johnjkjk said:
The recent upward trend in ITA hasn't borne out in minimum score, which is still >482. It's likely that a significant rise in PNP has eaten up this increase as since nomination is guaranteed invitation.
What doesn't make sense is that by August, the 2016 target for EE landings should have been met so we're now drawing from the 2017 target, which should technically be double as it doesn't have a backlog, ergo ITAs should have reached 2000 in September. Pre-EE backlog has it's own target of c.30,000 which is independent of the 2017 EE target. Something is amiss here.
One potential reason why ITAs have been so low since May is because targets have been overshot considerably. Targets are for actual PR landings including dependants, which between Jan-Jun 2016 was 52,000 so the 2016 target of 58,400 was almost met in 6 months, with 6 months yet to go, so will have been overshot by up to 50,000 in 2016 mostly due to huge numbers of dependants. As very few non PNP, non LMIA applicants have been drawn in the past 12 draws, the following can be concluded:
1. The pre-EE backlog must have been quite large.
2. PR applicants are now bringing in lots of dependants, up to twice the number the were bringing in previous years.
Data here: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/ad975a26-df23-456a-8ada-756191a23695