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Average time to permanent residency(in months)

Start-up Visa Program, Entrepreneur & QIIP

Application Trends | Approval Rates

  • The SUV program started as a pilot program in 2013 and became permanent in April 2018.

  • Approval volumes nearly tripled the following year, from 231 in 2018 to 640 in 2019.

  • Since then, however, approvals ground to a halt, primarily due to the stringent travel restrictions placed on Vietnamese, Indian, and Chinese nationals, the top three applicant nationalities, explain much of the decline.

  • Approval rates range over ~80%

Approvals by country of origin 2015 to Q1 2021*

Global Stats

Canada Federal Start-up Visa Program
vs.
US EB-5 Regional Center Investment Visa Program

Approval Time (in months)