IRCC Call Centre Services

Top questions from our callers

• How can I check the status of my application?
• How can I get a PR card?
• How can I come to Canada as a visitor, worker or student?
• How do I sign my online visa application?
• How do I pay for my online visa application?
• What do I do if I run into technical problems with my online visa application?

What else do you need help with?

Still haven’t found what you’re looking for?

Call centre

You can contact IRCC through the following options if you have submitted an application from within Canada or online and:

• the normal processing time for your application has passed and you cannot verify the status of your application using the online application status tool or
• you wish to report important changes about your application, such as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, adoptions, changes in job status or
• you need urgent processing or
• you would like to make a refugee claim

IRCC Contact Options:

• IRCC Web form
• Telephone number: 1-888-242-2100 (only from within Canada)
  • Automated telephone service (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
    If you have a touch-tone telephone, you can listen to pre-recorded information about IRCC programs, and check the status of your application.
  • Call Centre agents - Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., your local time, except for statutory holidays. Services are available in French and English.

If you are hearing impaired, or you have a speech impediment and use a text telephone, you can access the TTY service from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. your local time by calling 1-888-576-8502.