I was wondering, like Africa or south America, are there not parts of India that were French colonies or something, If yes don't the people in those regions speak French? Like the Quebec francophones, we have a small Spanish speaking and very tinier Portuguese speaking population in the Philippines, legacy of the Colonizers, but the population is going down and almost vanishing, unlike the Quebec government there is no political interference to grow or revive that.IRCC has actually lowered CLB7's definition for TEF from advanced B2 to lower B2. This makes it relatively easy for a lot of folks to score CLB7 in french.
I know way too many who reached advanced B2 in 6-9 months. We've so many examples on this forum alone from 2022 when learning french wasn't even this popular, I get pings from 2-3 people each month on how I learned french, surprisingly these folks are already at B1/lower B2 and were trying to reach advanced B2. Indians, Chinese, Filipinos make a very competitive cohort imo and they live a relatively distraction free, goal oriented life. Even a small fraction of them is enough to consume the significant francophone quota. If we set lambdas aside, IRCC has opened up accessible CRS to ~3B people who previously never took significant interest before.