My friend also wrote to this group of people to support us
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Mr. Mendicino:
I was shared your email addresses.
For your last days in office before the election, I urge you to solve citizenship processing backlogs for all prospective Canadians. Should be the last (or first) nice thing you do for the citizenship program.
We all see that citizenship is a lower priority than immigration as the Minister and IRCC are doing everything possible to meet the immigration levels. As most of the processing is carried out in CPC-Sydney, then be stuck at local offices, you should audit inventories at these local offices asap.
In the USA, most federal programs don't stop. Citizenship processing has never been slowed down. Fed employees are still showing up full hours for work. Same for Australia. Who gives Canadian public servants a special right not to do their job, affect other people's lives, and not being held accountable for their actions?
I know there is still a debate on when Canadian federal employees should be forced to return to work. Right now, because of COVID, some offices take advantage of working from home for their own flexible working hours. Citizenship processing in Canada is so human and paper-dependent. The system is messy, bottlenecks are everywhere in the stages where it should have been easiest - scheduling tests and Oaths, as most works are done by CPC-S already.
Looking forward into the future, when the e-app platform for citizenship application is fully functional, you should consider getting rid of the local office model completely, and centralize the citizenship processing from start to end using the AI & centralized model, to make sure the process is fair, consistent, orderly (FIFO) and does not discriminate anyone, any country or any racial profiles, like right now when you give the decision making authority to local offices. It is not efficient, costs more, and causes a lot of stress for the public. Unless and until these local office staff are threatened for job security, they may not want to work as supposed to.
In the meantime, please fix the problem with all paper file inventory and give a deadline for each local office to give all these people Oath invitations by the end of 2021 because things have been delayed for 2 years already. Hold bigger virtual ceremonies, simplify the Oath process, cut back on steps that are not necessary. Give them a hard deadline so they know they must work.
One day, it is foreseeable IRCC will employ AI to do all this processing easily as other countries have done (kudos to IRCC for having started all this). Conservatives if taking over will have a huge staff cut.
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2021/amid-languishing-numbers-canadas-citizenship-process-needs-to-be-modernized/
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Mr. Mendicino:
I was shared your email addresses.
For your last days in office before the election, I urge you to solve citizenship processing backlogs for all prospective Canadians. Should be the last (or first) nice thing you do for the citizenship program.
We all see that citizenship is a lower priority than immigration as the Minister and IRCC are doing everything possible to meet the immigration levels. As most of the processing is carried out in CPC-Sydney, then be stuck at local offices, you should audit inventories at these local offices asap.
In the USA, most federal programs don't stop. Citizenship processing has never been slowed down. Fed employees are still showing up full hours for work. Same for Australia. Who gives Canadian public servants a special right not to do their job, affect other people's lives, and not being held accountable for their actions?
I know there is still a debate on when Canadian federal employees should be forced to return to work. Right now, because of COVID, some offices take advantage of working from home for their own flexible working hours. Citizenship processing in Canada is so human and paper-dependent. The system is messy, bottlenecks are everywhere in the stages where it should have been easiest - scheduling tests and Oaths, as most works are done by CPC-S already.
Looking forward into the future, when the e-app platform for citizenship application is fully functional, you should consider getting rid of the local office model completely, and centralize the citizenship processing from start to end using the AI & centralized model, to make sure the process is fair, consistent, orderly (FIFO) and does not discriminate anyone, any country or any racial profiles, like right now when you give the decision making authority to local offices. It is not efficient, costs more, and causes a lot of stress for the public. Unless and until these local office staff are threatened for job security, they may not want to work as supposed to.
In the meantime, please fix the problem with all paper file inventory and give a deadline for each local office to give all these people Oath invitations by the end of 2021 because things have been delayed for 2 years already. Hold bigger virtual ceremonies, simplify the Oath process, cut back on steps that are not necessary. Give them a hard deadline so they know they must work.
One day, it is foreseeable IRCC will employ AI to do all this processing easily as other countries have done (kudos to IRCC for having started all this). Conservatives if taking over will have a huge staff cut.
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2021/amid-languishing-numbers-canadas-citizenship-process-needs-to-be-modernized/
