Just saw following message in a group. Pl send it to your local MPs to expedite inland PNP.
Hello Mr. Dhaliwal,
I hope this email finds you in good spirit.
I am writing to you to raise an important issue that needs urgent attention of Immigration and Refugees Minister.
As you are well aware immigrants are playing a vital role in contributing to Canadian economy. The pandemic affected the immigration applications processing last year and IRCC has not yet fully come out of the COVID-19 impact. However, in order to achieve immigration targets IRCC introduced some additional measures which include the new pathway for Temporary Residence to Permanent residence and also the historical lowering of CRS score for Canadian Experience Class in February 2021 draw. IRCC has also deployed additional resources in addition to diverting existing resources to process the applications recently received and as a result we can see recent CEC applicants are getting final approvals of their PR cases with 2-3 months.
While these steps are really commendable, they have caused a sense of deprivation and injustice among the PNP inland candidates who have been waiting for the decisions on their PR cases for quite long time. These applicants have otherwise higher CRS scores than the recent CEC draws, they have nominations from provinces, they have been employed in different fields for long time and have secure jobs, and they have been paying taxes. They have also paid their PNP fee in addition to their PR applications fee.
Being one such applicant, I can tell you that we feel it is not just that our applications are either not being processed or processed at a lower speed than the recent CEC applicants who have lower CRS score than us, who entered the Express Entry Pool much later than us, who do not have guaranteed jobs in Canada and still IRCC has diverted resources to finalise their applications while leaving the PNP inland applicants waiting for uncertain period of time. Most of our applications are stuck at “security not started” stage.
I would appreciate if you could raise this issue with the Minister for Immigration to rationalise the resource distribution to finalise all inland applications (including inland PNP) on first come first serve basis. No doubt COVID-19 has impacted everything but when we see other applicants getting their PR cases approved within 2-3 months as against the previous-COVID processing time of 6 months, we do get depressed that the COVID-19 impact seems selective.
I hope you will take this up with the Immigration Minister and the Minister will look into this issue and order finalising the pending PNP-Inland applications first.
Regards,