New Government, Lower Fees
A quick note that the new Conservative government has promised to reduce or eliminate the $975 right of permanent resident fee for new immigrants. While I applaud the new government for lowering barriers to entry, I suspect many immigrants would rather the right of permanent residence fee stay in place and that money spend on hiring more visa officers to improve processing times. Waiting for a decision from CIC is certainly more painful than paying an entrance fee in most circumstances.
posted by Gianpaolo Panusa (Click to Email) @ 9:25 PM
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8 Comments:
I have to say I agree completely! The London high commission's website currently lists waiting times at approximately 39 months!!
http://www.canada.org.uk/visa-info/general/e_protim.htm
I'm a Canadian currently living in Ireland with my girlfriend, while we contemplate our options for getting her back to Canada with me - she qualifies for skilled worker status, but 39 months is a bit ridiculous! We're thinking that waiting till we are considered common-law spouses, and then a sponsorship, will likely be much faster
The idea of buyibg time with money is a good one. The CIC is of such a low efficiency agency, much much lower than the USA one. The problem is that CIC may not become faster even we pay them more. It is the problem of the whole system, if you stay in the country for a while you will find out that such low efficiency is not happening in CIC. There is no punishment for slowness here, and little award to efficiency. Pity. Socialism.
I totally agree - there is no excuse for the inefficient processing of immigration applications. A recent study showed that Canada has one of the most severe labour shortages in the world. The government should make immigration processing its top priority.
The waiting time has nothing to do with lack of staff at missions. It has everything to do with quotas. If London (say) has used up its quota for a year, then everyone else in the queue is on hold until next year.
If all your business was allowed to do was work on three cases every week, would you hire 200 people to do the work?
Although quotas are a factor, I've received many letters from CIC missions abroad explaining that current delays are due to staffing issues. The former immigration minister viewed staffing as a major concern -- let's hope the new one does the same.
I dont know what the real proplem is, maybe quotas maybe staff issues, but one thing is certain, before sept 11 2001 80% of skilled worker applications in Paris were processed in less than 16months. Now it takes from 48 to 60 months to process 80% of the applications - can you believe it ? However if you have an arranged employment it will take 9 months.
I totally agree with you -- whatever the reason the wait times are completely unacceptable. I've written before that if Canada wants to keep attracting the best and the brightest, it better work on getting wait times down, as the best and brightest can choose to live anywhere, especially the USA!
Immigration is absolutely key to maintaining our standard of living as the boomers retire -- we can't afford to be left in the cold because of avoidable processing delays
I am appalled by how long it takes canada to process applications. The CIC website simply dicourages instead of giving hope when you see that it takes them to 2-3 months to proccess one month's worth of applications. And for the parents... I might as well not go there!
I do have 2 questions which I hope you may be able to answer for me. One is what is the status for Cubans who have applied? I know that in some countries there are certain nationalities that have more trouble getting residency. And 2, what qualifies as common-law partners? How long do two people have to be living together to qualify as that and what proof do they need? Maybe you can help clarify this for me.
Thank you.
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