Each week, Canada's immigration authority quietly updates a set of numbers that shape the plans of hundreds of thousands of people — among them, a vast population of Indian applicants waiting to work, study, or visit. The latest estimates place work permits at ten weeks, study permits at five, and visitor visas at just under a month, figures that are neither promises nor mere guesses, but a living reflection of institutional capacity meeting human aspiration. In the gap between an administrative target and a real-world timeline lives the particular uncertainty that defines the immigrant experi