It's hard to say but that's an average so some will be done in 6 months and others will take 18 months.This is straight from their website.Yes, depending on the application and on the Visa Office, they can go over the 12 month timeframe. They aim to finish 80% of the application within 12 months, but I don't think IRCC is performing that well. For my VO, for instance, the processing times exceed 12 months very often; they take all the time they want to assess the application.
Family Class Priority (Overseas – spouses, common-law partners, conjugal partners and dependent children)
- Our service standard: process applications within 12 months
- Our target: meet the standard for at least 80% of applications submitted
- Our performance in 2017-2018: processed 73% of applications within the standard
- processed 80% of all applications in 15 months
- processed 80% of applications received since December 2016 in less than 12 months
- We expect faster processing as we finalize applications from before December 2016
- We introduced this service standard in April 2010