Canada Immigration Backlog reduced to 2,583,827 as of August 31, 2022. This is the first time that IRCC is reporting reduction in processing inventory. The new data suggests that immigration processing backlog has reduced by 95,204 as compared to July 31, 2022 data.

Furthermore, the backlog has reduced across all the major business lines to include citizenship, permanent residency, and temporary residency. However, there has been reports that fall intake study visa applicants haven’t received a decision on their applications even after their classes have already started in September.

As of July 31, 2022 there were around 2.4 million applications under processing. Out of which 1.3 million are backlog, while 1.1 million are within service standards.

As of September 1, there were 371,620 applications on the citizenship waiting list, up from 444,792 on July 15. Click Here For IRCC Latest Processing Times As Of September 20!

IRCC has received 559,552 temporary resident applications from applicants fleeing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Out of these, 251,922 has been approved as of September 14, 2022. These applications are also part of current IRCC processing inventory.

Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) processing inventory has increased again to 53,029 from 47,025 as compared to July 17 data. Below are comparison tables for backlog data from recent updates.

Backlog for Common Permanent Residence Applications as of August 31

Immigration category	%age of backlog added/reduced since July 17	Applications Under Process as of August 31	Applications Under Process as of July 17	Applications Under Process as of June 6
Canadian Experience Class (EE)	0.37%	5,214	5,195	6,088
Federal Skilled Workers (EE)	-35.46%	11,699	18,127	25,081
Skilled Trades (EE)	-18.97%	299	369	434
TR to PR	-1.31%	50,721	51,392	49,447
Quebec Skilled Workers	-4.11%	23,559	24,570	27,146
Humanitarian & Compassionate	-2.09%	29,224	29,848	24,651
Spouses, partners, children, other family	-10.40%	61,073	68,159	67,929
Parents and Grandparents	12.77%	53,029	47,025	41,802
Family Relations Humanitarian & Compassionate	-9.88%	2,764	3,067	3,106
Protected Persons	-1.20%	152,249	154,098	155,274

IRCC PR Backlog data as of August 31

Temporary Residence Applications Backlog as of August 31

TR category	%age of backlog reduced/added since July 17	Applications under processing as of August 31	Applications under processing as of July 17	Applications under processing as of June 6
Study Permit	-22.66%	152,147	196,729	173,353
Study Permit Extension	-32.65%	23,896	35,482	35,492
Temporary Resident Visa	-0.80%	896,772	903,971	771,482
Visitor Record	7.10%	96,598	90,195	82,113
Work Permit	14.52%	359,247	313,710	236,735
Work Permit Extension	-5.78%	169,624	180,036	171,998
Total	-1.27%	1,698,284	1,720,123	1,471,173