Re: how authenticate is ***** ?
The target quota planned by CIC for FSW 2013 is set to 55,300 (This number is solely not for applicants only. It includes applicants, spouses and children.)
However for Canadian Experience Class, the plan is to increase the quota from 7,000 to 10,000.
Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/2012-11-02.asp.
The frustrating part about the FSW 2013 is that they have yet to announce any sort of official numbers/guidelines or anything related to this.
If their goal is to make this FSW program swift and efficient so that their wont be any backlogs, then i don't know how it makes sense by not providing any guidelines sooner.
Credential assessment, background checks etc, they all take time. So, if they wait till end to announce anything, then I guess it is going to be a worst stampede than in the Black Friday.