Monija said:
FSW2014 had 25000 spots available and that number wasn't reached at the end of the year.
CEC had 8000 spots quota filled at the end of October.
Requirements for these programs were not changed, so how it is possible that suddenly there are 40000 or more people who qualify, has all the documents (ielts, ECA etc) ready and want to immigrate?
However, FSW 2014 also had NOC-based caps, and some of the NOCs filled up pretty quickly. It's possible that if, for example, the popular programming NOCs weren't capped, the total number reached would have been higher. And I think that some NOCs couldn't qualify for FSW 2014 but are now eligible under EE, and the FST program is now also lumped together in the same pool, as well as CEC. Also, the hypothetical 40k number isn't the number of <i>eligible</i> profiles; a part (potentially a large part) of them may not have the documents ready at the moment but still have a profile. I wish CIC would have finally published some statistics. All we have so far is:
- reasonable, but not proven, assumption that profile IDs represent the number of candidates in the pool;
- a suspicious 3k/10k number from the Star;
- extrapolations from the spreadsheet.
Unfortunately, none of those are definitive.