{"id":2945,"date":"2026-05-20T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:20:16","slug":"canada-lmia-processing-times-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/canada-lmia-processing-times-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada LMIA Processing Times \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26-1024x562.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26-1536x843.png 1536w, https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Linked-post-20-May-26.png 1693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Average processing timelines by LMIA stream<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 15, 2026, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) updated the processing times for the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications under various streams. Based on statistics from all processing centres, the average LMIA processing time has increased for all streams except the Permanent Residence Stream and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Global Talent Stream \u2014 7 Business Days <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agricultural Stream \u2014 16 Business Days <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program \u2014 10 Business Days <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High-Wage Stream \u2014 59 Business Days <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Low-Wage Stream \u2014 50 Business Days <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Permanent Residence Stream \u2014 192 Business Days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) \u2013 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/services\/foreign-workers\/labour-market-impact-assessment-processing-times.html\">Labour Market Impact Assessment application processing times &#8211; Canada.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average processing timelines by LMIA stream On May 15, 2026, Employment and Social Development Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539,596],"tags":[9,536,5],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-crm","category-rcic","tag-customer-relationship-management","tag-immigration-crm","tag-online-crm-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplecrm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}