I was looking at CIC website, on this page :
Service standard for all paper applications under the Provincial Nominee Program (including from applicants who did not apply via Express Entry)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/service-standards/prov.asp
I found this lines:
"
Performance results
From April 2016 to March 2017, the service standard of 11 months was met 20 percent of the time. 80 percent of applications were processed in 16 months or less. Processing times increased as older cases in the inventory were being finalized. Newer cases are expected to be finalized in 2018."
What I do not understand is, if they are working on older files first, why are we seeing people who applied in January and have not yet received an answer yet, people who applied in April or May are starting to see results? Also, the part of March (or February), I think it is not a very long list (at least if we compare how many applicants from March are left and how many of January). Is there anything that could be stopping the remaining from March, and yet, where there so many complicated cases in January?
I ask this because I would like to understand what "Newer cases" means.
I would also like to ask if anybody has an idea of when was the deadline for Paper applications, I am pretty sure that the last application for BC PNP at least, was somewhere in February/March 2016, we had then to wait for 13 months to receive the nomination. Even if we got it in April, we only had 6 months to submit the certificate. Would that mean that the last applicants are somewhere in September/October 2017? If so, they should finish most of our files this year.
In BC, between 2015 and 2016, there were 6000 nominations. For 10 provinces, that would mean a rough 60 thousand nominations. 48 thousand of these are finalized on time (according to CIC). What are they doing with the remaining 12,000?
