Interesting article in today's news
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This report largely summarizes OB 476B, which came out about a month ago. Because it's essentially "old news" (& a summary of CIC talking points) being presented as a "scoop", it makes me wonder about the politics behind the story. I am suspicious that there may be other news coming out soon which is less flattering to the CIC. This story, blaming the problems in the citizenship process on "dormant applications" & applicants who don't "take citizenship seriously", may be intended as to "spin" the other news before it comes out.
I wonder if the timing has anything to do with the effective date for enforcing this;eileenf said:
No-shows for a test and/or an interview with a citizenship official —New (effective September 3, 2013)
Prior to OB 476, applicants who could not attend their test and/or interview with CIC staff were scheduled for a second test/interview session or, in some cases, scheduled for a hearing with a citizenship judge. The first iteration of OB 476 introduced pilot procedures whereby an RQ was triggered if the applicant did not show up at two citizenship tests or interviews. This procedure is no longer in effect.
New Procedures – Administrative closure of applications
Effective September 3, 2013, applicants will be sent one test/interview notice. If the applicant does not show up at the appointed place and time, and fails to provide an acceptable reason for this absence, their application will be administratively closed.
The citizenship test/interview notice has been amended accordingly and is to be used from this point forward.
The amended test/interview notice informs applicants that they have 60 days from the date of the first appointment to provide CIC with an acceptable reason for failing to attend. If an acceptable reason is not provided within 60 days, the applicant is to be mailed the attached final notice letter. It serves as a last reminder for the applicant to contact CIC if they have an acceptable reason for failing to attend their test/interview. This notice gives the applicant 30 days to do so. Once the 30-day period has elapsed, and no response has been provided, the application is to be closed immediately in GCMS.
I do not blame applicants for the problems in the CIC citizenship process. “The citizenship application process has been bogged down for too long by those that do not take Canadian citizenship seriously,” is a ridiculous assessment of the causes of the record backlogs and delays.gta-local said:
12k is 3.4% of the backlog. 3.4% does not explain or excuse the cic's mismanagement of the citizenship process. This article goes along with the CIC leadership's efforts to shift the responsibility and blame for the record backlogs and delays onto the very same people who are victimized by the backlogs and delays. The CIC administers the process, the CIC is responsible for the process. Do not blame immigrants for their own mistreatment.
When the CIC routinely disenfranchises qualified applicants for years on end and cannot be bothered to process hundreds of thousands of languishing applications, it is the CIC which is not taking citizenship seriously, not the applicants.
We need to work together to demand a fair and timely path to citizenship for all qualified applicants. The CIC leadership is trying to get us to blame eachother instead of looking at the people in charge. Don't buy into it.
I think you are right on one level, but the tone of the article suggests to me that the journalist didn't so much discover this, as get a call from the CIC spokesperson and write an article relaying their talking points. It raises the question of why the CIC is promoting this 1 month after it released the Operational Bulletin.touché said:
The last time the CIC leadership mentioned the RQ in the press was right before the first ATIP release of public information on RQ numbers (22% of applicants) and also right before the timeline was upped to 25/35 months. But Jason Kenney was all over the press that the CIC was trying to get down to 12 months and sadly they were at 23 right now and only 12% of applicants got RQs. Articles like this can sometimes be used to muddy the waters and "control the message".
The messages I get from this article are: 1. Applicants themselves are to blame for the problem they are experiencing; 2. Many applicants don't take citizenship seriously; 3. CIC is raising the value of citizenship by being tough. Those who have read my previous posts know that I disagree with these points. These are such classic Tory CIC talking points that it makes me suspicious of the politics behind the article.
But who knows? Maybe it was just a quick article about the implementation of the new OB & my suspicions are getting the better of me. We'll see what happens, but I think it makes sense to wait for the other shoe to drop before celebrating the CIC's new attention to the citizenship delays. I'm not sure if there is another shoe, but I'm waiting.
I wouldn't hold my breath on CIC's further communications. Tories are plain out irresponsible flat out liars who would put a lipstick on a pigs face and try to sell it off for excellence. In the end no-one appreciates their messy work nor do they for an instance believe the tories attitude on painting the truth differently. They have pathetically failed on this before and currently. They still keep doing it like fools. The huge downside with this is when they surely are kicked out of office come 2015 it is the incoming party that has to toil in streamlining the CIC employees and their unions in straightening up the mess these clowns have created. Pre 2009 no one has never ever heard about the word RQ nor did it take more than a year for them to obtain citizenship. This is all the circus started by these jokers. We're at a disadvantageous position that Canadians don't tend to sympathize the same feeling as we share. The new Canadians should think twice on who they're voting for as they have been in our shoes just recently.