Correction: pre-2015, not pre-2014.
And looking at the trend, it seems they'll be done with the backlog in 2/3 months.
However, there are two other factors coming into play:
- increased intake of refugees this year means number of EE ITAs, if it does go up, might hover around 1000 again (until the end of the year),
- if the immigration target for economic immigrants is met with the backlog, there might not be a big change in the number of ITAs sent out, until some time next year.