Canadian Immigration Permanent Resident Application Approval Rates

Last Updated on March 7, 2012 by Steven Meurrens

From the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration Report. I assume the Applications Processed (excluding withdrawals) should read 336,407.

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Average	Rounded
Applications received	424,265	458,175	452,874	421,442	424,282	436,208	435,000
Applications processed (excluding withdrawals)	352,571	36,407	339,659	437,278	408,366	374,856	375,000
Applications withdrawn	30,986	23,104	27,870	50,964	41,285	34,842	35,000
Applications approved	258,755	252,387	249,606	267,015	281,087	261,770	260,000
Applications denied	93,816	84,020	90,053	170,263	127,279	113,086	115,000
Approval rate	73%	75%	73%	61%	69%	70%	70%