Startup Visa Program Timeline
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One-time initiatives to recalibrate our immigration system
As part of a broader recalibration effort to return our immigration system to sustainable levels, the Government is implementing a one-time initiative over a two-year period to streamline the transition of approximately 115,000 Protected Persons in Canada who are already on a pathway to permanent residence and in alignment with their protected status under domestic and international law. These admissions are in addition to those identified in the above permanent resident admission targets. Protected persons have a recognized protected person status in Canada and can reside in the country as long as they maintain this status. They are not temporary residents like workers or students who come to Canada on time-bound temporary permits. Prioritizing their admissions as permanent residents over the next two years will ensure that those in genuine need of Canada’s protection have their permanent status recognized, accelerating their full integration into the Canadian society and their path to citizenship, and upholding Canada’s international humanitarian obligations.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...pplementary-immigration-levels-2026-2028.html
They should have paused the program back then until all applications were processed and then resumed. Now, I don’t know ( maybe they either) how they will clear that increase of 300% in the backlog. They say priorities and crap but with 500 places….. Very hard
Check out the blunder...
Federal Court rules that it is reasonable for an officer to determine that a Start-Up Visa Program applicant who does not apply for a work permit has demonstrated a "lack of seriousness" in their business. Ironically, IRCC now prohibits SUV Program applicants from applying for work permits.
Federal Court rules that it is reasonable for an officer to determine that a Start-Up Visa Program applicant who does not apply for a work permit has demonstrated a "lack of seriousness" in their business. Ironically, IRCC now prohibits SUV Program applicants from applying for work permits.
I’ve read the full federal court decision
The application was not refused just for that reason but many reasons on top of that:
List of all the reasons
it was a group of several actions that led to refusal.
As I read and studied in the GCMS notes, it was mentioned very clearly by the IRCC officer that:
=> The Medical Request will be sent after " Eligibility passed "
In my case, I got the MR as well as my Medical has been passed.
As the normal processing procedure as before, the next steps would be the Background check ( Security )...
But Everything is now changed a lot! I really don't know what is the next ones...will they come back to process my eligibility again basing on the new rules/prioriry or they will go ahead.
Your comment would be appreciated and welcomed
Cheers
Hali
I don’t think they’ll review eligibility again; there’s no time for that since it’s the most time-consuming part of the officer’s work and has caused huge backlogs. But medicals always come before eligibility, and an applicant won’t be cleared for eligibility without completing the medical.
Hello everyone, me and my family have been in a kind of long stressful and confusing predicament with the start up visa for about a while now and i felt the need to post about it on here if anyone here has any sort of information, discussions or just overall support or advice that could be of any sort of help to me right now. my family had applied for the start up visa pr in July 2021, and the official filing started in July 2022 which then proceeded with us being asked to do our first medical in December 2023 then a second one December 2024 and then our pre arrival came out in march 2025, and now in January 2026 it has been nothing but radio silence from them since then, which is definitely frustrating and confusing especially because firstly our application was supposed to take only about 3 and a half years and secondly our pre arrival has come which of course i know doesn't guarantee immediate approval but for over 10 months now we haven't heard anything at all, and it was expected/estimated for it to have come out around late last year and our most recent medical expired around like first week December 2025, with the other people's own on the team expiring around late November 2025. this entire process has really taken a major toll on me and everyone in my family's mental health and the silence even whilst basically expecting to be near or already approved by now has been really draining, I'm really hoping once again anyone here can give any support, advice or information i would really really appreciate anything right now, thank you so much and God bless.
Are you a priority, or not? Are you residing outside Canada or inside? Please answer me to respond to you well.
I believe the key point is the annual quota only 500(shared with Self-employed), you can do nothing but just wait for your available spot, be patient for a while, and your victory is coming soon.
im not really sure what you mean by priority but i currently reside outside of canada