Return to work in person '' Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: gradual reintegration pilots have started; others will follow in August. ''

[xichanmontreal]

According to this article from radio canada (The french version of CBC), the federal administrations have established plans to return to work in person in the office

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1721172/retour-bureau-teletravail-fonctionnaires-federaux-ottawa-plans

Here is what is sayed specifically about IRCC : (Translated from French)

• Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada : des pilotes de réintégration progressive ont débuté; d'autres suivront en août.

Translation :

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: gradual reintegration pilots have started; others will follow in August.


Does this mean a return to processing of pending citizenship applications, as well as resumption of in-person testing (with distancing measures)? ... We'll see .

 

[Mike263]

According to this article from radio canada (The french version of CBC), the federal administrations have established plans to return to work in person in the office

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1721172/retour-bureau-teletravail-fonctionnaires-federaux-ottawa-plans

Here is what is sayed specifically about IRCC : (Translated from French)

• Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada : des pilotes de réintégration progressive ont débuté; d'autres suivront en août.

Translation :

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada: gradual reintegration pilots have started; others will follow in August.


Does this mean a return to processing of pending citizenship applications, as well as resumption of in-person testing (with distancing measures)? ... We'll see .

Early feedback on the reintegration pilots

Source: https://www.cic.gc.ca/emp/msg/20200713-eng.asp

 

[Das67]

If you see the below from the article :

"Dans une déclaration écrite envoyée à CBC, le SCTSecrétariat du Conseil du Trésor affirme qu’à de rares exceptions près, la plupart des fonctionnaires fédéraux travailleront de la maison dans un proche avenir. "

That says it all in the near future most of the fed employees will keep working from home. I do not think in-person testing will resume soon (hope I am wrong ). If they can at least move the testing to online that will be a good start.

 

[duckduckgoose]

At this point, only online testing will save us. it seems IIRC is unlikely to resume physical testing

 

[xichanmontreal]

At this point, only online testing will save us. it seems IIRC is unlikely to resume physical testing

Seems to be in process, this may be what the august pilots are talking about.

See here :

https://www.cic.gc.ca/emp/msg/20200713-eng.asp


'' We have started a new Transformation journey lab to look at improvements in the citizenship business line, and are ramping up efforts to modernize our digital platform and deliver more of our business online. ''

 

[AshesNdust]

At this point, they might want to look into lowering the age of not having to test, maybe drop it from 55 to 50 or even 45. That might take some pressure off them.