kennerve said:
That is indeed scary. Would you or anyone knows what are the hot categories as at now (minus those already cap and no longer accepting) so that we have a "feel" on where we are?
You should visit the webpage:- http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/complete-applications.asp
As you can observe as per latest update on this page (on 16th December), total of only 16109 applications [11,544(accepted) +4,565 (pending review)=16109] are with CIO. So, it is really difficult that rest of the 8891-applications will be counted only with in a period of two months. Whereas in total of around 5-6-months only 16109-application are received. So, it seems that there was an average rate of receipt was roughly 3000-applications per month. Whereas the rate of receipt of applications at CIO is declined in November and December, if we consider that the numbers entered in the excel sheet of this forum are representative of the show happening at CIO so maximum of applications that will be received in the month of November, and December hopefully will not be more then 5000-applications. Moreover our NOC-0113 has received only a total of 227+178 = 405-applications. Therefore our applications would have been opened prior to filling up of the CAP.
Regards,George
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