No, there is no such correlation. It would in fact be illegal for IRCC to discriminate based on nationality or country of origin. There is at most some coincidental correlation. For example, some countries make it harder to get entry/exit records. So if you happen to come from country X which makes getting these records hard and IRCC asks you for those records in form of a QA process, you might take longer than an applicant from country Y, where getting those records is faster.
While I've voiced similar sentiments regarding claims of bias because of country origin by some posters, I do wonder if there are some countries in which there are more delays because of prolonged delays when doing background checks. It would be good to know so that people would understand there may be a plausible reason that a delay exists from a common country that isn't tied to discrimination.
I did my interview and test on Jan 25th and still waiting for DM. I am also from Iran. but I know other Iranians that applied after me and they are already invited for oath.
I would not consider that discrimination on IRCC's part. There could be different protocols for background clearance based on country of origin. As you mentioned getting or confirming information from some countries might take much longer than others. I think the spreadsheet is great to get a better understanding of the timeline in average and if there is a higher chance of delay due to country of origin it would be nice to know.
You would have a way too small sample size for the data to be meaningful. Apart from countries with a large number of recent naturalizations (according to the most recent IRCC statistics that's the Phillippines, India and China) you would probably have like two people from the same country in the spreadsheet for each month. That is not enough to infer anything. What I mean is: You would then see that the other two people from Country X took 4 months and 10 months respectively. What do you read from that? Exactly: Nothing.
The background check is probably regardless of location and month, so sample size is actually not as small as it might look. It might sound strange to you that clearance for people might depend on their nationality, but I know for a fact that Iranian's background check for visa and green card can take much longer in the US, so I will not be surprised if it is the case in Canada as well. I saw a few comments here and there about it, and thought it would be nice to get data in one thread. I wasn't suggesting to add country of origin to the spreadsheet, though I think it could add meaningful insight. I do agree that presence days is probably unrelated and can be safely dropped from the spreadsheet.
Just to clarify, it's not "my" spreadsheet
I'm not one of the spreadsheet organizers.
