Former Lancastrian

The Liberal government has cut back the wait times for foreign spouses looking to reunite with their loved ones in Canada and has made considerable headway on a big backlog of applications.

The average wait is now one year in about 80 per cent of cases, down from the previous two-year wait, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Immigration officials also have made a significant dent in what had become a vast backlog of files, bringing it from roughly 75,000 files down to about 15,000 in just over a year.
Liberals speed up foreign spouse reunions, tackle application backlog - Politics - CBC News

Hussen said the results were achieved by deploying a "tiger team" of staff to tackle the backlog, and by simplifying the application process to avoid delays and duplication. Roughly translated means we issued this team with APPROVED stamps.

NOTE: One year in 80% of cases not 100% so it could take longer than 12 months.

AshMyl

Well, a few of us here are testiment to the sub 12mth processing time.... 10mths for us

Dorothy

A few of us here are testament to the longer wait times. 16 months for us. Mind you, when I ordered the GCSM notes I found an entry from 6 months prior to us hearing anything that said "ready to be issued". It was only when I wrote to Mr Hussan's office with my complaints of never getting answers that we received the COPR.

MelVan

I wonder if I was a beneficiary of this. I had a very speedy processing - pretty much six months on the dot from the application being received to decision made. Or was everything about my application very straightforward? Maybe a combination of both?

Engineer_abroad

Presumably with the tiger not being native to Canada they were hired on TWPs

PMM

Hi

1. They just took the staff from another program, who then start complaining about the processing time.

Engineer_abroad

not good for those waiting on PR cards then.