Mail to Mr David Manicom from a delhi based Consultant
Dear Mr. Manicom,
I am writing this email on behalf of all the applicants who applied under the Ministerial Instructions -I and have applications pending at your office.
Mr. Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, announced on 28 November 2008 in Ottawa:
“We expect new federal skilled worker applicants, including those with arranged employment, to receive a decision within six to 12 months compared with up to six years under the old system,” said Minister Kenney. “All other economic class applications—including applicants chosen by Quebec, provincial nominees, the Canadian Experience Class, and live-in caregivers—will continue to be given priority.”
The applicants who submitted their application under Ministerial Instructions-I, in and after March 2010 at CIO Sydney and complete application at New Delhi office in and after May 2010 have not received medical instructions yet. It is already more than 12 months and your office has not processed these applications so far. It is expected by all the applicants that your office should process their files within the timeframe announced by the Hon. Minister.
The applicants who applied after 26 June 2010 under Ministerial Instructions-II have already received medicals instructions and visa whereas those who applied under Ministerial Instructions-I are still waiting to receive the next step of instructions from your office. This is very unfair to the applicants who applied under Ministerial Instructions-I. It is more than 12 months and they are still in dark about the status of their applications. All the applicants are impatient to know when these applications will be processed.
I request on behalf of all the applicants to process these applications within the timeframe as announced by the Minister.
I also request you to update your website to show accurate application processing timeframe.
Reply From Mr David Manicom
Dear Ms ___________
We are in the process of working with HQ to update processing information globally in this program. For New Delhi, our revised standard replies will provide information along the lines below. Please note that the processing of cases who applied under Ministerial Instructions II before those who applied under Ministerial Instructions I, was a policy decision taken by the government of Canada.
If you applied as a Federal Skilled Worker on or after February 27, 2008 and before June 26, 2010 , your application will take two years or more to be processed. This is due to the fact that Canada received over 425,000 applications under this program during this period.
* Unfortunately, it will take longer to process federal skilled worker applications submitted under the first set of instructions (between February 27, 2008 and June 25, 2010) than originally projected.
* During this time, the department received applications for more than 425,000 people, and 144,000 of these have not yet received a decision.
* This number represents more than twice the number of projected admissions under the federal skilled worker program in 2011, so many of these applicants will have to wait two years or more to be processed.
Please advise your clients accordingly, thank you.
David Manicom
Minister and Immigration Program Manager
Area Director, South Asia
Canadian High Commission, New Delhi
Reply to Mr David Manicom
Dear Mr. Manicom,
Thanks for your update.
A wait for two years or more for the applicants who applied under Ministerial Instructions-I is very unfair. All these applicants applied keeping in mind that their application will be finalized in less than a year as per the statement made by the Immigration Minister of Canada. The government of Canada should have maintained the commitment made by them. If the department had already accepted the applications to meet their admission quota for 2010 and 2011 then they should have stopped accepting more applications instead of accepting all the applications and then dumping them. A policy decision to process the cases who applied under MI-II before those who applied under MI-I is unjust. When the department already has applications under MI-I waiting decision then it is totally unjustified to start the processing of applications under MI-II. The processing of immigration cases was always used to done on the basis of first-cum-first-served. Therefore, the applications under MI-I should have been finalized before the applications under MI-II.
When the Ministerial Instructions –I were announced the department stopped the processing of applications received prior to 27 February 2008. Those applicants are waiting for the last seven years but the government of Canada has taken no decision regarding the processing of these applications. Now, after the announcement of Ministerial Instructions – II, the government of Canada has decided to stop the processing of applications received under Ministerial Instructions –I. The applicants are anxious to know if the fate of their application will be similar to the fate of the applications received prior to 27 February 2008. The Ministerial Instructions – III will be announced on 1 July 2011. Does it mean that after 1 July 2011 your department will stop the processing of applications received under Ministerial Instructions – II?
The government of Canada has collected billons of dollars by accepting all the applications but has not made any concrete policy in processing these applications. The applicants who are foreign nationals have been cheated by the government of Canada. The applicants are taking it as a very big scam.
I hope that the government of Canada will take a concrete step in finalizing all these files.
Regards
XYZ Consultant
