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Req # 1A-2022-11578
Please provide the approval and refusal rates for temporary resident permits globally between 2020-2022 .Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-11513
Please provide the percentage of all applicants across all application categories globally that are represented by immigration consultants between 2020-2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-11632
I would like to receive any documents including emails about the IRCC's call centre and web form processing times, especially about citizenship grants, from 2019 onward until April 25, 2022 with information such as: how many daily phone calls are received AND answered, any explanation as to why people are being told that there are high call volumes and they cannot reach an agent, how many people are being hung up on by the automated system because of high call volumes, how many days it takes for the IRCC to reply to web form requests (which currently seems to be 50 days), what do the IRCC employees say about taking 50 days to respond to a web form -are there any complaints about the workload, and is the IRCC doing anything to improve these response times, and if so, what they are doing. If possible, I would like a comparison of these response times to see the difference between before the COVID19 pandemic and the current situation.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-11522
Please list how artificial intelligence is being used to support decision-making in 2022Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-11527
Please provide the average processing times for a temporary resident permit in Canada between 2020-2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
Req # 1A-2022-11422
Please provide the number of applicants refused for criminality across all application categories globally between 2020-2022.Organization: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
May 2022
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