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IRCC Latest Update on Online Testing for Citizenship - Good news ..But

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Hi All
IRCC confirming that they are scheduling citizenship tests on Microsoft Teams for urgent citizenship applications.
Below is the Link

IRCC Update on Twitter






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Great news
 
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piotrqc said:
Why great news ? ... It's only for few peoples, very rare. We still maintain preassures.
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I agree with most of the forum members here ..

First urgent processing account only a fraction of backlog.

We don't have exact data how many are completed and what stage this new virtual test is ?
 
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I would not even call this so-so news. So, what's happening here? IRCC never denied processing citizenship applications first on "exceptional" and then "urgent" basis. Now that this is surfacing after the protests it very much resembles an attempt to calm down the general public with some sort of a vested interest, i.e. those who wait. If those posts are inspired by that logic then whatever is being tweeted, shared otherwise is an attempt to buy even more time. What I can imagine coming is Mendicino's answer when asked the same question next time would look like "well, we heroically started testing via MS Teams. I did promise to put this option on the table and this is a matter of the coming months (2? 3? 36?) when it will be available to everyone in the line" without quoting the actual numbers of tests or the fact that testing is conducted only out of emergency. The tail will once again wag the dog.
 
And again, this to me only testifies the fact that they i) can't reach an agreement with the Unions and ii) the federal red tape isn't flexible enough to move the needle fast enough to be able to introduce a solution within months. There's of course zero unwillingness to have more Canadian citizens, but the govt considers being open and which is more important being able to admit its own inefficiency a weakness. I can't blame liberals for that, democrats would behave in a similar way in this situation. Just the sadness of life
 
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I seriously can’t stand the fact that kids are going to school, we are going to work and risking our health every single day but when it comes to the citizenship test, we just can’t get those 20 questions. My mom is not in Canada, 71, almost like completely alone and if she needs my help because of covid, things are gonna be so messed up. I miss her so much and during these difficult times, I feel like I don’t have freedom, I’m stuck in this situation! Because of something that I can not control! To be honest I don’t trust that I am guaranteed to enter Canada with my PR card anymore because of the pandemic. And I lost so many opportunities because of this issue. I lost almost all my 20s struggling, waiting and working hard patiently, just because of something that I can not control(my country of birth).

I would love to be in that demonstration in Ottawa by the way but I am in Calgary..

It’s ENOUGH!!!
 
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Total Number of Application Count rom Jan 2020- Till Now in this forum

Application Count - 1073
Urgent Application- 10
% of Urgent Application- 0.93 %. close to ~ 1%
I think Globally its hardly 3-5% if we consider outside the forum as well.

with 85K backlogs considering 5% urgent stands on 4250 .
IRCC should come up with some solution
 
Lex2019 said:
No doubt about that. The $1M question is which New Year :)
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Lol, I’m going to place my money on 2021. The only upside I’ve found in this whole pandemic situation is that so many things that were dragging their feet to get online are now being forced to do so.
 
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O'canada said:
Total Number of Application Count rom Jan 2020- Till Now in this forum

Application Count - 1073
Urgent Application- 10
% of Urgent Application- 0.93 %. close to ~ 1%
I think Globally its hardly 3-5% if we consider outside the forum as well.

with 85K backlogs considering 5% urgent stands on 4250 .
IRCC should come up with some solution
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85k backlog was around june. I think by now it would be around 115K
 
Everyone is talking about the actual deployment of these online tests.

What I am more interested in is the volume of these tests when they start. If these tests have minimal or shared proctors for the testing portion, then I imagine that the backlog of folks awaiting tests will be reduced in short order.

However, with the interviews still requiring 1:1 time with the immigration officers, then all this does is shift the bottleneck from being the resumption of tests to ‘pending interview with officers’. That necessarily isn’t the best outcome, but the most likely one if the IRCC staff hold their current pattern of not setting foot in their offices until they deem it safe to do so.
 
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