June 30, 2026: 401,280 Temporary Residence Files Still Open After 1,566,455 Decisions

IRCC’s dashboard on application processing, last modified August 18, 2026, now publishes a mid-year inventory. Data is as of June 30, 2026. New temporary residence applications finalized since January 1, 2026 total 1,566,455. Applications not yet finalized total 401,280.

Those are new student, worker, and visitor files only. IRCC states that extensions are not in this count. Values are rounded to the closest multiple of 5. The data is approximate and subject to change.

This is not a new program. It is the first half-year look at the queue behind the arrival and landing dashboards. The change that matters for you is the split between files already decided and files still sitting, and which line you are on.

What the official tables say

IRCC’s temporary residence snapshot as of June 30, 2026:

Most of the open temporary queue is visitor visas. Study and work inventories are smaller. IRCC notes that student filings rise and fall with fall and winter intakes, and that students should file as soon as a designated learning institution accepts them.

On work permits, IRCC lists faster tracks for Global Skills Strategy cases, certain Quebec special measures, and 14-day processing for up to 5,000 licensed doctors with job offers who are nominated through a Provincial Nominee Program so they can work while waiting for permanent residence. Those tracks do not cover every work permit.

Permanent residence is a different bottleneck

The same page separates economic, family, and protection inventories.

Economic class: 141,105 applications finalized since January 1, 2026, and 249,555 not yet finalized. IRCC says 77% of that open inventory is in processing and 23% is waiting for space under yearly targets.

Family class: 54,520 finalized and 163,780 not yet finalized. 59% in processing. 41% waiting for space. From July 2025 to June 2026, IRCC processed spouse, partner, and child applications filed in Canada or abroad for people who want to live outside Quebec in about 14 months.

Protection: 55,295 finalized and 299,460 not yet finalized. 55% in processing. 45% waiting for space.

Express Entry is not the same as the economic inventory. From July 2025 to June 2026, about 79% of Federal Skilled Worker Program and Canadian Experience Class applicants received a decision within the 6-month service standard, and about 50% received a decision in 5 months or less.

The In-Canada Workers Initiative is listed separately. IRCC is transitioning up to 33,000 work permit holders to permanent residence in 2026 and 2027. Those landings sit outside the 2026-2028 levels-plan targets. We covered the mid-year landing count in our June 30 permanent residence explainer.

Citizenship is a long tail

Citizenship grant applications produced 162,020 new citizens since January 1, 2026. 326,190 grant files were not yet finalized on June 30. Proof-of-citizenship applications finalized total 31,980, with 99,520 still open.

A grant inventory larger than the year’s new-citizen count means many files that entered earlier are still in the system. That is not a processing-time promise for a file you file this week.

What this means if your file is in the queue

An arrival target and a landing target are not the same as an inventory. The student arrivals dashboard we covered on September 5 counts people who received a permit. This page counts applications decided or still waiting, including visitor visas that never become an arrival target.

If you filed a new study permit, 36,520 files were still open at mid-year against 99,075 already decided. File completeness still controls whether your file moves. The living-cost table for applications filed on or after September 1, 2026 is $23,448 for a single applicant outside Quebec. We covered that table in our September 1 proof-of-funds explainer.

If you filed a new work permit, the open inventory is 27,655. An in-Canada extension is not in this table. Do not read a smaller work queue as a guarantee that an extension will be fast.

If you hold an Invitation to Apply, the 60-day filing clock is unchanged. A large economic inventory with 23% of open files waiting for space is a levels-plan constraint, not extra time on your ITA.

If you need a structured review of a study permit, a work permit, or an Express Entry file, contact JSR Immigration & Legals through our consultation page, the study permit service page, the work permit service page, or the Express Entry service page.

This article is general information current to September 7, 2026, and is not legal or immigration advice. Confirm the live tables on Canada.ca before you file.