IRCC has processed more FSWP applications in the past 2.5 months than it did in all of 2021.
According to data released on February 28 by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Canada, Canada's economic class immigration backlog stands at 231,187
applicants awaiting decisions on their applications (IRCC).
The economic class inventory stood at 230,573 people at the beginning of
February 2022, an increase of 614 people. A closer look reveals that progress
has been made, particularly in the inventories for the Canadian Experience
Class and Federal Skilled Worker Program.
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Overall, inventory in the economic classes is decreasing, but inventory
in the TR2PR program is slowing down.
As of the end of October, there were 24,400
less economic class applicants on the backlog. Increases in other economic
class channels delayed these improvements. Non-Express Entry PNP streams, as
well as the Temporary Residence to Permanent Residence (TR2PR) program, saw
some gains. The number of candidates under the PNP grew by 4,685 according to
IRCC. Because base PNPs are paper-based, processing applicants takes longer
than enhanced PNP streams, which are linked with Express Entry
and hence have faster processing times because applications are submitted
online.
Between the middle of December 2021 and the
end of February 2022, the TR2PR program, which has been closed to applicants
since November, saw an increase of 14,153 people. CIC News has contacted IRCC
for an explanation as to why the TR2PR program has seen such a huge surge in
enrollment even after the program has ended. One option is that IRCC has just
lately begun to assess TR2PR program applications, and so they have only
recently been counted in the department's inventory.
The IRCC is making significant progress on the CEC and FSWP inventories.
Inventories in Express Entry-managed programs
are down across the board.
Among all economic class channels, Express
Entry has seen the most improvement, with a decrease of 23,748 people since
December. In December, the Express Entry inventory was at 119,389 people, but
by the end of February, it had dropped to 95,641 people. The Canadian Experience
Class inventory fell by 3,051 people in February, while the Federal Skilled
Worker Program inventory dropped by 4,314 people.
Future immigrants are keeping a close eye on these figures; as all Express Entry draws
have been halted save for PNP candidates. The backlog of applications has
pushed processing timeframes considerably above the six-month threshold;
despite the fact that IRCC's website still claims that the standard is six
months. According to internal IRCC documents, the department aims to reduce
inventory to meet the processing criteria, and then resume Express Entry draws
for candidates in other programs.
The number of Canadian Experience Class (CEC) candidates awaiting
judgments declined by 12,587 between December 15, 2021, and February 28, 2022.
The inventory of the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) has decreased by
9,092. As a consequence, more FSWP applications were processed by IRCC in two
and a half months than handled in the whole of 2021. IRCC handled roughly 600
FSWP applicants each month in the second half of 2021, but current numbers
imply an almost eight-fold rise in the number of FSWP candidates processed per
month presently.
Last year, IRCC slowed FSWP processing in order to convert as many
in-Canada immigration applicants as possible to permanent resident status,
mostly through the CEC. The rationale for this is that the department believed
that using this method would help it meet its objective of landing over 400,000
immigrants by 2021, which it did, breaking Canada's annual immigration record.
If IRCC keeps processing at its current pace, the CEC backlog will be
gone by the summer, and the FSWP backlog will be gone by the end of the year.
Express Entry drawings for qualified workers will resume in the
"near future," according to Immigration Minister Sean Fraser.
However, no specific time has been set.
In December, the total backlog of Canadian immigration,
including permanent residence, temporary residence, citizenship, and visitors,
stood at about 1.8 million. IRCC's application inventory has risen as it tries
to administer the immigration system in a difficult operational environment
during the pandemic. CIC News is waiting on a response to a data request sent
to IRCC earlier this week for an update on the department's application
inventory across all lines of business.
Canada expects to accept about 432,000 new immigrants this year and over
450,000 new immigrants by 2024, according to its revised Immigration Levels
Plan 2022-2024. Increased immigration targets and IRCC's modernization efforts
should gradually reduce the immigration backlog from the record highs seen
during the pandemic.
Some Economic class backlogs:
|
Immigration
category |
Persons
as of Dec. 15, 2021 2022 |
Persons
as of Feb. 28, |
|
Atlantic
Immigration Pilot Programs |
2,998 |
2,577 |
|
Canadian
Experience Class (EE) |
24,675 |
12,088 |
|
Canadian
Experience Class (No EE) |
55 |
84 |
|
Caring
For Children Program |
12,539 |
16,316 |
|
Federal
Self Employed |
4,999 |
5,181 |
|
Federal
Skilled Workers (C-50) |
223 |
197 |
|
Federal
Skilled Workers (EE) |
54,529 |
45,437 |
|
Federal
Skilled Workers (Pre C-50) |
24 |
23 |
|
High
Medical Needs Program |
29 |
15 |
|
Live-in
Caregiver Program |
1,780 |
1,328 |
|
Provincial/Territorial
Nominees (EE) |
39,325 |
37,484 |
|
Provincial/Territorial
Nominees (No EE) |
27,421 |
32,106 |
|
Rural
and Northern Immigration Pilot |
992 |
897 |
|
Start-up
Business |
1,264 |
1,295 |
|
TR to
PR |
20,151 |
34,304 |
|
|
|
|
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