Got last Caips in October 2011 and PSDEC 1 and 71 point was awarded in May 2011.ItsBeenLongNow said:
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Pre Feb 2008 applicants
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Well said,only God has the final say and I believe he will work for our good by his grace.
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mississaugans said:
I applied in 23 feb 2007 and my NOC was 1236 custom clearence.kolaveri_di_canada said:
plz comment and explaine mr.kolaveri
they only gave me 10 pionts for age 37.That time my age was 37.
thanks
Factor 4: Age - maximum 10 points
Your points score is calculated based on your age on submission of the application:
Age Points Score
16 or under 0
17 2
18 4
19 6
20 8
21-49 10
50 8
51 6
52 4
53 2
54 and over 0
Your points score is calculated based on your age on submission of the application:
Age Points Score
16 or under 0
17 2
18 4
19 6
20 8
21-49 10
50 8
51 6
52 4
53 2
54 and over 0
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Notice – Questions and answers: Bill C-38 and changes to Federal Skilled Worker applications
Q1. Why is the Government of Canada eliminating the majority of the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) backlog?
The Government is committed to creating a just-in-time immigration system that is responsive to Canada's economic needs.
The large backlog of applications that has accumulated under the Federal Skilled Worker Program is impeding the responsiveness of Canada's immigration system.
Eliminating the bulk of this longstanding backlog of FSW applications will allow the Department to focus resources on facilitating the arrival of skilled immigrants who apply under the current eligibility criteria.
Economic Action Plan 2012 (also known as the Federal Budget) proposed to terminate applications and return fees paid by certain FSW applicants who applied prior to February 27, 2008. This proposal was introduced in Parliament under Bill C-38 on April 26, 2012.
Q2. Am I affected by the FSW backlog elimination measures?
Now that the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38) has become law, CIC will terminate processing Federal Skilled Worker files if applicants:
applied before February 27, 2008, and
have not had a decision made by an immigration officer based on selection criteria before March 29, 2012. (information on selection criteria is below)
CIC expects this will affect around 280,000 people including dependants.
CIC will return fees paid to the Department, without interest, for applications that are eliminated under the provisions in Bill C-38. CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information.
CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q3. What does a “decision based on selection criteria” mean?
A “decision based on selection criteria” means that an immigration officer:
has assessed your FSW application against the points grid, and
has made a decision on whether or not you meet the selection criteria of the program.
Currently, the pass mark is 67 points out of a grid worth 100 points. The grid considers the following:
the person's ability in English and/or French;
their education;
their work experience;
their age;
whether they have a job already arranged in Canada (arranged employment); and
how well they might adapt to living in Canada (which awards points for things like previous work or study in Canada, spouse's education and relatives in Canada).
If your application is successful, you would move to the next phase (i.e. admissibility). At that point you would be checked against health, security and criminality requirements before a final decision is made and a visa is issued or not.
If you do not score at least 67 on the FSW points grid, your application would be refused and CIC would inform you of the decision.
Q4. How will fees be returned?
CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information. CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q5. What options do I have if my application is terminated under Bill C-38?
If your file is closed by CIC, you may re-apply under the current FSW criteria (i.e. with a qualifying offer of arranged employment or under the PhD eligibility stream) or under any other immigration category for which you may be eligible. If you have the skills Canada needs now, your application would likely be processed much faster – new FSW applications are processed within 12 months.
Q1. Why is the Government of Canada eliminating the majority of the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) backlog?
The Government is committed to creating a just-in-time immigration system that is responsive to Canada's economic needs.
The large backlog of applications that has accumulated under the Federal Skilled Worker Program is impeding the responsiveness of Canada's immigration system.
Eliminating the bulk of this longstanding backlog of FSW applications will allow the Department to focus resources on facilitating the arrival of skilled immigrants who apply under the current eligibility criteria.
Economic Action Plan 2012 (also known as the Federal Budget) proposed to terminate applications and return fees paid by certain FSW applicants who applied prior to February 27, 2008. This proposal was introduced in Parliament under Bill C-38 on April 26, 2012.
Q2. Am I affected by the FSW backlog elimination measures?
Now that the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38) has become law, CIC will terminate processing Federal Skilled Worker files if applicants:
applied before February 27, 2008, and
have not had a decision made by an immigration officer based on selection criteria before March 29, 2012. (information on selection criteria is below)
CIC expects this will affect around 280,000 people including dependants.
CIC will return fees paid to the Department, without interest, for applications that are eliminated under the provisions in Bill C-38. CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information.
CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q3. What does a “decision based on selection criteria” mean?
A “decision based on selection criteria” means that an immigration officer:
has assessed your FSW application against the points grid, and
has made a decision on whether or not you meet the selection criteria of the program.
