The inventory across all lines of business has progressed as follows since July 2021:
- November 3, 2022: 2,411,388 persons
- September 30, 2022: 2,600,000 persons (figure rounded by IRCC)
- August 31, 2022: 2,583,827 persons
- July 15-17, 2022: 2,679,031 persons
- June 1-6, 2022: 2,387,884 persons
- April 30-May 2, 2022: 2,130,385 persons
- April 11-12, 2022: 2,031,589 persons
- March 15 and 17, 2022: 1,844,424 persons
- February 1, 2022: 1,815,628 persons
- December 15, 2021: 1,813,144 persons
- October 27, 2021: 1,792,404 persons
- July 6, 2021: 1,447,474 persons
Current Inventories
The citizenship inventory stands at 331,401 applicants as of October 31, compared to 351,964 on October 3.
The permanent residence inventory stands at 506,421 people as of November 3, compared to 505,562 as of October 3.
Service standards
According to the IRCC webpage that tracks the inventory of applications across all lines of business, there were 2.6 million applications in IRCC’s inventory on September 30. Of those, 1.1 million were within service standards and 1.5 million were considered backlog. This means that over the past month, IRCC has made some progress towards reducing the backlog.
