I’m trying to be very logical about the situation (even though IRCC may not relate to this):
•IRCC is still not close to meeting the overall 401,000 target for this year; last I checked, they are barely halfway into it.
•Other streams like the family, refugees and some categories of the economic stream including PNP are having serious deficits and a very high probability of not being met this year
• IRCC may decide not to follow the exact specific targets of each streams religiously and may be open to making up for deficits of some categories with surplus from another category. For example they plan to take in 20,000 Afghans on humanitarian grounds (when the humanitarian target for this year is actually 5,500)
•IRCC could expand the express entry intake for this year to cover ground for the target deficits of other streams. For example they might decide to land more federal high skilled workers (CEC + FSW + FST) this year than originally planned.
• It’s not feasible for IRCC to depend on CEC invites any time from September 29 to meet this year’s target because most would land next year at best. Why go through that hassle when they can easy land at least 30,000 FSW-O and PNP-O whose applications are finalized or close to being approved or even reissue COPRs to those that have expired COPRS when the border reopens?