Canada · Australia · Schengen Area
Unlike the US and UK, these three don't publish data that can be reliably mirrored on this page automatically — here's what's actually known, and where to check live figures yourself.
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.
Check your country on IRCC's official tool ↗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.
Check current figures on Home Affairs' official tool ↗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.
European Commission, Applying for a Schengen Visa ↗Already have a refusal to understand instead?
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