The mountain of permanent and temporary residency and citizenship applications facing immigration officials in Canada is slowly being whittled down to size, falling to a little more than 2.2 million applications at the end of December last year from almost 2.4 million in late June the previous year.
That’s a roughly seven per cent drop in the number of applications in the immigration department’s inventory over a 1.5-year period.
“To meet our annual immigration targets and help us increase processing capacity and efficiency, it’s important to have an inventory of applications for our programs,” states the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) website.
https://www.immigration.ca/canadas-immigration-application-backlog-fell-7-since-2022-but-still-a-major-problem/