Hi,
I know this is very frustrating - but based on previous application intakes they forecast they would get no more than 200,000 applications from Feb 2008 up until they changed the rules in June 2010. They got over 400,000 applications during this time! In April/May 2010 alone they got over 100,000.
Nobody, not CIC or anyone else, could have predicted such a massive influx of applications and to their credit they at least reacted by introducting rules on 26 June 2010 to severely limit the number of FSW applications that were coming in.
The "two years" to process pre-June-2010 I think is a worst case scenario. If you look at the visa targets at each visa office you will see there is significantly more visas available than there are post-June-2010 applications at each office, so some of these visas in 2011 will be for pre-June-2010.
They have 144,000 Feb2008-June2010 applications left to process and only a certain amount of resource with which to process them. So rather than talk about "false promises" - what do you suggest they actually DO? Other than what they are already doing which is limiting current in-take numbers so they have resource to tackle the backlog.
The only other solution I can think of to significantly speed things up would be to increase the resource they have, but this would involve the Canadian parliament agreeing to a significant amount of extra funding for immigration, which frankly I cannot see happening.
But I completely agree there should be MUCH better communication from CIC as a whole, and from the local visa offices - to applicants to give them a more accurate and compassionate overview of exactly what is going on with their applications and when they expect them to be processed by.
Wayne.
