the CanadaVisa Team - 22 July, 2015
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) recently announce a pilot project that will centralize the receipt of new Federal Skilled Worker applications at the Case Processing Centre in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
The goal is to reducing the wait times of prospective Canadian immigrants through quicker processing of applications. More than 30 new staff will be hired and trained for this centre to begin reviewing applications next month.
“In order to get the people we need to this country, we need to process applications faster,” stated CIC Minister Diane Finley. “This pilot is one of several measures we are taking to help reduce wait times overall. By centralizing the intake of federal skilled worker applications, we are alleviating some of the workload in our overseas visa offices.”
The pilot project will run for 18 months, in which CIC will evaluate its effectiveness and make adjustments as necessary.
Other efforts to reduce wait times include: sending more staff to overseas visa offices where wait times are the longest and redistributing work from these offices to others that are less busy. CIC will also be reconfirming the immigration intentions of applicants who have been waiting the longest.
