According to an internal memo released by the immigration department of Canada, it has been found out that currently Federal Skilled Trades Program and Canadian Experience Class applicants have been put on hold for some time, in order to concentrate more on clearing the prevalent backlog in the system.
The internal memo has briefings on how Canada’s Express Entry system will operate.
It states that the IRCC, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada stopped the FSWP solicitations in December last year that included the strategy of calling candidates who belonged to the Canadian Experience Class. This comes under a specific stream called the Temporary to Permanent pathway stream which is aimed at candidates applying for the 2021 immigration.
In the previous week, the backlog was 1.8 million applications for October 2021. Candidates from the TR (Temporary Residents), PR (Permanent Residents), and CC (Citizens of Canada) are included in the backlogs. It has also been noticed that in July 2021, there was an increase of 1.5 million applications. According to the statistics, 99,968 applications from the Express Entry categories are waiting to be processed since October 27th.
Since then, there has been an eventual relief on the backlog of the Express Entry Applications. On September 3 there was another briefing that noted that there were108,500 backlogs still.
This clearly shows that between September and October the backlog decreased by 8,500 applications.
The candidates of the Express Entry were 62,450 candidates as it was one year ago in September. The strategy of IRCC has been doubled in the middle of IRCC’s decision to provide the potential immigrants with a Canadian PR status.
It was directly quoted by the IRCC that in order to meet the Afghanistan crisis of resettlement, the objectives were launched to conquer the face-off of the CEC, spousal, and TR to PR programs. This has led the immigration department to reach a consensus of sending invitations to 760,000 candidates out of which 360,000 belong to the economic class.
It cannot be determined if the prediction of the IRCC has diversified. Previously, the leading statistics suggested that in October, there were over 550,000 candidates, half of them make 255,000 were under the economic class. Although a minor decline was noticed in-between September and October. It can also be assumed that the immigration department of Canada has amended its backlogs and they are not as large to be exhibited in the memo of September 3rd.
All the backlogs by the Express Entry need to be eliminated by IRCC if it wants to achieve its processing goals of the Express Entry bench in six months or less.
In the end, it is concluded that the officers at the IRCC office will become the department’s highest-ranking civil servants. Starting from November 1st, Catrina Tapley, the deputy minister came up with a plan that the rest of the remaining 2021 and the initial 2022, the department will maintain a better composition and only then look into the targets of 2022.
Explaining Express Entry
The Express Entry system is directly linked to the Federal government. It is responsible for the three economic class programs: The Canadian Experiences Class, Federal skilled Worker Program, Federal skilled trades program. Canada has one direct way to welcome its immigrants into the country and that is the Express Entry System.
All the candidates who meet the eligibility requirement of any one of the above-mentioned programs shall be allowed to create a profile on the digital portal of the IRCC. It is then that they get a CRS score which is based on their human capital factors and background, it includes factors like age, educational qualification, fluency in languages of English and French, and experience of previously residing in Canada.
Before the pandemic, Canada held draws every two weeks and the candidates who had scored the highest were invited. They were given an Invitation to Apply to get a permanent residency status. The time duration to submit the application was 2 months. It was then 6 months wait for the completed and submitted applications to be processed by the IRCC. The greatest number of ITAs were taken by the permanent residents followed by the candidates of the Federal Skilled Workers Program and Canadian Experience Class Programs.
The pandemic has changed things, nonetheless. This year, IRCC has just welcomed CEC and Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) possibility to apply for PR, regardless of whether they were not the most noteworthy scoring applicants among all up-and-comers in the Express Entry pool. In addition, IRCC isn’t right now ready to focus on keeping up with its handling standard of a half-year because of the pandemic.
The CEC is a well-known program among previous global understudies and unfamiliar specialists who have something like 1 year of expert work insight in Canada. The objective of a provincial nominee program is to fulfill the labor market needs of the provinces all over Canada and uplift the country’s economy. A candidate in the Express Entry Pool can meet the requirements of a PNP and thus be invited by anyone in one of the provinces that suits them.
On the off chance that the up-and-comer acknowledges the greeting, they get 600 extra CRS focuses, which basically ensures they will get an ITA under Express Entry.
The objective of IRCC is to welcome almost 401,000 permanent residents as aimed by the Immigration Levels Plan 2021-2023. More emphasis was laid on welcoming CEC and PNP candidates this year. IRCC has listed two reasons for inviting CEC and Provincial Nominee Candidates.
In the first place, CEC competitors are for the most part in Canada and subsequently less inclined to be affected by COVID-related interruptions that would block their capacity to acquire permanent residency and henceforth subvert IRCC’s capacity to land 401,000 foreigners this year. Second, IRCC sees PNP attracts as important to help the work market needs of Canada’s territories.
This year, IRCC has held 33 PNP explicit draws, welcoming 17,785 applicants taking all things together. In the interim, there have been 27 CEC explicit draws, bringing about 133,868 solicitations.
On September 14 the last Canadian Experience Class draw was recorded. The IRCC preparation note shows the delay in CEC attracts is to permit IRCC to deal with its present Express Entry accumulation.
FSWP up-and-comers have been the ones most contrarily affected by the above transitory approach changes.
