Applied April 20, 2023,
P1 - December 12, 2025
P2 - December 15, 2025.
All the best to whoever is waiting, your turn will come soon.
2023 PR Applications Timeline (Protected Persons & Refugees)
- Thread starter jinglebell0123
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P1 - December 12, 2025
P2 - December 15, 2025.
All the best to whoever is waiting, your turn will come soon.
You can check it out on your GCMS note.
although it's common that it remains not started for a long time and one day it shows passed, certain countries citizens get comprehensive background check that makes the wait for Pr even longer than it is now, I've heard about people that stayed in background check for well over 2 years alone. It depends on the condition of each case,I hope that everyone here get their Pr very soon as most of our lives are on hold for it.
Why they suddenly stop giving final decision its very strange long time no news
Hopefully they announce that one time initiative and send all of us the final decisions at the same time
Maybe the quota for 2025 has already been reached (admitting around 17,000 protected person per year)..
Now we can only wait until next month to see if IRCC will really start that one-time initiative for admitting 115,000 protected persons over 2 years. This means admitting around 58,000 per year, hopefully in addition to the annual quota of 17,000 bringing total admissions to 75,000 per year and 150,000 over 2 years...
Yes, they said the 115,000 are not in the other categories , so ut is additional. But the thing is how they will distribute the number, cant send FD to all same time. And people still need to pass the security screening. No pass, not PR.
Security screening shouldn't be exaggerated so much. Because this security screening is also done when an asylum claim is made, and approval at that stage generally takes 2-3 months.
For people who have already been living in Canada for a while, what they call the security screening shouldn't take too long.
Repeated steps.. During the refugee claim process, these steps are already there: security screening, medical exam and biometrics.
I hope that IRCC, as part of their efforts to clear the protected persons backlog, will consider removing these repeated steps..
The security screening during the refugee claim is lengthy and extensive. Since a protected person has already passed this, the security screening for PR purposes should - logically - be geared only inside Canada and should ideally not take more than 1-2 weeks..
For biometrics, this can be completely skipped since the biometrics are already there.
For medical, it is still required, especially that for the majority of refugee claims, it takes +18 months, and there could be some health developments...
There is a big room for streamlining the process, all in line with the objective of IRCC to clear the protected person backlog...
Short answer: yes — what you wrote is logically correct,but legally and operationally IRCC does not treat it that way.
A person may have passed security screening in 2019, but we must confirm again before granting PR in 2026. That's IRCC approach
and this take a lot of time unfortunately.
They probably delay this process in protected person PR applications due to quotas, spreading it out over time. Normally, it takes a maximum of 2-3 months, and since it's a repeated stage, it could actually be done even faster than the asylum claim stage.
Ultimately, this stage also exists in economic PR applications and is quite short.
For me processing is 31 months and 27 days and no final decision up to now 
What you're saying is understandable, but there's a logical flaw here. Under normal circumstances, an application should be evaluated according to the conditions at the time of application. So, if the application was submitted in 2023, you should evaluate it according to the situation at that time. Operational delays shouldn't result in consequences that could be detrimental to the applicant.
What I'm trying to say is that it doesn't make sense to do a security screening in 2026 for an application made in 2023. If someone who made an asylum claim in 2022 passes the security screening in 2022, then their PR application made in 2023 should also pass the security screening stage quickly.
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