Are all Global Skills Strategy (GSS) work permit applications processed in two weeks?
No. Our commitment is to process 80% of complete applications within 2 weeks.
Processing times for GSS applications continue to be affected by both
- the number of applications we received while COVID-19 health and travel restrictions were in place
- an increase in applications as health and travel restrictions lift in Canada and around the world
It will probably take more than 2 weeks to process your GSS application. We’re continuing to recover so we can return to 2-week processing.
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