Which Days Does VFS Send Canada Passports Back? The Weekday Batch Pattern

If you are waiting for your stamped Canadian visa, you probably check the tracker every morning. Some days hundreds of passports go out. Then two or three days are quiet and it feels like everything has stopped. Usually nothing has stopped. Passports leave VFS India in batches, and those batches follow a weekday pattern.

These figures come from Blue Dart's public tracking of 53,250 Canadian visa passports that VFS India sent back, with dispatches from 6 July 2026 onwards. Data runs to 14 October 2026. The wait is counted from the day you hand your passport in at VFS (the date at the start of your tracking ID) to the day VFS sends it back by Blue Dart.

Passports go out on weekdays, and Mondays are the biggest

Here is how many passports VFS sent back on each day of the week over the last two months, all centres together:

Only weekdays appear. Monday is clearly the heaviest day, Tuesday and Wednesday are close behind, and Thursday and Friday are much lighter. In practice, the start of the week is when most passports leave.

The biggest single days tell the same story. Of the eight largest dispatch days in the last two months, four were Mondays, two were Tuesdays and two were Wednesdays. None was a Thursday or a Friday.

The data does not show why Mondays are bigger. It could be how the visa office returns stamped passports to VFS, or how VFS packs them, but nothing in Blue Dart's tracking tells you which. What you can see is that it keeps happening.

A quiet few days, then a jump

Look at the last few weeks of dispatch days:

The end of September was quiet: 480 on Tuesday 29 September, 444 on Wednesday 30 September, 700 on Thursday 1 October. Then the list jumps straight to Monday 5 October, with no dispatch day in between. If you were waiting that week, it would have felt like a stall.

It wasn't. Monday 5 October sent 1,182 and Tuesday 6 October sent 1,115. And the typical wait for those passports was 17 and 15 days, not far from the 13 to 14 days of the quiet week before. The queue didn't grow much; it simply came out in a lump.

The same thing happened on a bigger scale in September. On 16 September VFS sent 2,453 passports and on 21 September it sent 2,650, far more than any normal day. Those two batches carried passports that had typically waited 22 and 18 days. After them, the typical wait on each dispatch day settled at about 14.

How to read the tracker without panicking

When you open your centre's page on the tracker, keep these points in mind:

1. Look at the week, not the day. A single day with few or no dispatches tells you very little. Compare this Monday-to-Friday with last week.
2. Expect Thursday and Friday to be lighter. That is normal in this data. A slow end of the week is not a sign that your centre has stopped.
3. Watch the typical wait on each dispatch day. If the number of passports drops but the typical wait stays about the same, the pace hasn't really changed. It's when the typical wait keeps rising, day after day, that things are slowing.
4. Count from your own hand-in date. In the last 7 days, 4,918 passports were sent back. Half had waited 14 days or less, but 9 in 10 took up to 27 days. So if your hand-in date is two weeks old, you are right in the middle, not late.
5. Remember the gaps in the data. Only passports sent back by Blue Dart are counted, roughly a third of the total. Ones collected in person don't appear. And there is no visa type: visitor, study, work and PR passports all look the same.

Smaller centres are lumpier. Kolkata sent 294 passports in the last 30 days and Pune 439, against 5,277 at Jalandhar. At a small centre, a day or two with nothing going out is even more normal. If you want a steadier picture, look at all centres combined, then check your own centre against the others on the comparison page.

Every centre moves together

The batch pattern isn't one centre's habit. In the last 7 days, the typical wait for passports sent back was 14 days at most centres, 13 at Chandigarh, Kolkata and Pune, and 11 at New Delhi. When all ten centres line up like this, the timing is most likely set at the visa office that stamps the passports. IRCC publishes nothing about this step, so the data cannot say why.

You can check your own centre directly: Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Kolkata.

What this means if you are handing in now

• Your passport will most likely leave on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Those days carry most of the dispatches. If Thursday and Friday pass quietly, wait for the next Monday before worrying.
• Plan for about two weeks to dispatch, with a long tail. Half of recent passports went out within 14 days, but 9 in 10 within 27. Don't book a fixed flight until yours has left VFS.
• Add a few days for delivery. In the last 30 days, Blue Dart delivered 54% of passports the same or next day, half within 1 day and 9 in 10 within 3 days.
• A quiet week isn't a stopped week. In late September a run of small days was followed by two days of over a thousand each, at about the same wait.
• If most of your hand-in date is back and yours isn't, you may be in the slow tenth. The data shows when passports leave, never why one is slow. IRCC's web form is the place to ask, not VFS.

The numbers update every morning from Tuesday to Saturday. Find your centre and hand-in date on the live tracker to see how many passports from your day are already on their way.