Long waits, under-resourcing, big backlogs plagued permanent residency processing in 2022: audit

By Cristin Schmitz (October 19, 2023, 4:29 PM EDT) -- Privately sponsored refugees waited 30 months, on average, in 2022 for their applications to be decided, while overseas spouses or common-law partners waited an average of 15 months to be reunited with their partners in Canada, according to a new performance audit by the auditor general of Canada....