There is probably also another very important practical reason for CEC only candidates for now:
Assuming that most CEC candidates are inland, once they are issued CoPR they can be readily converted to PR by doing landing formalities at the nearest office. This fact takes on far more significance when you consider that PRs are only counted against this year's target upon landing. Once international flights were stopped, landing is possible only for inland candidates. Now that means from March last week there will be landings done only by Inland candidates.
Imagine if international travel does not resume till Jan 2021 (just as example, obviously we are all hoping it should be sooner). In such a case, if only inland candidates are landing, IRCC will fall short of it's PR target by around 50% for 2020 (if you consider that typical all program draws are split evenly between CEC and FSW). But if you conduct only CEC draws, as they are doing now, all the approved PRs will keep landing by doing the landing at the local office without coming through international flights. So 100 percent of PR target can now be achieved for 2020 as per original targets even if there are no international flights till the end of the year. If you think along this lines, the fate of FSW draws seem to be tightly tied to resumption of international flights.
Of course this is just a theory though, I may be totally off base.
Assuming that most CEC candidates are inland, once they are issued CoPR they can be readily converted to PR by doing landing formalities at the nearest office. This fact takes on far more significance when you consider that PRs are only counted against this year's target upon landing. Once international flights were stopped, landing is possible only for inland candidates. Now that means from March last week there will be landings done only by Inland candidates.
Imagine if international travel does not resume till Jan 2021 (just as example, obviously we are all hoping it should be sooner). In such a case, if only inland candidates are landing, IRCC will fall short of it's PR target by around 50% for 2020 (if you consider that typical all program draws are split evenly between CEC and FSW). But if you conduct only CEC draws, as they are doing now, all the approved PRs will keep landing by doing the landing at the local office without coming through international flights. So 100 percent of PR target can now be achieved for 2020 as per original targets even if there are no international flights till the end of the year. If you think along this lines, the fate of FSW draws seem to be tightly tied to resumption of international flights.
Of course this is just a theory though, I may be totally off base.
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