Pan-Atlantic Kompass confirmed on 13 October 2026 that IRCC’s processing-time webpage now displays personalised wait estimates and exact queue positions for in-Canada work-permit applications—a feature quietly enabled in late September but fully functional as of this week. Users choosing ‘Work permit in Canada’ can input their submission date to receive a dynamic time range and see how many applications are ahead of them. Early tests show the system recalculates daily, reflecting approvals processed overnight. The enhancement helps employers forecast on-boarding dates for foreign workers already in Canada, reducing reliance on costly ‘maintained-status’ stopgaps. However, immigration advisers warn that the numbers do not account for additional document requests, which can extend real-world processing beyond the published range. IRCC officials say the tool leverages machine-learning models trained on historical performance and resource-allocation data. Privacy advocates note that only aggregated queue metrics are shown, so no personal information is disclosed. The personalised feature is expected to expand to LMIA-based work-permit streams filed outside Canada later this year, pending system-testing results.
Source: Pan-Atlantic Kompass
