Big news -- A federal judge ruled in favour of 900 skilled worker applicants who sued the Minister for his decision to throw out the nearly 300,000 applications before Feb. 28 2008.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1211698--ottawa-loses-legal-battle-over-immigration-backlog
I don't know what effect it will have, or CIC will claim it will have on our applications, but the good news is the Minister was held accountable for throwing out applications lasting several years after a target was set of between 6-12 months.
It just goes to show if you're organized and willing to fight hard enough, change can be made!
There is a major opportunity here, as I have been in correspondence with the reporter over the past few months, and the only thing stopping him from writing an article about us was his editors.
But now that most of us are waiting longer than the 6-12 months that foreign worker applicants who won their lawsuit were told to wait, his editors may have a change of heart if you email him as I just did.
Nicholas Keung - nkeung@thestar.ca