Between May 4, 2013, and April 30, 2014, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will consider no more than 5,000 complete FSW applications for processing. Within the 5,000 cap, they will consider no more than 300 applications per eligible occupation for processing within this same time frame.
Below is the tally of total applications received by Centralized Intake Office so far.
| Eligible Occupations | Received |
| 0211 Engineering managers | 300 |
| 1112 Financial and investment analysts | 300 |
| 2113 Geoscientists and oceanographers | 29 |
| 2131 Civil engineers | 207 |
| 2132 Mechanical engineers | 276 |
| 2134 Chemical engineers | 100 |
| 2143 Mining engineers | 5 |
| 2145 Petroleum engineers | 3 |
| 2144 Geological engineers | 49 |
| 2146 Aerospace engineers | 11 |
| 2147 Computer engineers (except software engineers/designers) | 300 |
| 2154 Land surveyors | 9 |
| 2174 Computer programmers and interactive media developers | 300 |
| 2243 Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics | 51 |
| 2263 Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety | 125 |
| 3141 Audiologists and speech-language pathologists | 8 |
| 3142 Physiotherapists | 208 |
| 3143 Occupational Therapists | 27 |
| 3211 Medical laboratory technologists | 140 |
| 3212 Medical laboratory technicians and pathologists' assistants | 56 |
| 3214 Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists | 14 |
| 3215 Medical Radiation Technologists | 29 |
| 3216 Medical Sonographers | 22 |
| 3217 Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists | 14 |
This is based on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website which was updated as of Nov 1, 2013. The numbers indicated is just an estimate and is not a real-time tally.
