Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Year: 2020
Month: August
Request Number: 2A-2020-15111
Request Summary: The criteria that officers use when they review applications for work visas and Permanent Residency for the Start Up Visa program, since it became permanent (timeframe 2018 to July 2020). The number of work permits and PR issued since the program started in 2013 and how many people applied. Please breakdown into 2013 - 2018 (when SUV was a pilot program), and after 2018 when SUV became a permanent program, if possible. Any records indicating how many start-ups were picked for peer review and how many of them passed peer review. Please break down into before and after 2018, if possible.
Disposition: Disclosed in part
Number of pages: 9