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Isn't that a problem that should have been thought of before rolling this program out? IRCC can't even acknowledge that.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to introduce the sponsor of stop-immigration-lottery petition Igor Wolford! I am glad Igor decided to go his own way, as opposed to spending more time on this forum, and that he found a media outlet that would listen...

Apparently Hossein spoke at 2018 Canadian Immigration Forum that took place in Ottawa on May 30-31 and said that IRCC is working on changes to PGP sponsorship. Does anyone know anything? Immigration Call Center employees are also giving callers information that there could be changes in 2019.

Makes sense. Thanks. So 4parents who started this conversation has not been seen since April 22, is this going anywhere?

Question: When a PR arrives under Express Entry, are they immediately eligible to participate in a lottery if they have the required income, but it is not from Canadian sources. In other words, if one could show income for the past three years from UK or US or Australia, that would satisfy an...

""A significant development in recent decades is that growth in potential output has been on a generally downward trend in most major advanced economies, including Canada, largely owing to the aging of our populations," Schembri of the Bank of Canada said in a speech to the Ottawa Economics...

Thanks for clarifying. So if there was a quota of 5K applications for PGP prior to the increase to 10K, what was the quota on visas? BTW, I am not sure IRCC has a firm position on why they changed the PGP application intake. Here is the line from the response prepared by IRCC in response to my...

Leave this comment for yourself or for somebody else... "In 2016, 7.5 million people — about 21.9 per cent of the total population — reported being foreign-born individuals who immigrated to Canada." Shall we start being thankful to ourselves for propping up this country, whose main source of...

Nobody is saying that FIFO cannot be modified to serve the purpose. Your mention of one national address is clearly something to deal with. Give each province one address. And better still (by the way from the same memo): Electronic applications intake is a modernized approach that is...

Not sure we need to assume that the lottery is here to stay. IRCC is well aware that your position is in the minority. From the same memo: Historical data show that a majority (73%) of the respondents to on-line consultations conducted during the pause on intake of applications (November 2011 to...

This kind of information does not come with a link. This is called access to information request. As for the other two cons - one is irrelevant since they chose not to accept applications first and then do the lottery, so the burden on the system of accepting a large number of applications is...

Here is the excerpt from the memo that was written to the old Imm Minister by IRCC. Apparently, there were only two pros for the system one of which was to stop couriers from delivering applications and one of the (three) cons questioned the equity and fairness of the system: Option 3: Accept...