Hi, guys.
Looks like today is going to be a quite day too...
I was thinking a lot about the quota for the immigration program and the long dormant VO...
So... here is the detailed immigration quotas for every program.
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-plan-2017.html
Good news: it seems the 30,000 (well, 29,300) for Quebec are exclusively skilled workers and business programs (excludes refugees, family sponsorship, etc.)
Bad news: the target is 7% less than last year
Now, last week we were a bit nervous with the spreadsheet that kikou shared with us... it seemed that we had almost reached the limit.
http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/f7e5498e-0ad8-4417-85c9-9b8aff9b9eda?_ga=2.109065029.1370582662.1499691861-1047176655.1474379549
However, if we look only at the quebec economic program (line 113 of the 1st spreadhseet) we can see that around 13,000 had been admitted Jan-May this year... which is roughly half of the yearly target. This would make more sense, (achieving half of the target by mid-year...)
So, if i'm right (please, please, please, let me be right), it would seem we are all okay, and there is no reason to believe we wont be allowed in this year.
Nevertheless, this does not answer the question as to why there have been no updates recently. Are they all just having daily BBQs enjoying summer? Is there an internal problem? Is the internet down at the VO?
A week ago my PCC was sent directly to IRCC (i never even saw it), and it still shows like "we require additional documents".... so they have definitely not even looked at it.
I obviously hope we all get news soon.. But for now, the mystery remains...