How to check your application status

You can check the status of your application in the Application status tracker (opens in a new tab) .

You must create a new account if

• this is your first time checking your application status in the application status tracker
• you’ve been using the Client Application Status (CAS) tool (opens in a new tab) to check your application status
  • You can’t use your CAS username and password.

  To register, you need your

  • unique client identifier (UCI) or client ID (opens in a new tab)
  • application number
  • first and last name
  • date of birth
  • place of birth

  If you’re a representative or designated person, you also need your

  • party ID (opens in a new tab)
  • first and last name

  Status updates will only show up after you get an acknowledgement of receipt (AOR) letter or email.

  Until then, you may be able to see

  • the date we got your application
  • the name of the sponsor
  • your contact information

  If you applied on paper, you can

  • create an online account
  • link your paper application to it

  You’ll see any updates to your application status there.

  Other immigration programs

  This includes applications for the following:

  • Agri-Food Pilot
  • Atlantic Immigration Program
  • caregivers
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot
  • health-care workers permanent residence pathway
  • humanitarian and compassionate cases
  • out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area
  • protected persons
  • Quebec-selected skilled workers
  • Quebec investors
  • Quebec entrepreneurs
  • Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot
  • self-employed persons
  • start-up visas
  • temporary resident permit holders

  How to check your application status

  There are 2 ways to check your application status online.

  Option 1: Use the Client Application Status tool

  This online tool is updated daily.

  Option 2: Check your application status in your online account

  You can create a secure IRCC online account and link it to your existing application. If you applied online, this is a different account to the one you used when you applied.

  In your online account, you get

  • status updates
  • messages about your application online instead of by mail

  

  Find out how to

  • update or ask about an application in progress
  • check our processing times to see how quickly we’re processing your type of application these days