{"id":10107,"date":"2026-03-18T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/03\/18\/irccs-backlog-falls-below-one-million-as-work-permit-waits-ease\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:56:53","slug":"irccs-backlog-falls-below-one-million-as-work-permit-waits-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/03\/18\/irccs-backlog-falls-below-one-million-as-work-permit-waits-ease\/","title":{"rendered":"IRCC\u2019s backlog falls below one million as work permit waits ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAs of January 31, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada\u2019s (IRCC\u2019s) total application backlog dropped to 990,300, falling below one million for the first time since October 2025. The most significant shifts seen in this backlog update compared to December 31, 2025, consist of the following: Study permit backlog: 14% increase. Work permit backlog: 8% decrease.<br \/>\nThe post IRCC\u2019s backlog falls below one million as work permit waits ease first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 31, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada\u2019s (IRCC\u2019s) total application backlog dropped to 990,300, falling below one million for the first time since October 2025. The most significant shifts seen in this backlog update compared to December 31, 2025, consist of the following: Study permit backlog: 14% increase. Work permit backlog: 8% decrease. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/03\/irccs-backlog-falls-below-one-million-as-work-permit-waits-ease-0373093.html\">IRCC\u2019s backlog falls below one million as work permit waits ease<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/\">CIC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/03\/irccs-backlog-falls-below-one-million-as-work-permit-waits-ease-0373093.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAs of January 31, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada\u2019s (IRCC\u2019s) total application backlog dropped to 990,300, falling below one million for the first time since October 2025. The most significant shifts seen in this backlog update compared to December 31, 2025, consist of the following: Study permit backlog: 14% increase. Work permit backlog: 8% decrease. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}