Dear Nectar
The Data available is till 4th quarter of 2010. 1st quarter 2011 data is yet to be published. There is no correlation between your info and CIC data release.
Please find below my comments.
Dear saedmahraan,
The current average of clearing backlog (pre February 208) applications is about 75000-80000 applications/year.
Pre 2008 applicants backlog
was 400,005 in 2009 and 334,881 in 2010 end. That means 65124 applicant backlog was cleared in 2010.
However Post Feb 2008 backlog
increased from 128,769 to 173,050 (44281 applicants were added to backlog). SO OVERALL FSW BACKLOG REDUCED BY 65124-44281 = 20843 applicants ONLY.
But this average will indeed increase in near future just because of smaller inventory of post june 26, 2010 PR applications.
There are no figures of Post 26 June inventory. However contradicting to your claim the backlog increased from 144,883 to 173,050 in just 4 months (Sep 2010 to Dec 2010) despite of new rules.
The current total until March 2011 of pre February 2008 backlog applications awaiting decisions may fall between 300,000 to 325,000 applications.
March 2011 data is yet to be published but lets see what happens.
Your comments are in green color.
Regards
Salman