How can they process so many applications in one month?

[Mandalorian]

A person from India applied around 14th June. His eligibility review started on 24th July.

I applied on 19th June and my eligibility review has not started as of 31st July.

Considering the current pace of application eligibility review and decisions pending since feb 2020. How will they give all decisions in the next 30 days? Is this really priority processing? How many applications are they processing on a daily basis? Any success stories from India in the last one month?

I was wondering the same. How could they possibly process so many files in a month?
Also, any one here knows the data of how many visa they process usually in a month? Pre-covid stats.

 

[Krupesh112]

My theory is that they have made the decision on applications. They're just not publishing it yet, reason could be to assess the number of people that require to be in Canada for studies(there are a lot of people with co-op and blended courses). This is the only reason that I can think of. I haven't seen any approvals even the agents that are well known and have 100s of applications sent on behalf of students. While this is disheartening but there's nothing we can do to help the situation.

Good point..!

 

[Ahadch3357]

As per the information available on this forum . Applications until June 14th have Medical Passed and eligibility review started. No information available after June 14th.

Applications from Bangladesh and Nigeria have received Stage 1 AIP. These promises made by IRCC is similar to one made by a corrupt politician.

I think there is just one guy sitting in the embassy and working just 2 hours a day with a slow PC and a dial-up connection with power cuts and a broken enter key on his keyboard, who also take 40 minutes lunch break and 2 cigarette breaks in those 2 hours.

Eligibility review of many Pakistani students, who applied in Feb/ March has started ( No Approval until now)

 

[costeltin]

Those who applied in March, their review have not been started yet how can June /July applicant expect to receive any update before Sept intake?

I think it depends on the region and the number of applicants. I applied in mid-March and got rejected beginning of July. Just reapplied today!

 

[jigzyy]

As per the information available on this forum . Applications until June 14th have Medical Passed and eligibility review started. No information available after June 14th.

Applications from Bangladesh and Nigeria have received Stage 1 AIP. These promises made by IRCC is similar to one made by a corrupt politician.

I think there is just one guy sitting in the embassy and working just 2 hours a day with a slow PC and a dial-up connection with power cuts and a broken enter key on his keyboard, who also take 40 minutes lunch break and 2 cigarette breaks in those 2 hours.

There are a lot of things that goes on behind the closed doors of embassies that the public isn't made aware of. Also, they aren't only working on Study permits in Visa offices. There are Express Entry applications, other PR applications, visitor applications, Work Permit applications, Super Visa Applications to name few. The number of applicants on this forum only sums up to 5%~10% per category maximum. There are ton more applications that happen every day for a lot of embassies. Add Covid19 and closures on top of that ... and you are witnessing what is happening now. There are a lot more agencies that does the work for embassies, which may not be working at the moment, like VFS Global. So a lot of information is not available for Visa officers to work on (Background checks, Security clearances etc, educational institutes are closed to verify your credentials, businesses are closed to verify employment histories and ton of other stuff).

Just to give you an idea, when I applied for my citizenship, it used to only take 4 months to finalize it BUT the thing is, rule was changed from 4 years eligibility period to 3 which made thousands more eligible to apply for citizenship. What was the result? They received 20,000 applications with in a period of 30 days (instead of 2-3000) and processing time sky rocketed. It took over 1 and half year to finalize the application.

Online applications that were suppose to be processed at an embassy which is closed due to Covid19 are getting transferred to different embassies which are open but operating with limited number of visa officers. Now they have backlog of their own applications plus the one that are getting transferred to them. This is normal practice to share the burden between different visa offices.

Corruption does happen on and off but don't compare it to the one back home. If you have problem with the way IRCC works or if you have slightest of the doubt that corruption is in place with these procedure, then why come here? Just withdraw the application and try somewhere else.

Remember, it's not your right to get visa but a privilege, by putting through an application or even getting a visa doesn't necessarily means that you have the right to enter a country, it's a privilege. Take it as is and a lot of worries will go away.

 

[moha87a]

I was wondering the same. How could they possibly process so many files in a month?
Also, any one here knows the data of how many visa they process usually in a month? Pre-covid stats.

you may use this link to look at study permits issued monthly

https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/90115b00-f9b8-49e8-afa3-b4cff8facaee

 

[moha87a]

I think it depends on the region and the number of applicants. I applied in mid-March and got rejected beginning of July. Just reapplied today!

Sorry to hear that , wish you better chance in this time

Please, could share reasons for rejections ??

I applied since Feb from Iraq through VFS complete application with no update till now

 

[costeltin]

not satis

Sorry to hear that , wish you better chance in this time

Please, could share reasons for rejections ??

I applied since Feb from Iraq through VFS complete application with no update till now

Thank you!

The usual dumb reason. Not satisfied that I will leave Canada.

 

[Raman91]

not satis


Thank you!

The usual dumb reason. Not satisfied that I will leave Canada.

Did you apply for GCMS notes to see what is the reason?

 

[vikrantsh30]

Hi everyone, I got a request on my application. The immigration officer has asked for "Education Transcripts: Original education transcripts"

I had applied under SDS and it was not asked in the list of documents I provided earlier. Anyway, does it mean I have to upload higher education, secondary education and graduation marksheets and passing certificates? Or just the graduation will do?

 

[costeltin]

Did you apply for GCMS notes to see what is the reason?

Yeah, that was not of much help either. Basically I got referred for having traveled to other countries before, including Canada.

 

[Mandalorian]

Hi everyone, I got a request on my application. The immigration officer has asked for "Education Transcripts: Original education transcripts"

I had applied under SDS and it was not asked in the list of documents I provided earlier. Anyway, does it mean I have to upload higher education, secondary education and graduation marksheets and passing certificates? Or just the graduation will do?

Upload them all. If you have done WES, you could submit that too. Make sure you upload them all as a single pdf file.

 

[thlzx]

Yeah, that was not of much help either. Basically I got referred for having traveled to other countries before, including Canada.

I can't understand IRCC's mindset.........

 

[mithun5991]

Hi everyone, I got a request on my application. The immigration officer has asked for "Education Transcripts: Original education transcripts"

I had applied under SDS and it was not asked in the list of documents I provided earlier. Anyway, does it mean I have to upload higher education, secondary education and graduation marksheets and passing certificates? Or just the graduation will do?

Hi @vikrantsh30

Do you mind sharing when you applied for Study Permit and from which country?

 

[vikrantsh30]

Hi @vikrantsh30

Do you mind sharing when you applied for Study Permit and from which country?

I applied from India under SDS in March. Had an upfront medical in February and provided biometrics on 13 March. Next update was on 25 June stating medical passed (review of eligibility started as well).
Then last Tuesday I provided update LOA as I had deferred from Summer to fall term.


If anyone has not uploaded their updated LOA or education certificates please do so at the earliest.