Currently, the pass mark is 67 points out of a grid worth 100 points. The grid considers the following:
the person's ability in English and/or French;
their education;
their work experience;
their age;
whether they have a job already arranged in Canada (arranged employment); and
how well they might adapt to living in Canada (which awards points for things like previous work or study in Canada, spouse's education and relatives in Canada).
If your application is successful, you would move to the next phase (i.e. admissibility). At that point you would be checked against health, security and criminality requirements before a final decision is made and a visa is issued or not.
If you do not score at least 67 on the FSW points grid, your application would be refused and CIC would inform you of the decision.
Q4. How will fees be returned?
CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information. CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q5. What options do I have if my application is terminated under Bill C-38?
If your file is closed by CIC, you may re-apply under the current FSW criteria (i.e. with a qualifying offer of arranged employment or under the PhD eligibility stream) or under any other immigration category for which you may be eligible. If you have the skills Canada needs now, your application would likely be processed much faster – new FSW applications are processed within 12 months.
its nice to c this explanation but ecas showing IN PROCESS is giving hopes/mileading/confusing/tiring pre 2008 applicants.and also no reply from cic is making things bit complicated.they should change the status on affected application for pre 2008 so that that people can carry on with their next course of action thats what i feel..correct me if i am wrong...
quote author=Mr.Engineer link=topic=11msg1602696#msg1602696 date=1342172208]
Notice – Questions and answers: Bill C-38 and changes to Federal Skilled Worker applications
Q1. Why is the Government of Canada eliminating the majority of the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) backlog?
The Government is committed to creating a just-in-time immigration system that is responsive to Canada's economic needs.
The large backlog of applications that has accumulated under the Federal Skilled Worker Program is impeding the responsiveness of Canada's immigration system.
Eliminating the bulk of this longstanding backlog of FSW applications will allow the Department to focus resources on facilitating the arrival of skilled immigrants who apply under the current eligibility criteria.
Economic Action Plan 2012 (also known as the Federal Budget) proposed to terminate applications and return fees paid by certain FSW applicants who applied prior to February 27, 2008. This proposal was introduced in Parliament under Bill C-38 on April 26, 2012.
Q2. Am I affected by the FSW backlog elimination measures?
Now that the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38) has become law, CIC will terminate processing Federal Skilled Worker files if applicants:
applied before February 27, 2008, and
have not had a decision made by an immigration officer based on selection criteria before March 29, 2012. (information on selection criteria is below)
CIC expects this will affect around 280,000 people including dependants.
CIC will return fees paid to the Department, without interest, for applications that are eliminated under the provisions in Bill C-38. CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information.
CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q3. What does a “decision based on selection criteria” mean?
A “decision based on selection criteria” means that an immigration officer:
has assessed your FSW application against the points grid, and
has made a decision on whether or not you meet the selection criteria of the program.
Currently, the pass mark is 67 points out of a grid worth 100 points. The grid considers the following:
the person's ability in English and/or French;
their education;
their work experience;
their age;
whether they have a job already arranged in Canada (arranged employment); and
how well they might adapt to living in Canada (which awards points for things like previous work or study in Canada, spouse's education and relatives in Canada).
If your application is successful, you would move to the next phase (i.e. admissibility). At that point you would be checked against health, security and criminality requirements before a final decision is made and a visa is issued or not.
If you do not score at least 67 on the FSW points grid, your application would be refused and CIC would inform you of the decision.
Q4. How will fees be returned?
CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information. CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q5. What options do I have if my application is terminated under Bill C-38?
If your file is closed by CIC, you may re-apply under the current FSW criteria (i.e. with a qualifying offer of arranged employment or under the PhD eligibility stream) or under any other immigration category for which you may be eligible. If you have the skills Canada needs now, your application would likely be processed much faster – new FSW applications are processed within 12 months.
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quote author=Mr.Engineer link=topic=11msg1602696#msg1602696 date=1342172208]
Notice – Questions and answers: Bill C-38 and changes to Federal Skilled Worker applications
Q1. Why is the Government of Canada eliminating the majority of the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) backlog?
The Government is committed to creating a just-in-time immigration system that is responsive to Canada's economic needs.
The large backlog of applications that has accumulated under the Federal Skilled Worker Program is impeding the responsiveness of Canada's immigration system.
Eliminating the bulk of this longstanding backlog of FSW applications will allow the Department to focus resources on facilitating the arrival of skilled immigrants who apply under the current eligibility criteria.
Economic Action Plan 2012 (also known as the Federal Budget) proposed to terminate applications and return fees paid by certain FSW applicants who applied prior to February 27, 2008. This proposal was introduced in Parliament under Bill C-38 on April 26, 2012.
