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Req # 1A-2022-11497
Please provide the percentage of family class applicants that challenge negative decisions to the Immigration Appeal Division between 2020-2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-00123
I would like to receive details about how the IRCC is handling the growing backlog of Citizenship applications. How many citizenship applications are there, how many were processed so far in 2022? How many of them are paper vs. online applications? Why did the processing time from application submission to acknowledgment of receipt has gone down from approximately 5 months to 5 weeks recently, but the citizenship application grant processing estimate was just increased from 12 months to 27 weeks? How is the IRCC able to send acknowledgments of receipts within 5 weeks if there is a 27 month backlog of applications that are waiting for a decision? In addition, there are many data points on the internet from people who applied for citizenship proving that applicants who send their applications by paper are receiving their applications processed months faster than people who submitted their application online. Sometimes paper applicants who did NOT even apply for urgent processing are getting their background verification completed within a few days of acknowledgment of receipt while online applications are waiting months without any progress at all. Why is the IRCC prioritizing paper applications over online applications when the whole point of online applications was to reduce processing times?Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-01386
Copy of briefing note/memo F-1211877 (SPPB) Updating Ministerial Instructions for Work Permits in Caregiver Occupations. Please exclude cabinet confidences that would require consultation to confirm cabinet confidences.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-16820
Please provide the data on the application received, approved and Refused from 2010-2022, for all the visa categories broken down by place of birth (city, province, state) and place of current residence of the applicants in India, China, Southeast Asia, Russia.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-13036
Looking for data related to the duration of Post-Graduation Work Permits issued. As your program area lead will know PGWP are (typically) either issued for 1 year or 3 years , duration eligibility depends on the length of the respective applicant's duration of studies. Simply put , we are trying to understand how many international graduates are issued 1 year PGWP work permits compared to how many graduates are issued 3 year PGWP work permits. Data from 2012 to most recent/present (April 27th, 2022) would be wonderful, but I will certainly take what i can get.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-17393
Requesting 1 email of David Cashaback that is contained in the To or From for the period August 1, 2020 to November 7, 2020, excluding records requiring consultations with PCO and DOJ.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-14679
I am requesting information on temporary resident visas (TRVs) and temporary resident permits (TRPs) issued to Lebanese nationals between January 2019 and April 2022. Specifically, I am requesting the number of TRVs and TRPs issued, the type of TRVs (visitor visa, study permit, work permit), the date of issuance, and the duration of the TRVs and TRPs. In addition, I am requesting information on which of these TRV and TRP recipients subsequently filed refugee claims with IRCC in Canada.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-18755
Please provide an overview of inventory for all visa posts globally. Break out by visa post, type of file, and # in inventory. Timeline: inventory as of May 9, 2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-16748
I am requesting the number of requests for citizenship received under each of Section 5 (4) and 5 (5) of the Citizenship Act, for the period 2009 to May 3, 2022. In addition to the total number of requests for citizenship received, I am also requesting the number of applications for citizenship approved and the number of applications rejected during the same period, 2009 and May 3, 2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-17188
Number of visitor records issued annually to dependent children broken down by country of origin. Number of study permits issued annually to dependent children broken down by country of origin. The Date range for this request is January 1 2015 to December 31 2021Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022