According to the Toroo Star, according to Karen Hogan, Auditor General of Canada, inefficie manageme practices of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officials and changing priorities have caused applicas to face long waiting times.
According to this report and considering that Canada’s new immigration program shows the admission of 465 thousand people this year, 485 thousand people next year and 500 thousand people in 2025, the question has been raised whether this departme has the capacity to deal with this Does it have the volume of requests?
Over the past year, the immigration program focused on eight Canadian permane residence programs in the economic, family and refugee and humanitarian categories, all of which have been delayed. Canada seems to receive more requests than it can handle.
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With all these conditions, Mark Miller, the coury’s immigration minister, poiing out the importance of immigration in Canada’s long-term success, announced that in order to improve conditions and reduce the number of delays, he will coinue to digitize programs, hire and train new employees, and use automation to increase processing capacity and efficiency. . However, the Auditor General believes that the Immigration Departme has not monitored the implemeation of its new digital tool to determine whether the processing time has been reduced or not. Or what were its unwaed effects on the applicas.
Immigration officials aim to process 80 perce of applications on the same timeline as the departme’s service standards, but data shows the backlog at the end of last year exceeded 20 perce, with refugees experiencing the longest wait times. The federal Skilled Workers Program fared the worst, with only three perce of applications meeting the six-moh timeline.
The auditor general criticized Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for not always processing applications based on their priority, corary to its operating principle. In addition, backlogs appear to vary by coury, for example in the asylum program, more than half of applications submitted by citizens of Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo were delayed, while only one-third of applications from Syria were delayed.
