Just a clarification though.. the 1 million doesn’t include family members for EE as I can say from the link below. Each catagory including family, PNP, etc are clearly defined but for federal high skilled it doesn’t say that include family anywhere. At the least we know the target ITAs and based on that we know we cannot count family members in the equation of 74K. I will stand corrected if I am shown any data which tells me that the 310000 includes or are based on family size.A bit to correct everybody ideas.
1. If OINP will close for a bit, it will only affect people that did not submit their application and not those who have already done so. The very reason for such break is to deal with the application and count how many spots are left before reopening again for this year.
2. People constantly mix up target of immigrants with ITA. Please do not forget that there can be more people per application. We do not have complete data in order to determine optimal amount of ITA. (% of EE PNP is not known, average size of accompanying family is not know, ITA failure rate is not known). Hence statement like they need to have 74k ITA might or might not be correct.
3. Provinces are asked to spread releases of their applicants all over the year (this is an assumption, but it seems to be valid, given the fact that there is certain amount of PNP each draw). higher releases might happen close to the end of the year or beginning of the new year (when they try to close the current / last year quota).
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/supplementary-immigration-levels-2018.html
Secondly, the number for PNP seems unusual high to not include EE PNP in it (55000). What I mean is that I see no reference that states that EE PNP is part of 74900 ITA and not the 55000 that PNPs are allocated
My thoughts are just to be positive and to hope against hope that somehow there is light at the other end of the tunnel