Congrats again buddy,
Assume it was hard to go back an implement FIFO accurately for 40,000 applicants. The whole purpose was to try to decrease the amount of time spent on administration so hey likely did their best and started exact FIFO this year.
Dear, what are you talking about? ppl applied before, with and after me, all get hearing and nothing for me yet. I witnessed more than 20 one come after me and got hearings and I'm still waiting and you keep saying FIFO, nothing called FIFO, not this year, not a year before and never will be. It's normal Canadian, you got to Brampton or Toronto to book a road test, they refuse to book and ask you to wait for a year although you have overseas DL,, you go to Oakville or Guelf things are easy and they consider your DL and book your test. I say that because I shocked by this country and no words will change that for me. Maybe I will never get hearing given this mentality and maybe I will join the thousands of legacy climents.
If you actually read my post I said that it was likely hard to implement exact FIFO the 40000 people waiting so it likely is only correct for this year's applicants. People have unrealistic expectations of Canada. I'm sorry for your experience but given a large number of recent asylum seekers who have walked across an irregular border not sure what people expect from the immigration system.
It is FIFO from now on and almost FIFO for other applicants. With such a large number of applicants there are always some unitenational errors. It is unfortunate that it seems to be your file. They are trying their best and the goal of FIFO is to process applications faster and not waste time and resources sorting applicants into categories. These sort of problems are very typical of the Canadian government. Things go missing or you wait longer than others so you just have to learn to check up on your file once in a while and be patient. My advice to everyone no matter what the circumstance is to be polite, be as nice as possible to the person answering calls and don't call too much. The person answering calls can try to help you out or they can go out of their way to be unhelpful if you are always wasting their time or being rude. This is true of all government organizations and most companies.
Nice, then we are now legacy claimant as the FIFO is for new applications only.
That's far from the truth. Legacy claimants waited 5 years or more to get processed. I believe you have been waiting less than 1.5 years. You are also not the only one who has waited this long. Yes FIFO has been implemented but there was no point in wasting resources making sure 40,000 people were in exact FIFO order. They did their best to process people in the right order but decided to use resources to process claims and not to make sure all 40,000 were in exact order. You have been provided with welfare if you need it, a lawyer if you can't afford one, health care and a work permit while you wait. If you are not happy with Canada and the Canadian government you are free to leave.
I'm already working since day one of getting the WP, I don't even have time to reply for yesterday, Trust me, I wish I could leave and all what Im going tell you is ''I hope you will never experience this experience''.
You will find that Canadians are used to waiting and not complaining. Happens all the time. You seem be doing well. Keep working hard while you wait. That's all you can do. Canada is not a perfect country. Given that we are receiving double and soon to be triple the amount of normal asylum seekers (especially through irregular borders which leads to even more resources being needed) people have to be a bit more realistic about how much Canada can handle. The media may portray Canada as some sort of utopian society but anyone living here would say they are lucky but can point out many shortcomings. If you look at many other countries where people have sought asylum you will find other situations of even longer delays, no access to welfare or healthcare, no work permit until acceptance, etc. A. few years ago you wouldn't even have had access to healthcare as a refugee. The refugee system is far from perfect but you are part of the lucky group who is waiting in a safe country.
Hi Man,
be positive and grateful,
