Citizenship test: Collective action required, or expect endless delays, years. Example of the effective lobbyng of people awaiting spousal sponsorship

[blingyrie]

I usually don’t like to waste my precious time or energy getting involved in useless arguments on this forum, but for you I’m making an exception. I sure hope one of us here is a shrink so he can tend to you. I’ve seen way too many of your likes on this forum. Very sad indeed. Whatever happened to compassion and kindness? This forum is meant to gather people who are pursuing the same goal so they can help and lift each other up, not the opposite. If you can’t help or lift someone up, just be quiet. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say nothing at all. It’s as simple as that. Instead of sitting behind your keyboard and judging people and their situations, I suggest you take a master class on how to be a good human. There, wasted 20 seconds of my time on you. I’ll never get those back. Hope you’re proud of yourself.

I wrote a stellar response to this rubbish you wrote but I can see it’s been deleted by your group to make you look good. Anyways, try searching for all your historical commentary and see who is the judge.

 

[his*marty]

I wrote a stellar response to this rubbish you wrote but I can see it’s been deleted by your group to make you look good. Anyways, try searching for all your historical commentary and see who is the judge.

I hate when that happens....

 

[adey786]

When we get these documents, I need a few volunteers who can work with me to check the documents and summarize the key points. I am expecting this to be a very large set of documents - I can't summarize everything on my own.

We'll each take a portion of the pdf and then summarize all the key points / important information and post it here. I'll open a new thread for further discussions on this topic after we get the documents.

We can read the entire documentation later at our leisure.

If you are willing to volunteer, please PM me.

UPDATE : Actually, let's wait for the documents to arrive. If the amount of documentation is fairly less somehow, I'll do it on my own. Otherwise, we'll make this a group effort.

Count me in !!!

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Count me in !!!

Thank you. I'll let you know once I receive the documentation.

 

[piotrqc]

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/02/05/ottawa-will-continue-online-citizenship-tests-after-success-of-pilot-program.html

 

[FlyingLion]

When we get these documents, I need a few volunteers who can work with me to check the documents and summarize the key points. I am expecting this to be a very large set of documents - I can't summarize everything on my own.

We'll each take a portion of the pdf and then summarize all the key points / important information and post it here. I'll open a new thread for further discussions on this topic after we get the documents.

We can read the entire documentation later at our leisure.

If you are willing to volunteer, please PM me.

UPDATE : Actually, let's wait for the documents to arrive. If the amount of documentation is fairly less somehow, I'll do it on my own. Otherwise, we'll make this a group effort.

I am in

 

[adey786]

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/02/05/ottawa-will-continue-online-citizenship-tests-after-success-of-pilot-program.html

Standing ovation and Hats off to you, Ahsan and all those volunteerd.

All of you worked hard to make this happen.

 

[BOYX]

When we get these documents, I need a few volunteers who can work with me to check the documents and summarize the key points. I am expecting this to be a very large set of documents - I can't summarize everything on my own.

We'll each take a portion of the pdf and then summarize all the key points / important information and post it here. I'll open a new thread for further discussions on this topic after we get the documents.

We can read the entire documentation later at our leisure.

If you are willing to volunteer, please PM me.

UPDATE : Actually, let's wait for the documents to arrive. If the amount of documentation is fairly less somehow, I'll do it on my own. Otherwise, we'll make this a group effort.

Hey, glad I saw this post. I would gladly volunteer if needed.

Also, I presume you will create a new post for the discussion?

EDIT: Also, have you been looking at the Open Data already provided by IRCC? I am just about to go through it so I'll update if I find anything interesting.

 

[carol90]

When we get these documents, I need a few volunteers who can work with me to check the documents and summarize the key points. I am expecting this to be a very large set of documents - I can't summarize everything on my own.

We'll each take a portion of the pdf and then summarize all the key points / important information and post it here. I'll open a new thread for further discussions on this topic after we get the documents.

We can read the entire documentation later at our leisure.

If you are willing to volunteer, please PM me.

UPDATE : Actually, let's wait for the documents to arrive. If the amount of documentation is fairly less somehow, I'll do it on my own. Otherwise, we'll make this a group effort.

Count me in to

 

[piotrqc]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/federal-workers-paid-819-million-to-stay-home-during-the-pandemic-under-699-clause

 

[harirajmohan]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/federal-workers-paid-819-million-to-stay-home-during-the-pandemic-under-699-clause

Thanks.
Seems that we are surely not seeing the result of 95% of workforce return. 95% is prepandemic strength since few % of workers will be on leave at any given point. I dont think we have even 50% capacity as backlog for test and oath is increasing and in 2021, we still have test waiting candidates from 2019 hence no way its even 50%. We would see the same article updating the numbers again next year.
"That number was reduced by 95 per cent as of January 6, 2021, according to a background note obtained by The Canadian Press. "

 

[Interstellaraliens]

why care about the backlog when you can have more money flowing in by just piling up the applications

 

[sachinsoman1988]

Very remote chance that Jan-May 2020 applicants would reach the finish line in 2021. Rest of the 2020 mortals can hope to reach the finish line by end of 2022.

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Very remote chance that Jan-May 2020 applicants would reach the finish line in 2021. Rest of the 2020 mortals can hope to reach the finish line by end of 2022.

That's one way to think about it.

But there's another way... A more optimistic one :

Assuming (the likely fact) that the volume/number of test invitations will go up in the near future (since the pilot of the online citizenship was more than successful), we could see a rapid change in the number of test invites sent out and the number of people invited for test per week. I am extrapolating this from the fact that IRCC managed to send 7 months worth of applications to IP in just 4 months.

When they start sending out bulk test invites, this backlog will go down, albeit gradually. IMO, early - mid 2020 applicants might see their test invites in the second - third quarter of this year.

I've requested a bunch of corporate documentation from IRCC to see what they are doing to cut the backlog, among other things. I expect to receive this document sometime in March.

 

[sachinsoman1988]

Great work in trying to get info on what is happening behind doors. If we see a significant number of invites for Jan/Feb/Mar 2020 applicants in q1/q2 2021, there is a hope for 2020 applicants (atleast 50% of them!!) to finish the process in 2021.

I am 'Expect the worst and hope for the best' approach. What else we can do?? !!

That's one way to think about it.

But there's another way... A more optimistic one :

Assuming (the likely fact) that the volume/number of test invitations will go up in the near future (since the pilot of the online citizenship was more than successful), we could see a rapid change in the number of test invites sent out and the number of people invited for test per week. I am extrapolating this from the fact that IRCC managed to send 7 months worth of applications to IP in just 4 months.

When they start sending out bulk test invites, this backlog will go down, albeit gradually. IMO, early - mid 2020 applicants might see their test invites in the second - third quarter of this year.

I've requested a bunch of corporate documentation from IRCC to see what they are doing to cut the backlog, among other things. I expect to receive this document sometime in March.