- Oct 31, 2008
- 74
- 3
- Category........
- Visa Office......
- Buffalo, USA
- NOC Code......
- 0111
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- May - 2009
- Doc's Request.
- July - 2009
- IELTS Request
- waived
- File Transfer...
- September - 2009
- Med's Request
- August - 2010
- Med's Done....
- September - 2010
- Interview........
- waived
- Passport Req..
- May 16, 2011
- VISA ISSUED...
- May 17, 2011
- LANDED..........
- May 17, 2011
Please read from this link and comments - thanks
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2010-Q4/index.asp
Three years ago Stephen Harper used the immigration backlog, which he made worse, as an excuse to give the Citizenship and Immigration Minister sweeping discretionary powers to reject whole categories of immigrants. The Conservatives first use of these new powers was to cut the list of eligible skilled worker occupations and they have now decided to further shut the door on immigrants by limiting the number of new skilled worker applications they will accept to 20,000 per year. Despite picking and choosing narrow categories of skilled workers to fast-track processing at the expense of people hoping to be reunited with their families, the overall backlog continues to grow. More than one million applications were awaiting a decision as of December 31, 2010.
The Conservatives also claim that they have reduced Skilled Worker wait times from 5 years to 1 year and quickly cut wait times for parents and grandparents. In 2008 the Conservatives simply decided to pretend the existing backlog did not exist. They created the “working inventory” of post 2008 applications and processed those as a priority while leaving the hundreds of thousands of skilled workers already in line in limbo and unreported in the wait time statistics.
*CIC Permanent Resident Applicants Awaiting a Decision (updated April 7, 2011) http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2010-Q4/index.asp
I read following from here:
http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&func=display&sid=7740
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2010-Q4/index.asp
Three years ago Stephen Harper used the immigration backlog, which he made worse, as an excuse to give the Citizenship and Immigration Minister sweeping discretionary powers to reject whole categories of immigrants. The Conservatives first use of these new powers was to cut the list of eligible skilled worker occupations and they have now decided to further shut the door on immigrants by limiting the number of new skilled worker applications they will accept to 20,000 per year. Despite picking and choosing narrow categories of skilled workers to fast-track processing at the expense of people hoping to be reunited with their families, the overall backlog continues to grow. More than one million applications were awaiting a decision as of December 31, 2010.
The Conservatives also claim that they have reduced Skilled Worker wait times from 5 years to 1 year and quickly cut wait times for parents and grandparents. In 2008 the Conservatives simply decided to pretend the existing backlog did not exist. They created the “working inventory” of post 2008 applications and processed those as a priority while leaving the hundreds of thousands of skilled workers already in line in limbo and unreported in the wait time statistics.
*CIC Permanent Resident Applicants Awaiting a Decision (updated April 7, 2011) http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/data-release/2010-Q4/index.asp
I read following from here:
http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&func=display&sid=7740
+1 for u 
