fatani said:
Last yr they said 50% will come from EE. In 2017 they said majority of them will come from EE means 80-85%. With your analysis 33,782 ITAs issued in 2016 and mind you in 6-7 months from april to october the ITAs were 750 because of refugees so take it into account as well.
So now with no refugees 30% increment in ITAs because of backlog decreased. and 6-7K increase in quota we can assume 50% increase of 33,782 so we can assume approx 50K ITAs this yr.
With so much ITAs come so much decline as lots of people make 2 profiles for husband and wife and decline ITA from 1 account and fake profiles were also set up so if we consider rejection at 20% of ITAs it means approx 60K ITAs will be issued.
Considering no more draws in march the current ITAs stand up to 24,652. It means around 35.5K remaining for 9 months. It means around 2000 ITAs on avg per draw which is still a good number to keep this below 450.
Well, the economic immigrants quota for 2017 is 71700 and PNP is 51000. I have removed 2000 from economic immigrants as Atlantic would be in the figure of 2000.
80% (majority) of 71700 is 57360. 30% of PNP is 15300. So total figure is 57360+15300=72660
From my opinion, you have considered 20% (rejection, decline and duplicate rate). However, this is quite conservative. In one of the videos of David Cohen, he says rejection rate is around 40%. Please also consider some profiles after ITA will have delayed police verification etc. I am considering it to be 30% - average. We have seen in last few draws, many people have declined the invite, as they were in the middle of updating the profile and they received the ITA (March 1 - which was a surprised draw). Then there are many applicants, who applied without spouse. But, after seeing the fall in the score they would like to add the family.
Considering 30% for the same is around 21000.
So total figure becomes 72660+21000= 94400. Lets consider 94000 as the total figure.
Let's put a ratio of 1:1.5 for ITA to family ratio. This is from the perspective that most of the candidates in 450+ are single applicants. Hence, the total ITA becomes 70500.
So for 2017, they need to offer 70500 ITAs. This is around 3000 ITAs per draw for the whole year. (12 months).