Processing times have increased dramatically for citizenship applications, as well as applications for the Atlantic Immigration Program, Start-up Visa Program, and Federal Self-employed Persons Program.

These increases come after an update made earlier this month to the government’s online processing tool, which now provides users more personalized estimates based on their date of application submission for certain types of applications.

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Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP)

The AIP shows one of the largest increases among economic pathways.

Application type Current processing time (October 27) Processing time as of October 4 Percentage increase in wait time AIP 37 months 13 months 184.6%

IRCC’s tool also shows 1

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