monavy said:
Not all but a part of it does come form EE and cic wants to increase that part.
out of 33782 ITAs issues last year, 8798 were PNPs. roughly 26%.
I think you may be right. EE includes skilled(FSW,CEC,FST),Atlantic and PNP.
Skilled and Atlantic make up 73.7k.
PNP make up 51k, which may be through EE or separate.
I looked at 2016 immigration report. They have achieved 95% of target which was 47k.
But EE report shows only 8.8k came through EE. This means 20% came through EE.
Assuming 25% come through EE in 2017, out of 51k, we will have 12.75k.
So PRs through EE will be 73.7k+12.75k=86,450.
Using your 1.2 ratio of ITAs to PRs, we will need 103,750 ITAs.
35973 ITAs issued so far in 10 draws in 4 months.
67777 ITAs remain.
Assuming 20 more draws in remaining 8 months, we have
3389 ITAs per draw.
Note: It is assumed PNPs increase from 20% to 25% this year.