Suggested criteria for ITA cutoff!!!

[eski]

I was thinking. ...i may be wrong. I think cic just has a target of 1500 applicants every draw. They don't decide the cutoff. .they just pick the first 1500 people in with the highest scores and sometimes when they've gotten to that score. ..they realise 5 or 6 other people are in that territory so we see numbers of 1506 there abouts. ..what do you guys think? ??

 

[8Hannah8]

I was thinking. ...i may be wrong. I think cic just has a target of 1500 applicants every draw. They don't decide the cutoff. .they just pick the first 1500 people in with the highest scores and sometimes when they've gotten to that score. ..they realise 5 or 6 other people are in that territory so we see numbers of 1506 there abouts. ..what do you guys think? ??

I believe there were draws with the lower/higher number of applicants selected before. However, it might have been just a deviation due to the fact the system was new.

 

[ellia]

I was thinking the same thing. That means the cutoff scores should drop once they process the backlogs from past years and have to reach yearly immigration targets through EE only, and therefore rise the number of applications selected in every draw?

Maybe they'll also start fine-tuning the system at the same time, to make sure that even though the cutoff score has dropped, the people selected are still the ones the economy needs most.

 

[prcand]

seems like, at least for the meantime, they are indeed considering the number of invites more than the score itself. this means, if the trend continues, the cutoff score will just be strongly dependent on the number of candidates.

as to why 1,500? i'm also interested to know. i hope someone in position (eg, CIC) would confirm or deny this backlog speculation though.

I was thinking the same thing. That means the cutoff scores should drop once they process the backlogs from past years and have to reach yearly immigration targets through EE only, and therefore rise the number of applications selected in every draw?

Maybe they'll also start fine-tuning the system at the same time, to make sure that even though the cutoff score has dropped, the people selected are still the ones the economy needs most.

 

[8Hannah8]

as to why 1,500? i'm also interested to know. i hope someone in position (eg, CIC) would confirm or deny this backlog speculation though.

probably because considering the resources, that is the number of applicants could be processed within 6 month committed time-frame.

 

[eski]

probably because considering the resources, that is the number of applicants could be processed within 6 month committed time-frame.

i think i agree. ...they must have agreed to the number based on their resources. ..

 

[ellia]

Do you think they're hiring additional staff to process the 25k refugees? Even then, you have to train the new staff first...

If they don't, I think the draws will still be regular and of the same size (approx. 1500), or else they won't meet the year's economic immigration targets. So that leaves us with longer processing times, I guess.

Or maybe the 25k additional people is not that much for the CIC, and won't affect their work that much?
Let's make some rough estimations: they're aiming to process 250k yearly, if I remember correctly, that makes it about 20k a month. They have two months before the year's end, so that means they need to process 12k refugees per month - that's +50% of their normal amount. Hmmm, no, that seems significant.

 

[eski]

although to be honest.....the offices in canada should be the ones handling the refugee backlog....but for us under ee....its our respective VOs in our countries or regions,example a ghanaian would b processed by the accra office.in other words, i think it may only affect inland applicants jst a tiny little bit...

Do you think they're hiring additional staff to process the 25k refugees? Even then, you have to train the new staff first...

If they don't, I think the draws will still be regular and of the same size (approx. 1500), or else they won't meet the year's economic immigration targets. So that leaves us with longer processing times, I guess.

Or maybe the 25k additional people is not that much for the CIC, and won't affect their work that much?
Let's make some rough estimations: they're aiming to process 250k yearly, if I remember correctly, that makes it about 20k a month. They have two months before the year's end, so that means they need to process 12k refugees per month - that's +50% of their normal amount. Hmmm, no, that seems significant.

 

[ellia]

although to be honest.....the offices in canada should be the ones handling the refugee backlog....but for us under ee....its our respective VOs in our countries or regions,example a ghanaian would b processed by the accra office.in other words, i think it may only affect inland applicants jst a tiny little bit...

Ooooh, I didn't know that! I thought every application goes through some kind of central office at some point.
That's good news! Do you know if there is a list of VOs somewhere? I want to see where is my VO.

 

[eski]

Ooooh, I didn't know that! I thought every application goes through some kind of central office at some point.
That's good news! Do you know if there is a list of VOs somewhere? I want to see where is my VO.

it's actually an assumption and my reason for assuming this is when you send them all your documents. ...like police reports. ...the office doing the background check has to b closer to your home imo....but im not 100 percent sure. ..

 

[Asivad Anac]

Under EE, almost the entire processing happens in Ottawa with LVOs being roped in as and when needed.

Also, out of the 250k number, less than half would actually be economic immigrants (FSW, FST, CEC, some amounts of PNP) and that number would also include spouses/common-law partners/dependent children who are part of the application.

 

[ellia]

Ah, I haven't thought about the dependants of the principal applicants! You're absolutely right, of course.

Hmm, but I think I've read something about outland applications being processed faster than the inland ones? I thought that was due to LVOs having less work than the VOs in Canada. Maybe it's just different departments of the CIC though, that are still located in Ottawa... But that's all just my speculation, anyway.