Q2. Am I affected by the FSW backlog elimination measures?
Now that the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38) has become law, CIC will terminate processing Federal Skilled Worker files if applicants:
applied before February 27, 2008, and
have not had a decision made by an immigration officer based on selection criteria before March 29, 2012. (information on selection criteria is below)
CIC expects this will affect around 280,000 people including dependants.
CIC will return fees paid to the Department, without interest, for applications that are eliminated under the provisions in Bill C-38. CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information.
CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q3. What does a “decision based on selection criteria” mean?
A “decision based on selection criteria” means that an immigration officer:
has assessed your FSW application against the points grid, and
has made a decision on whether or not you meet the selection criteria of the program.
Currently, the pass mark is 67 points out of a grid worth 100 points. The grid considers the following:
the person's ability in English and/or French;
their education;
their work experience;
their age;
whether they have a job already arranged in Canada (arranged employment); and
how well they might adapt to living in Canada (which awards points for things like previous work or study in Canada, spouse's education and relatives in Canada).
If your application is successful, you would move to the next phase (i.e. admissibility). At that point you would be checked against health, security and criminality requirements before a final decision is made and a visa is issued or not.
If you do not score at least 67 on the FSW points grid, your application would be refused and CIC would inform you of the decision.
Q4. How will fees be returned?
CIC is currently finalizing the fee return process, which will involve confirming up-to-date contact and payee information. CIC has set up a central task force based in Ottawa to handle the fee return process. More details will be posted on this website as they become available.
Q5. What options do I have if my application is terminated under Bill C-38?
If your file is closed by CIC, you may re-apply under the current FSW criteria (i.e. with a qualifying offer of arranged employment or under the PhD eligibility stream) or under any other immigration category for which you may be eligible. If you have the skills Canada needs now, your application would likely be processed much faster – new FSW applications are processed within 12 months.
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.....disappointing if true...........
http://o.canada.com/2012/07/13/would-be-newcomers-caught-in-legal-quagmire/
OTTAWA — A group of would-be immigrants, who successfully sued the government over processing delays, will soon learn whether the bulk of them will remain out of luck in terms of their quest to come to Canada thanks to a new law that allows Citizenship and Immigration to toss out more than a quarter-of-a-million old applications.
The Federal Court ruled last month, just two weeks before Bill C-38 became law, that the government must process all the applications it takes into the system and that the delays, some going back nine years, were unjustified.
The court ordered the government to finalize the lead litigant’s case by Oct. 14.
While the court didn’t issue separate rulings for each of the 900 litigants involved, their lawyer Tim Leahy said an agreement was struck with the government in February to apply the principles in the lead case to the others.
But that was before Bill C-38 and in a document filed in Federal Court this week, the government argued the new law — eliminating some 280,000 unassessed federal skilled worker applications received prior to February 27, 2008 and refunding their $130 million in application fees — trumps their agreement.
“The applications of approximately 635 of the applicants involved in this proceeding were terminated by operation of law,” the government argued. “The minister is bound by the law of Canada and has no discretion to process these terminated applications contrary to the law.”
As for the litigants who are not among the 280,000 — including those who received a positive assessment before March 29 — government lawyers said they would present a proposal for processing those applications by July 16.
Leahy, however, argued his clients had a “vested right” to have their files processed according to the February agreement and that “the discretion is there” for Minister Jason Kenney to “behave honourably.
“Political ambition and ego impede the honourable administration of the law,” he argued, noting the new law doesn’t prevent the government from assigning new file numbers to his clients’ cases and finalizing them, nor does it nullify the February agreement.
Leahy further argued that more than two dozen of his clients were doubly penalized since they were instructed after the March 29 deadline to take costly medical exams, submit photographs and pay a head tax even though the government was planning to cancel their applications.
Leahy said Justice Robert Barnes must ultimately decide whether to order Citizenship and Immigration to honour the agreement and process all the files, including those impacted by Bill C-38. He could also order each case to be heard separately, Leahy said, or simply “wash his hands of the matter” and suggest the litigants get involved in a class action lawsuit that’s already in the works.
While Leahy isn’t currently involved, a handful of lawyers representing about 700 other applicants are in the process of preparing their case.
Lorne Waldman, an immigration lawyer involved in the pending suit, said the constitutional argument they will put forward will be that C-38 ought to be “struck down” because it denies applicants “due process.”
“These applicants applied in good faith, some as long as seven years ago. They paid their fees and were told that their applications would be processed,” he said.
“We are arguing that is it is inconsistent with our Charter and Bill of RIghts to take away the right to apply to come to Canada in this fashion.”
