applications Received	Currently Finalizing Applications Received
March 2008	Late 2007 and early 2008
Entrepreneurs; Self-Employed Persons
Time to Interview	Time to Finalization
75 months	70+ months
Currently Interviewing Applications Received	Currently Finalizing Applications Received
August 2003	Early 2003

 

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