Canada: Visitor visa times improve, study permits surge
SHOCKING IMMIGRATION CRISIS: Pakistani Students Trapped in Eight-Week Hell While Americans Skip the Queue
The system is breaking.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has dropped a bombshell update exposing a brutal two-tier waiting game that threatens to derail thousands of academic dreams.
Pakistani study permit applicants are now staring down an agonising eight-week processing time.
Just seven days ago, the wait was manageable.
Now it has exploded by a full seven weeks.
Autumn semester offers hang in the balance.
But look south.
American applicants just caught a lucky break.
Their processing times plummeted by one week in the latest cycle.
The contrast could not be crueller.
VISITOR VISAS SEE RELIEF
Not all the news is bleak.
Visitor visa processing is finally moving in the right direction.
Families desperate to reunite are breathing easier as turnaround times improve across multiple visa offices.
The tourism sector is cheering this rare bit of good news.
But study permits remain the bloodiest battleground.
WORK PERMITS STUCK IN THE MUD
Skilled workers are being left to rot.
Work permit queues have barely budged according to fresh IRCC data.
Processing times remained relatively static this update.
Economic migrants are fuming.
They accuse Ottawa of prioritising holidaymakers and students over the taxpayers who fuel the economy.
The clock is ticking.
September semester deadlines loom like a guillotine.
Every day of delay costs desperate families thousands in forfeited tuition deposits and cancelled housing contracts.
For Pakistani students trapped in limbo, the anxiety is unbearable.
Check the latest figures.
The disparity is undeniable.
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