The new portal Immigration Quebec knows misfire
Potential migrants must wait hours or even ...
Potential immigrants must wait hours or even days to create their profile on the new web portal of the Ministry of Immigration of Quebec.
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(Quebec) The failures of a new web portal of the Department of Immigration Québec force to repel an important deadline for foreigners who wish to immigrate to the province.
The immigration applicants and their lawyers surrounded Monday, January 18 on their calendar. It is on that date that they have to go on the portal "My Project Québec" to transmit their form, they can create since last week.
This is the first time that the Department of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion (MIDI) refuses paper forms. Applications submitted online must be processed under the first come, first served.
However, the online website set January 5 experiencing major misfire. More than 800 000 people visited yesterday, according to data provided by MIDI. And only 150 users can connect simultaneously to create their profile and fill out their application form.
Potential immigrants must wait hours or even days to create their profile. A monster that forces the MIDI congestion to extend the deadline of 18 January, probably "a few weeks," said his spokesman Jonathan Lavallée.
Reform
The Ministry is working to make it more efficient site. But he is concerned that overcrowding could destabilize the computer system.
The Association of Quebec Immigration Lawyers mingled folder in the last days.
"If the gate was working well and properly, it would be able to complete an application in 1 hour or 1 hour 15 min, illustrated interview the president of the organization, Jean-François Boudreault. But now, people tell me that they spend an average of between 10 and 18 hours to fill in a form. "
The lawyer calls "step in the right direction," the decision to give more time for candidates to create their profile on the site "My Project Québec". He hoped that the MIDI expand access to its portal.
The massive influx of MIDI site is not accidental, say the observers from among immigration. Couillard The government announced last fall that the system of "first come, first served" would soon be abolished. Quebec wants the most suitable candidates to integrate into the labor market are admitted first. During the next period of receipt of requests, which was scheduled to begin January 18, 2800 newcomers to be admitted in Quebec. Some argue that this could be the last cohort of immigrants to be received before the entry into force of the reform.
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"Right now, people tell me that they spend an average of between 10 and 18 hours to fill in a form."
Jean-François Boudreault
President of the Bar Association and the Quebec Immigration Lawyers