There are currently 2.1 million candidates in stock across all lines of business, a decrease of 110,000 from December information.
Migration, Refugees as well as Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reports that the number of candidates in supply has actually lowered from roughly 2.2 million to simply over 2.1 million over December.
In an email to CIC Information, IRCC gave upgraded data, which is existing since January 2-3.
The inventory throughout all lines of business has advanced as follows since July 2021:
January 2-3 2023: 2,152,220 individuals
December 3, 2022: 2,243,097 individuals
November 3, 2022: 2,411,388 persons
September 30, 2022: 2,600,000 individuals
August 31, 2022: 2,583,827 persons
July 15-17, 2022: 2,679,031 persons
June 1-6, 2022: 2,387,884 persons
April 30-May 2, 2022: 2,130,385 persons
April 11-12, 2022: 2,031,589 individuals
March 15 as well as 17, 2022: 1,844,424 individuals
February 1, 2022: 1,815,628 individuals
December 15, 2021: 1,813,144 individuals
October 27, 2021: 1,792,404 individuals
July 6, 2021: 1,447,474 individuals
Current inventories
The citizenship inventory stands at 301,388 candidates since January 3, contrasted to 314,630 on November 30.
The permanent residence inventory stands at 521,552 individuals since January 2, contrasted to 512,342 since December 2.
Additionally on January 3, the temporary home supply stood at 1,329,280 individuals, compared to 1,416,125 persons as of December 3.
For that reason, there were decreases in 2 of the 3 significant groups, with the biggest decrease occurring in the momentary residence supply at 86,845 fewer candidates than there were on December 3.
Express Entry and PNP inventories
IRCC data programs 48,409 applicants for Express Entrance programs waiting in the queue as of January 2. This is a boost of virtually 5,000 given that December 2 data, which stood at 43,326.
Among the total people making an application for Express Access programs, there has been a rise of 3,733 candidates for the Canadian Experience Course over the past month and 1,869 for the Federal Proficient Employee Program.
IRCC returned to holding rounds of invites for Express Entrance prospects from all programs in July this year. Draws were restricted to candidates in the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) in between September 21, 2021, as well as July 6, 2022, as a result of IRCC having a hard time to satisfy its service criterion of six months or less for Express Entrance applications. The time out in Express Access invites to Federal Experienced Worker Program (FSWP) and also Canadian Experience Course prospects allowed IRCC to reduce the Express Entry supply and go back to a six-month solution standard for those that obtained an invitation to apply since July 6.
Express Entrance draws generally happen every two weeks. However, there has not been an Express Entry draw since November 23. CIC Information has reached out to IRCC for comment several times to ask when candidates can anticipate the next draw with no action.
The PNP has a stock of 62,720 complete candidates (both base and also enhanced integrated), which is not a significant increase from the December PNP stock data of 62,343 individuals.
Family class inventory
The supply for all family course migration programs dropped slightly to 125,631 compared to December 3 when it was 127,091.
The Partners as well as Companions sponsorship program is amongst the biggest inventories amongst all industries, at 61,481, a decrease of 1,460 compared to 62,106 on December 2.
The Moms And Dads and also Grandparents Program (PGP) has a supply of 52,960 individuals contrasted to 53,770 persons waiting on choices in December.
Service Standards
IRCC’s web page that tracks the overall supply of applicants reveals that as of November 30 (the most lately offered information), 1.09 million applications are taken into consideration stockpile.
Data from October 31 revealed that there were 1.2 million candidates in backlog, implying IRCC cleared 110,000 candidates from the stockpile over November. This is a smaller sized decline than was seen between September as well as October when IRCC got rid of 350,000 candidates. Still, the stockpile is slowly decreasing regardless of a rise in the number of applicants for long-term house currently in inventory.
An application in backlog means it has not been processed within solution standards. These criteria supply the expected timeline, or objective, for how long it must take to refine an application. The service requirement is different from the real amount of time that IRCC requires to process applications. Applications not processed within the service requirement for their program are classified as stockpile.
IRCC aims to process 80% of applications across all line of work within service criteria that vary relying on the sort of application. For instance, a permanent home application with an Express Access program has a standard of 6 months. It is much longer for other economic class industries. IRCC states its service standard for spousal as well as youngster household course sponsorship is 12 months.
Short-lived residence applications have solution standards that vary in between 60-120 days relying on the sort of application (work or research study) and if it was sent within Canada or from abroad.
Last Updated: 11 January 2023
