Business Standard reports that the 19 Nov 2025 IRCC processing-time refresh pushed India’s visitor-visa wait to 106 days and super-visa waits to 171 days, the longest among major source countries. Work-permit decisions from India stand at 10 weeks, while study-permit turnaround has improved to four weeks.
The widening gap matters for Canadian firms with India-based clients or family-support policies: executives may miss short-notice meetings, and parents of foreign workers face delays securing super-visas that allow multi-year family stays.
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IRCC attributes the spike to “record seasonal demand” plus enhanced fraud screening triggered by summer-2024 document-integrity concerns. Industry consultants say India now accounts for roughly 27 % of all Canadian visitor-visa inventory.
Actionable steps: • Advise India-origin travellers to apply a minimum of four months ahead of target entry; • Consider switching urgent trips to the CETA or U.S. offices for biometrics if appointments in Delhi and Bengaluru are saturated; • For family visits, explore extending in-country visitor records for relatives already in Canada to avoid re-application.
Longer-term, mobility teams should monitor whether Ottawa introduces country-caps or additional biometrics collection centres in India to spread the load and restore sub-90-day service standards.
The widening gap matters for Canadian firms with India-based clients or family-support policies: executives may miss short-notice meetings, and parents of foreign workers face delays securing super-visas that allow multi-year family stays.
IRCC attributes the spike to “record seasonal demand” plus enhanced fraud screening triggered by summer-2024 document-integrity concerns. Industry consultants say India now accounts for roughly 27 % of all Canadian visitor-visa inventory.
Actionable steps: • Advise India-origin travellers to apply a minimum of four months ahead of target entry; • Consider switching urgent trips to the CETA or U.S. offices for biometrics if appointments in Delhi and Bengaluru are saturated; • For family visits, explore extending in-country visitor records for relatives already in Canada to avoid re-application.
Longer-term, mobility teams should monitor whether Ottawa introduces country-caps or additional biometrics collection centres in India to spread the load and restore sub-90-day service standards.
