profiler said:
I see. I asked, because it seemed odd for the government to discriminate. I can offer this: You may see 800 of the 80,000 applicants on here. Unfortunately, it's hard to extrapolate performance data based on the forum. I do understand the desire to know what's happening -- I feel it too. But I cannot draw the conclusion that everyone from europe is being processed, and not my wife (who is from Russia).
I totally get your frustration, and I encourage you to order your case notes, and hold on -- the end is coming for everyone...
Actually there are two main reasons of the delay:
Reason 1: Those applications waiting for too long are at the Background, in particular, the security check stage. This step has a lot of discrimination involved in it. Arabs for example and in particular Muslims, as well as non Arab Muslims wait longer because the government has to assume they are terrorists before it proves the opposite. I may sound ridiculous, but unfortunately they themselves admit it. Security checks take longer based on the ethnicity and religion.
You may want to think about this question. Why is the average processing time for Afghanistan 23 months while that for Spain is 10 months?
Reason 2: This is for Lebanon and Jordan mainly. You know Canada brought over 50 thousand Syrian Refugees since 2015. Most of these applications were processed in Lebanon and in Jordan. Although more staff were employed to handle the extra applications, there is still too many applications relative to the number of employees working on them. Hence, delay.
