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Req # A-2022-05710
Please provide the following information. Number of applications for temporary visas processed at Warsaw visa office by nationality, type of visa (Study permits in particular), and the approval/refusal ratio. The time frame for the records is from January 2021 to August 2022Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-10083
Please provide a staffing overview of IRCC's entire department broken down by quarters: # of existing staff # of new hires # of fired staff # of laid off staff # of staff who quit Timelines: January 1, 2019 until October 20, 2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-10093
I would like a monthly list of how many family sponsorship applications were being processed at each foreign and domestic visa centre for January 2019-October 2022 E.g. Ankara January 2022: 903 Ankara February 2022: 867 March 202: 992 Beijing: January 2022: 764 February 2022: 800 March 2022: 124Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-08429
Please provide the number of work permits issued to MobSquad, for the period October 11, 2020 to October 11, 2022. For each permit issued, please also include in the report LMIA category type or LMIA exemption code, as the case may be, for the same time periodOrganization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-13983
Please provide records released under the following completed requests: 1.) A-2021-09001 Request Summary- For the period January 1, 2020 to November 17 2021, and regarding IRCC departmental Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives, please provide the following: 1. Final reports 2. Briefing notes 3. Statistical findings 4. Memorandum 5. Record of meetings 6. Final policies 7. Final guidelines 8. Training documents Provide only English versions where both English and French versions exist. Remove non-relevant records without exemptions by identifying them as such Number of Pages: 269 2.) A-2021-41853 Request Summary- All email correspondence, From January 1 2012 to January 1 2022, incoming or outgoing, in English or French, of the Anti-Racism Task Force which discusses any of the following topics (alone or conjointly) : `Chinook' , `Watchtower' , `AI' or `Artificial Intelligence', `IA' or `Intelligence Artificielle', `ML' or `Machine Learning', `AA' or `Apprentissage Automatique', `China & India' or `China and India', `Chine et Inde', `Algorithmic Impact Assessment' or `AIA', `Évaluation d'Impact Algorithmic' or `EIA', `Project Starling' or `Projet Starling'. Number of Pages: 146 3.) A-2021-19597 Request Summary :Please provide a copy of the Strategic Policy and Planning document prepared for IRCC in April 2019 or beyond titled "Automated Decision Support Policy Playbook: How to ensure responsible use of automation, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence in service of automated decision-making." Please provide the most recent final-draft version of the document prepared in English. Number of Pages: 56Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-13320
For the time period of January 1, 2018 to August 7, 2022, please provide a copy of - the Agenda for the following IRCC committee: (1) Issues Management CommitteeOrganization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-13300
Kindly find attached a copy of an e-mail dated March 29, 2022 regarding an attachment described as "the IAD case law repository". I would like to obtain a copy of the attachment (or more current record). If the attachment was in electronic form, such as a spreadsheet or Word document, please send that rather than a hardcopy.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2022-05573
As a part of this new request, I am requesting the following data for the last 5 years (Up to October 13, 2022) 1. Number of Temporary and Permanent Resident applications filed by Paid and unpaid representatives with the following granular level information: 1. Status of the application in the given year: Approved/Refused/Returned/Withdrawn etc. 2. Was the paid representative a Consultant or a Lawyer. 3. Type of application under Temporary residence: TRV, Study Permit, Work Permit, etc. (if there are many programs then please list top 5 or 10) 4. Type of Permanent residence Application: FSW, Family Sponsorship, Refugee etc. (if there are many programs then please list top 5 or 10) 5. Country wise break down of the dataset: If listing all countries is time consuming, then please list down and top-20 and the rest under "others". I am attaching the sample output that I am looking for.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2021-58505
Clarification 22/02/23: For the period January 1, 2020 to February 23, 2022, provide access to records including but not limited to; contracts, response to request for proposals, Algorithmic Impact Assessment, supplier's commitment to ethical AI, training manuals, correspondences, memos, briefing notes and reports, all of which are concerning Accenture's agreement with IRCC to provide professional services to develop and implement a Power Platform Minimum Viable Product to replace Chinook. Please do not process records that are obviously exempt from access laws, that are direct French translations of the documents that are already being provide in English. If possible, please deliver the requested documents as a text-searchable PDF file. Original: I request access to all record relating to the contract Accenture has with the Canadian government to provide professional services to develop and implement a Power Platform Minimum Viable Product to replace Chinook.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022
Req # A-2021-46199
Copy of briefing note/memo F-1196266 (RAB) Temporary Public Policy to Facilitate the Resettlement of Afghan Nationals Referred by Front Line Defenders and ProtectDefenders.euOrganization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
November 2022