Mr. Kenny....
why r not declrd polcy 4 immm....?
2004
2005 applctss....
No hope for older cases this year
10/05/2011 09:19
STATEMENT MADE BY DAVID MANICOM IN CANADIAN PARLIAMENT :
Mr. David Manicom said "Given the volume of intake under the first set of ministerial instructions, we will not be able to further reduce the inventory of older cases this year."
From House of Commons
Mr. David Manicom (Immigration Program Manager (New Delhi), Area Director (South Asia), Department of Citizenship and Immigration):
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak. My name is David Manicom, and I am Program Manager of the New Delhi visa office, and Area Director for South Asia. I would like to provide a short overview emphasizing topics which I understand are of most interest to the committee.
New Delhi is Canada's largest visa office, with over 150 staff. We are responsible for delivery of the immigration program in India, Nepal and Bhutan. A satellite office in Chandigarh processes temporary residence applications, primarily from the states of Punjab and Haryana. We operate a network of visa application centres in nine major Indian cities and in Nepal, to facilitate the handling of temporary resident applications. Over 90% of applicants choose to use these centres. On an average business day, we render decisions on over 500 applications —more than one per minute.
While I understand temporary resident programs are not of most direct interest to the committee at this time, I do want to spend a moment on this topic, as it is important to understand the overall operation in Delhi, and how resources are managed.
As has been the case for China, India has barely been affected by the world economic crisis, and its economic growth has continued at a rapid pace. Thus, our visitor, study permit and work permit programs have grown very rapidly in the past decade, roughly tripling in size. This pattern continued in 2010 with an increase of about 20% over 2009 volumes. New Delhi assessed over 93,000 temporary resident applications last year, and will receive over 1,000 passports on peak days.
The program is highly seasonal. Intake in spring is more than triple that in January. We cross-train officers and inject resources from the immigrant units in order to remain current on all temporary resident business lines at all times. Doing so reduces the non-value added work generated by delays, and over time preserves the maximum amount of resources for immigrant processing. It does mean, however, that our unit, which processes skilled workers and investors, will have 13 or so officers in the winter, but only six in the summer.
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Delhi does high-volume processing in a high-potential value-added but high-risk environment, where fraud is endemic. To deal with that situation, we have developed several innovative programs where we work closely with stakeholders to manage risk and facilitate low-risk travellers.
For example, our business express program, in cooperation with about 55 large and reliable firms doing regular business in Canada, provides simplified documentation, 24- to 48-hour processing, and an approval rate of over 98%. We think that's important to help Canada meet its objective of dramatically increasing trade with India as India evolves into an economic global power. By streaming these applications separately, we also realize internal efficiencies, conserving our resources for in-depth review of higher-risk cases.
Our student partners program, inaugurated in New Delhi in 2009, and now with 40 participating community colleges, has succeeded in significantly improving approval rates, quadrupling application volumes and permits issued, while managing risk through stricter documentation and feedback information on actual attendance by the schools.
In each of our temporary resident business lines, processing times are falling and are faster than the global norm. For example, 88% of all visitor visa applications are finalized within one week, and over a third of them within two days.
With regard to permanent residents, India has been Canada's second-largest source of permanent residents in recent years. New Delhi issued over 25,000 permanent resident visas last year. New Delhi has by far Canada's largest family class program and also, unfortunately, the largest inventory of economic category applications.
New Delhi issues about 20% of the global family class visas each year. In our priority category, spouses and dependent children, we finalize 80% of cases within six months and the median is four months.
In the parents and grandparents category, output is managed globally. We process sufficient cases each year to meet the objective assigned to the office. Current processing time at the office is 30 months. This does not include sponsorship time at CPC Mississauga.
The primary challenge in the sponsored spouses program is determining whether or not marriages are genuine. Marriages of convenience are common. However, the large majority of marriages are genuine, with about 85% being approved. The majority of cases do not require interviews. However, we provide extensive training to our officers on local law and custom, and if questions about marriages of convenience arise, officers do lengthy interviews to attempt to ensure there is a genuine relationship. We schedule interviews shortly after receiving the applications so that even cases requiring an interview are not significantly delayed.
With regard to sponsored parents and grandparents, the primary difficulty relates to the misrepresentation of dependent children. Many families in our caseload provide fraudulent documentation showing children are still full-time students, or add unrelated children to their files. As applicants are generally elderly, these cases are also frequently delayed by complex medical conditions.
New Delhi has the largest inventory of skilled worker cases submitted prior to the ministerial instructions. Significant progress was made in 2008-09 in reducing the pre-2008 inventory from over 140,000 persons to about 99,000 today, a decrease of over 30%. The processing time for these cases continues to lengthen, and was at 82 months in 2010. For all but a few months of that time, the cases are not in active process, but consume resources through managing correspondence. Owing to the number of new cases submitted under ministerial instructions, we processed few old inventory cases in 2010.
Indian nationals are the highest-volume applicants under the current ministerial instructions. At the present time, we are devoting all available resources to the quick processing of new cases received pursuant to Bill C-50. In 2010 we finalized 80% of all these cases within 10 months. Given the volume of intake under the first set of ministerial instructions, we will not be able to further reduce the inventory of older cases this year.
New Delhi issued over 11,900 skilled worker visas in 2010, an increase from about 8,300 in 2009.
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Topic: Really bad news for New Delhi applicants
Date: 21/06/2011
Subject: oldapplicants
Date: 13/06/2011
Subject: Dealy in process for the PR application
Respected Sir,
Greetings of the day!
