Spouse, partner or conjugal sponsorship — outside Canada, outside Quebec: current projected processing time

What the current About 18 months figure means

As of September 3, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) estimates a new Spouse, partner or conjugal sponsorship — outside Canada, outside Quebec application may take About 18 months. IRCC also reports about 62,600 people waiting in this program. The queue number is approximate and is not a case-status lookup.

If you already applied, the headline for a new application may not describe your remaining wait. IRCC publishes a separate estimate for each application month below.

Current estimate by application month

If you already applied

Find the month IRCC received your complete application. “People ahead” is IRCC’s approximate program queue for that cohort, not a promise that every case is processed in exact order.

Important: these application-month rows are all part of one IRCC snapshot dated September 3, 2026. They are not 2016–2026 publication history. GovWait stores each future monthly snapshot separately so genuine changes are not overwritten.

Headline projection history

This table is the actual publication history. It begins with the first GovWait import and gains one row only when IRCC publishes a later dated snapshot.

Download this program’s current projection, cohort estimates and provenance as JSON →