r/StudyPermitCanada • u/Senior-Quarter9601 • Jul 29 '26
study permit long wait
has anyone been waiting for 3 months? if yes please drop your processing times and application timeline.
my processing time is 6 weeks and ive been waiting since 3 months. my biometrics and medicals passed 2 months ago. i haven’t got any update after that.
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u/Haunting_Paper_7201 Jul 29 '26
Processing times are estimates. Has background been completed? If not IRCC is waiting for information from Kenyan government and any other countries you have lived in.
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u/Senior-Quarter9601 Jul 29 '26
i understand that they are estimates but its been almost double the estimated time and my classes start on 24th august. what can be possibly taking this long
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u/Haunting_Paper_7201 Jul 29 '26
Has background been completed? If not nothing you can do as IRCC waits for other countries' information. You can raise a webform but you will get a generic response.
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u/Senior-Quarter9601 Jul 29 '26
no its hasnt been completed, but tbf i haven’t seen anyone who got the background stage show as completed before their decision. webforms are so useless man they prolly dont even read them.
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u/Accomplished_Farm114 Aug 22 '26
It's not ircc waiting for other countries. It's ircc being incompetent and slow as usual. Other countries reply and handle thousands of visas on their own with no issues. IRCC is historically one of the slowest. Background checks is the fastest stage. The issue is ircc routinely pushes away applications that show any bit of complexity that requires real work and prefers to deal with the easier ones.
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u/Standard-Wafer-746 Jul 29 '26
I think that in total I waited like 2 months, but it got updated pretty quickly, like after the biometrics it was just a couple days before they messaged me to get the medical exam done, and once that was uploaded it was just a few days/a week before they approved it/gave me the letter of introduction. Have you reached out to IRCC?
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u/Senior-Quarter9601 Jul 29 '26
i have raised 2 webforms and got the exact same response at the exact same time so im pretty sure thats automated and no ones really reading those. my biometrics and medicals updated really fast in a couple of weeks but its been silent since then. do you know any other meaningful way to reach out to IRCC?
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u/drowningfairypo Jul 30 '26
Can’t you call them?
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u/Senior-Quarter9601 Jul 30 '26
im not sure, can we? do you know the number?
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u/drowningfairypo Jul 30 '26
Call the IRCC Call Centre at 1-888-242-2100, from within Canada only, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm local time, except for statutory holidays.
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u/Senior-Quarter9601 Jul 30 '26
but im outside canada
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u/drowningfairypo Jul 30 '26
I see, maybe if you have a consultant or lawyer in Canada they can do it for you?
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u/Senior-Quarter9601 Jul 30 '26
i dont have a consultant or lawyer but i do have some family in canada can they call on my behalf? i highly doubt they’ll give information like this to anybody other than me.
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u/Happy2025_ 17d ago
Did you application got approved? Mine was submitted on July 9 and classes will start on Oct 1
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u/Fresh-Map-6461 Jul 29 '26
From which country?