Category: Immigration

Immigrants on track to account for up to 34% of population by 2041, StatsCan says in census release Erlinda Tan, fourth from the right, celebrates with friends from the Edmonton Filipino community after her citizenship ceremony at Canada Place in February 2015. (Submitted by Erlinda Tan) Almost a quarter of Canada’s people were or are immigrants […]

IRCC is still struggling with backlog and now they have started providing monthly data on applications within “service standards” as well as applications in “backlog”. We all know what backlog is, but it is important to understand what are IRCC service standards for all the immigration categories. Canada immigration has different standards of processing application category-wise. This is similar to any business’ […]

Canada immigration backlog stands at 1.49 million as of September 30, 2022 as reported by IRCC on October 14, 2022, but there seems to be discrepancy in this data (explained with correct data in later part of this article). Additionally, 1.11 million applications are under processing within service standards. So, in total, there are 2.6 […]