alijpro said:
It's taking so long because they are filtering out ineligible forms and all those 10K lottery winners will be able to apply. Even if someone from them later decided not to submit an application they will have a way to pass on the spot to someone else.. like there will be a list B as well... you will see it soon.
Completely 100% wrong. There was no way for IRCC to check income or co-signer information based on what was etnered in lottery, so there was no way to see if people were actually eligible. The only thing they did for past several months was remove all duplicate entries.
This is already verified by the many people just on this forum who don't qualify, but have received lottery spots.
Also there is no time to run infinite re-draws to fill ineligible spots. First round of apps won't be received until end of July. Then it will take a few months to go through 10K apps to see who is eligible or ineligible. So if you gave another 3 months to pick new names and do a next round, it would already be in 2018. Plus of that round, tons more would be ineligible.
Just count on 1 round this year, MAXIMUM 2 if they do a very quick check of the first round apps for income eligibility, but I highly doubt they are this efficient.