The lawyers involved in the class action negotiated a 90-day reprieve with the federal government just before the bill received Royal Assent on June 29. The deal effectively prevents the government from destroying the files before the lawyers file their case in Federal Court.
It should be noted that a favourable ruling for Leahy’s litigants would have no bearing on the thousand of other applicants impacted by Bill C-38.
tcohen@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/tobicohen
http://o.canada.com/2012/07/13/would-be-newcomers-caught-in-legal-quagmire/
OTTAWA — A group of would-be immigrants, who successfully sued the government over processing delays, will soon learn whether the bulk of them will remain out of luck in terms of their quest to come to Canada thanks to a new law that allows Citizenship and Immigration to toss out more than a quarter-of-a-million old applications.
The Federal Court ruled last month, just two weeks before Bill C-38 became law, that the government must process all the applications it takes into the system and that the delays, some going back nine years, were unjustified.
The court ordered the government to finalize the lead litigant’s case by Oct. 14.
While the court didn’t issue separate rulings for each of the 900 litigants involved, their lawyer Tim Leahy said an agreement was struck with the government in February to apply the principles in the lead case to the others.
But that was before Bill C-38 and in a document filed in Federal Court this week, the government argued the new law — eliminating some 280,000 unassessed federal skilled worker applications received prior to February 27, 2008 and refunding their $130 million in application fees — trumps their agreement.
“The applications of approximately 635 of the applicants involved in this proceeding were terminated by operation of law,” the government argued. “The minister is bound by the law of Canada and has no discretion to process these terminated applications contrary to the law.”
As for the litigants who are not among the 280,000 — including those who received a positive assessment before March 29 — government lawyers said they would present a proposal for processing those applications by July 16.
Leahy, however, argued his clients had a “vested right” to have their files processed according to the February agreement and that “the discretion is there” for Minister Jason Kenney to “behave honourably.
“Political ambition and ego impede the honourable administration of the law,” he argued, noting the new law doesn’t prevent the government from assigning new file numbers to his clients’ cases and finalizing them, nor does it nullify the February agreement.
Leahy further argued that more than two dozen of his clients were doubly penalized since they were instructed after the March 29 deadline to take costly medical exams, submit photographs and pay a head tax even though the government was planning to cancel their applications.
Leahy said Justice Robert Barnes must ultimately decide whether to order Citizenship and Immigration to honour the agreement and process all the files, including those impacted by Bill C-38. He could also order each case to be heard separately, Leahy said, or simply “wash his hands of the matter” and suggest the litigants get involved in a class action lawsuit that’s already in the works.
While Leahy isn’t currently involved, a handful of lawyers representing about 700 other applicants are in the process of preparing their case.
Lorne Waldman, an immigration lawyer involved in the pending suit, said the constitutional argument they will put forward will be that C-38 ought to be “struck down” because it denies applicants “due process.”
“These applicants applied in good faith, some as long as seven years ago. They paid their fees and were told that their applications would be processed,” he said.
“We are arguing that is it is inconsistent with our Charter and Bill of RIghts to take away the right to apply to come to Canada in this fashion.”
The lawyers involved in the class action negotiated a 90-day reprieve with the federal government just before the bill received Royal Assent on June 29. The deal effectively prevents the government from destroying the files before the lawyers file their case in Federal Court.
It should be noted that a favourable ruling for Leahy’s litigants would have no bearing on the thousand of other applicants impacted by Bill C-38.
tcohen@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/tobicohen
hopefulever
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A blessed day to all of us, especially to me!
It's been a month that I can't access my ECAS and I'm so worried but hey guess what? I received an email a while ago from CEM, and the best part of the letter is "We are pleased to inform you that your visa(s) for permanent residence to Canada is/are ready to be issued, ..."
After almost 8 years, the waiting is over. Yahoo!
God is good all the time!
***I am one of those 20K pre Feb. 2008 applicants wherein a selection criteria was already made.
It's been a month that I can't access my ECAS and I'm so worried but hey guess what? I received an email a while ago from CEM, and the best part of the letter is "We are pleased to inform you that your visa(s) for permanent residence to Canada is/are ready to be issued, ..."
After almost 8 years, the waiting is over. Yahoo!
God is good all the time!
***I am one of those 20K pre Feb. 2008 applicants wherein a selection criteria was already made.
Jewel1020 Bahi,
Salam
My current status is in-process and the web page was modified on 12 june 2012.
Would u please share ur status?
Best Regards and Thanks
eva
Salam
My current status is in-process and the web page was modified on 12 june 2012.
Would u please share ur status?
Best Regards and Thanks
eva