Visa processing times for other destinations

Canada checked by hand

IRCC publishes processing times through an interactive tool where you select your application type and country, rather than a single published table covering everyone at once. That makes it something to check live for your specific situation, not something this page can mirror in one shot.

What's broadly known from IRCC's own published methodology: figures represent how long it took to finish 80% of recently completed applications for that specific country and application type — and vary enormously by country. As a rough, non-binding sense of scale reported in recent public data: applicants from the US have seen figures as low as ~2 weeks, while several high-volume countries have seen visitor-visa waits stretch past 80 days. These numbers move regularly and shouldn't be treated as current without checking the tool directly.

Australia checked by hand

The Department of Home Affairs publishes "global visa processing times" monthly, but the page renders its figures with JavaScript rather than as plain page content — the same technical reason this site's fee-schedule page can't auto-fetch Australia's fees either. Figures are also reported as percentiles (e.g. "50% of applications decided within X days, 90% within Y days") rather than a single number, reflecting real variability rather than a fixed promise.

Schengen Area no single source exists

This isn't a technical scraping problem — there's genuinely no unified EU-wide wait-time source to mirror. Each of the 29 Schengen states runs its own embassies and consulates, and appointment availability is set and published independently by each one (often through their own outsourced visa centre — VFS Global, TLScontact, or BLS International, depending on the country and location). "Schengen wait times" isn't one number; it's up to 29 separate systems.

The Schengen visa code itself sets a maximum legal limit — a decision should normally be made within 15 calendar days of a complete application, extendable to 30–60 days in specific cases — but that's a ceiling, not a typical real-world wait, and appointment availability (getting a slot at all) is often the longer bottleneck than the 15-day processing window itself.

China published standard, not live-tracked

Chinese embassies and consulates consistently publish a fixed standard themselves: 4 working days for regular processing (confirmed directly on multiple official consulate pages, including the Chinese Embassy in the US and its consulates), with expedited service in 2–3 working days where available, for an extra fee. Unlike Canada or Australia, this isn't a JavaScript-rendered tool or a percentile figure — it's a flat, consistently stated number.

What isn't tracked here: this standard applies once your passport is physically with the consulate — it doesn't include appointment availability, mail/courier time, or the extra time added if additional documents or an interview are requested, all of which can extend the real-world timeline well beyond 4 days.

Japan published standard, varies sharply by mission

Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs states a standard of 5 working days from the day after an application is accepted, provided there's no issue with the content. This is a clear, consistently repeated official figure — but it describes the exam itself, not the full real-world timeline at every mission.

The gap between the stated standard and mission-specific reality can be large: some Japanese missions that route applications through third-party visa application centres (e.g. VFS Global in Nigeria) publish their own minimums well above the 5-day standard — 12 working days in Abuja, 14 in Lagos, as one example. There's no single tool that aggregates this by mission the way Canada's or Australia's do.

South Korea no single source exists

Like Schengen, this isn't a technical scraping problem — no single official Korean government page publishes one aggregated processing-time figure across all embassies and visa types. The Korea Immigration Service's HiKorea portal covers in-country applications (extensions, status changes), but initial visa issuance abroad is handled independently by each embassy, consulate, or outsourced visa application centre (VFS Global, BLS International), each publishing its own estimate.

What's commonly reported, without one official source to point to for all of it: short-term visit (C-3) visas in the range of 5–15 business days depending on the mission; student and work-category visas commonly several weeks; long-term residence changes handled in-country via HiKorea often quoted at 1–3 months. Treat all of these as third-party-reported ranges, not an official published ceiling.

Turkey split: one part official, one part isn't

Turkey's two visa routes have genuinely different answers here. The e-Visa has a clear official figure, stated directly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself: the whole process takes no more than 10 minutes once submitted online. That's about as close to a hard, checkable government-published number as exists on this page.

The sticker visa (required for nationalities not eligible for the e-Visa, or for work/study/long-stay purposes) is the opposite case — no single official aggregated figure exists. Third-party sources commonly cite 5–15 working days for tourist/business sticker visas and considerably longer for work or study categories, but this varies by mission and was not confirmed against one official cross-embassy source.