I am an applicant and have applied under the Fedral Skilled worker immigration programme on 13th May 2010 but have not received any further instruction on my application and as per the information i have the process will take nearly 2 or more years which is not as per the rules.Kindly update with actual processing time as we have lots of planning which has come to a still due to the dealy.
Thanks & Regards
Shagufta Campwala
Date: 11/05/2011
Subject: waiting time is going to increase again
********Another bad news guys, waiting time is going to increase again
Mr David Manicom is himself saying in his mail that
"If you applied as a Federal Skilled Worker on or after February 27, 2008 and before June 26, 2010 , your application will take two years or more to be processed. This is due to the fact that Canada received over 425,000 applications under this program during this period."
If they are going to wait for 2 years means our turn will come after them, so waiting time is going to increase again.
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>>>>>>>>check out here:-
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/full-docs-to-chc-new-delhi-octnovdec-2010-t56886.1440.html
#Mail to Mr David Manicom from a delhi based Consultant#
Dear Mr. Manicom,
I am writing this email on behalf of all the applicants who applied under the Ministerial Instructions -I and have applications pending at your office.
Mr. Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, announced on 28 November 2008 in Ottawa:
“We expect new federal skilled worker applicants, including those with arranged employment, to receive a decision within six to 12 months compared with up to six years under the old system,” said Minister Kenney. “All other economic class applications—including applicants chosen by Quebec, provincial nominees, the Canadian Experience Class, and live-in caregivers—will continue to be given priority.”
The applicants who submitted their application under Ministerial Instructions-I, in and after March 2010 at CIO Sydney and complete application at New Delhi office in and after May 2010 have not received medical instructions yet. It is already more than 12 months and your office has not processed these applications so far. It is expected by all the applicants that your office should process their files within the timeframe announced by the Hon. Minister.
The applicants who applied after 26 June 2010 under Ministerial Instructions-II have already received medicals instructions and visa whereas those who applied under Ministerial Instructions-I are still waiting to receive the next step of instructions from your office. This is very unfair to the applicants who applied under Ministerial Instructions-I. It is more than 12 months and they are still in dark about the status of their applications. All the applicants are impatient to know when these applications will be processed.
I request on behalf of all the applicants to process these applications within the timeframe as announced by the Minister.
I also request you to update your website to show accurate application processing timeframe.
#Reply From Mr David Manicom#
Dear Ms ___________
We are in the process of working with HQ to update processing information globally in this program. For New Delhi, our revised standard replies will provide information along the lines below. Please note that the processing of cases who applied under Ministerial Instructions II before those who applied under Ministerial Instructions I, was a policy decision taken by the government of Canada.
If you applied as a Federal Skilled Worker on or after February 27, 2008 and before June 26, 2010 , your application will take two years or more to be processed. This is due to the fact that Canada received over 425,000 applications under this program during this period.
* Unfortunately, it will take longer to process federal skilled worker applications submitted under the first set of instructions (between February 27, 2008 and June 25, 2010) than originally projected.
* During this time, the department received applications for more than 425,000 people, and 144,000 of these have not yet received a decision.
* This number represents more than twice the number of projected admissions under the federal skilled worker program in 2011, so many of these applicants will have to wait two years or more to be processed.
Please advise your clients accordingly, thank you.
David Manicom
Minister and Immigration Program Manager
Area Director, South Asia
Canadian High Commission, New Delhi
#Reply to Mr David Manicom#
Dear Mr. Manicom,
Thanks for your update.
A wait for two years or more for the applicants who applied under Ministerial Instructions-I is very unfair. All these applicants applied keeping in mind that their application will be finalized in less than a year as per the statement made by the Immigration Minister of Canada. The government of Canada should have maintained the commitment made by them. If the department had already accepted the applications to meet their admission quota for 2010 and 2011 then they should have stopped accepting more applications instead of accepting all the applications and then dumping them. A policy decision to process the cases who applied under MI-II before those who applied under MI-I is unjust. When the department already has applications under MI-I waiting decision then it is totally unjustified to start the processing of applications under MI-II. The processing of immigration cases was always used to done on the basis of first-cum-first-served. Therefore, the applications under MI-I should have been finalized before the applications under MI-II.
When the Ministerial Instructions –I were announced the department stopped the processing of applications received prior to 27 February 2008. Those applicants are waiting for the last seven years but the government of Canada has taken no decision regarding the processing of these applications. Now, after the announcement of Ministerial Instructions – II, the government of Canada has decided to stop the processing of applications received under Ministerial Instructions –I. The applicants are anxious to know if the fate of their application will be similar to the fate of the applications received prior to 27 February 2008. The Ministerial Instructions – III will be announced on 1 July 2011. Does it mean that after 1 July 2011 your department will stop the processing of applications received under Ministerial Instructions – II?
The government of Canada has collected billons of dollars by accepting all the applications but has not made any concrete policy in processing these applications. The applicants who are foreign nationals have been cheated by the government of Canada. The applicants are taking it as a very big scam.
I hope that the government of Canada will take a concrete step in finalizing all these files.
Regards
XYZ Consultant
Date: 10/05/2011
Subject: backlogged cases
For all but a few months of that time, the cases are not in active process, but consume resources through managing correspondence.
what is the purpose of managing correspondence? cic should not bother to correspond when they are not going to clear the backlog.even these resources can be given to fast track applicants to reduce the timelines of these cases. KALJUG NHEE TAAAAN HOR KEE HAI.
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