Canada will grant 300.000 citizenship for the 2022-2023 year

[xuan]

Canadian citizenship to 300,000 people by 31 March, online applications for minors by year-end | Mint (livemint.com)

it's official guys:

To clear the backlog, the IRCC has hired 1,000 new staff members. Meanwhile, minors (those under the age of 18) will now be eligible to apply for citizenship online by the end of the year.

Everyone gonna be online at the end of the year!

 

[A_S]

Canadian citizenship to 300,000 people by 31 March, online applications for minors by year-end | Mint (livemint.com)

it's official guys:

To clear the backlog, the IRCC has hired 1,000 new staff members. Meanwhile, minors (those under the age of 18) will now be eligible to apply for citizenship online by the end of the year.

Everyone gonna be online at the end of the year!

I really want to believe the article my friend, but it is just to glorify the numbers for one's agenda in a one minute read. They are just close to 40% target in 6 months. If they really want to do an analysis on headcount and citizenship numbers over periods, then the breakdown should have been from 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 for readers and not removing periods in between.

 

[skner2022]

Prioritize the paper applications, WTF

 

[firstax]

Canadian citizenship to 300,000 people by 31 March, online applications for minors by year-end | Mint (livemint.com)

it's official guys:

To clear the backlog, the IRCC has hired 1,000 new staff members. Meanwhile, minors (those under the age of 18) will now be eligible to apply for citizenship online by the end of the year.

Everyone gonna be online at the end of the year!

The real question is if all applications are moved online, would IRCC do a first in-first out processing or would they do a modified first in-first out like they are presently doing? All we want is some fairness and transparency. They used online applicants as test subjects for their fantasy procjects. Hope they process online applications as fast as they are processing paper right now.

 

[armoured]

The real question is if all applications are moved online, would IRCC do a first in-first out processing or would they do a modified first in-first out like they are presently doing?

Full and complete first-in first-out means that the fastest application is no faster than the slowest.

So all applications will be held up by those that have problems, complications, bad documentation, additional info requests, etc.

You sure you want that?

 

[firstax]

Full and complete first-in first-out means that the fastest application is no faster than the slowest.

So all applications will be held up by those that have problems, complications, bad documentation, additional info requests, etc.

You sure you want that?

That's not what I meant. Do you think it's fair that people who applied in 2019/2020 are still waiting while people who applied on paper in 2022 are getting theirs done in 3 to 4 months? Or do you think it was fair for online applicants to wait 8 months to see any movement in their files while paper apps of early to mid-2022 are all done. We just want predictability and fairness. Of course if some apps have complications then that's different. but it would be nice to see some consistency in how applications are processed

 

[annabusdra]

That's not what I meant. Do you think it's fair that people who applied in 2019/2020 are still waiting while people who applied on paper in 2022 are getting theirs done in 3 to 4 months? Or do you think it was fair for online applicants to wait 8 months to see any movement in their files while paper apps of early to mid-2022 are all done. We just want predictability and fairness. Of course if some apps have complications then that's different. but it would be nice to see some consistency in how applications are processed

It’s not fair at all. But I would be careful to jump to conclusions and generalize. I know many paper applications who have been stuck for months and months, like 8-9 months with no news. Mine has been stuck for a solid 6 months, and it’s a very straightforward one.

 

[canvis2006]

Hopefully more quotas and more resources can help clear backlogs.

the CPC had capacity limits for decades that they could only process so many applications per yr with the staff that they had.
hopefully with everything moving online things will speed up so that more/faster computers and staff can br added that will speed things up.

also its easier to approve files online in batches rather than do each individual file.Hopefully they switch to online-only method so going fwd its only 1 type of all applications and nithing on paper

 

[armoured]

That's not what I meant. ... Of course if some apps have complications then that's different.

But, unfortunately, that's what you wrote. That is the only way strict first in, first out functions.

It sounds like what you want is modified first in, first out - like they are 'presently doing' (your language) - but for it to be more fair.

Which, you know, okay.

 

[atzquebec]

https://www.cicnews.com/2022/10/canadas-immigration-backlog-remains-at-2-6-million-people-1031451.html#gs.g39quk

 

[firstax]

It’s not fair at all. But I would be careful to jump to conclusions and generalize. I know many paper applications who have been stuck for months and months, like 8-9 months with no news. Mine has been stuck for a solid 6 months, and it’s a very straightforward one.

Yeah, we are basically asking for the same thing. If IRCC can process some 2022 paper applicants in 3 to 4 months then they can also clear out most of the 2019-2020 in 3 to 4 months. There's no real consistency in what to expect. I'm sure most people would want to get this over with and not wait for 4 years to process what can be done in 3 months.

 

[skner2022]

IRCC should withdraw all 2022 paper applications because they wasted paper.

 

[firstax]

But, unfortunately, that's what you wrote. That is the only way strict first in, first out functions.

It sounds like what you want is modified first in, first out - like they are 'presently doing' (your language) - but for it to be more fair.

Which, you know, okay.

Nuances my friend. We should not applaud mediocrity. IRCC has not lived up to expectations. Would it not have been fair for IRCC to tell us that they could only process a few Online applications because they are testing their systems? Do you think its fair that people are waiting since 2019 while people who applied in May-July 2022 already have citizenships?

I just want everyone to be treated fairly and within reason, of course, there are some applications that need more time but most straightforward applications should have an expectation on when they'll be processed.

Imagine people missing out on being with sick family members, jobs, and other opportunities just because IRCC was using their application to test their systems.

 

[firstax]

IRCC should withdraw all 2022 paper applications because they wasted paper.

Haha, don't say our thoughts out loud lol. Here I was thinking by applying online that I was saving the environment and also helping the IRCC staff by reducing the workload. I should have bought a clown suit with the money I saved from not printing countless pages for the paper application.

 

[armoured]

Nuances my friend. We should not applaud mediocrity. IRCC has not lived up to expectations. Would it not have been fair ...

Nuances, indeed. In no sense did I imply that current performance is good, acceptable, nor imply that it should not be more fair. It should be fixed.

But proposals that would objectively, unquestionably make it worse and have serious unintended consequences should be avoided. And strict first-in, first-out, as proposed by you, would do just that.