Kclass1 said:
I doubt that you guys read the caption below. If you go through the article, you'd worry less and just be a bit more patient. Apparently, the applicants are not the only people frustrated by the delays but even the Parliament members from the ruling Liberals. The delays have become a "mess" that has to be addressed once and for all.
www.hilltimes.com/news/news/2016/02/01/liberal-mps-put-heat-on-mccallum-to-address-immigration-processing-mess-say-lengthy/45087
God bless you for this finding and the link. It speaks volume about what have been analyzed here. This is an excerpt from the link that really interest me because I have mentioned it before but I might have sounded too confident but it is been confirmed :
"During the Jan. 24 caucus meeting, Mr. McCallum and his departmental officials conducted a briefing for MPs about the causes of the delay and introduced them to some departmental resources that can help MPs in serving their constituents on immigration files.
Sources told The Hill Times that Liberal MPs recognize that Mr. McCallum and the Immigration Department is focused on the politically sensitive Syrian refugees file, but they also want swift action on Immigration applications in the regular streams.
During the last election campaign, the Liberals had promised to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of last year, but they missed the deadline and are now aiming to achieve this goal by the end of February. As of last week, about 14,000 have arrived in Canada. Because of the high-profile domestic and international implications of the Syrian refugee file, Mr. McCallum and the Immigration Department have been in the media spotlight for months. The Syrian refugee crisis is considered the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II and it’s estimated 12 million have been displaced as a result of the civil war in Syria.
Meanwhile, the Immigration application processing times are different for different categories including family class, economic class, refugee and humanitarian and compassionate classes.
In the case of parents and grand parents sponsorship applications, the department is currently processing the ones that were filed on or before Nov. 4, 2011, according to the departmental website. The processing time for spouses or common-law partners living inside Canada is 26 months and for the ones outside of Canada is 17 months.
In the economic class, if an application was filed between 2008 and 2010, the processing time is 67 months while for the ones filed between 2010 and 2014, is 13 months.
Canada takes in about 260,000 immigrants each year in all categories, combined. The statistics were not available for last year, but in 2014, 66,661 received Canadian immigration in the ‘family class’ category, 165,089 in the ‘economic class’ category and 23,286 in the ‘refugee class’ category, according to the departmental website. In 2013, Canada took in a total of 259,023 immigrants including 81,843 in family class, 148,155 in economic immigrant class and 23,831 in refugees class."
The link confirms the Syrian effect, length of time for visa processing for each categories which also cut across family sponsorship PR, spousal PR, refugee class etc. To buttress my point on quota, around 260, 000 is what they bring in each year. I mentioned this earlier. Imagine 25,000 of these going to the Syrians. Hmmmm!!! That quota will definitely be affected for the on going immigration year. It was never planned for because Harper was the one in power then and never promised any 25,000. 259,023 immigrants were issued visa for 2013. This figure is for all the categories. Nothing like EE and Syrian effects then. Add these two "guys" to their plans, they would probably have to shift grounds to measure up. 255, 036 immigrants for 2014, they do not have the one for last year yet. It will be around these figures too. I believe that it is very deliberate because they cannot take more than they can chew for each year.
Who knows, AVO might have just few visas allocated to them and they are considering the best possible way to make it go round. With all of these, we should know how to direct our prayers; the top needs to get their acts together. It is well.
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