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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

1 year

Sometimes the best compliments about you come in an ATIP.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

6 months

Gazans applying under IRCC's new visa program are being asked to list all previous phone numbers and e-mail addresses, provide links to all social media accounts, give a history of any scars or injuries they have sustained, and describe any disciplinary issues that they had at

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

I do not understand why IRCC has not said something along the lines of "due to an expected x month pause on Canadian Experience Class draws we are extending all current work permits by x months (or even one year to keep it simple)."

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

Predictions?

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Steven Meurrens

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The number of Canadian study permits processed for Indian nationals collapsed in March.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

Canada is modifying and increasing its planned immigration levels in 2022 from 411,000 to 431,645. It is, however, reducing Express Entry from 108,500 to 55,900 to make way for TRPR applications. The Express Entry reduction is for two years.

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

November 24, 2021 internal IRCC Memo states that FSWC processing times are expected to rise to 36 months in 2022 and that the Federal High Skilled admissions target in upcomming years could be reduced by more than 50% due to the TRPR backlog and Afghan refugee resettlement.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC processing inventory of permanent residence applications and temporary residence applications, broken down by category, as of April 29, 2022 (in persons)

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

I do not understand why to travel to Canada a person from a visa exempt country can use an electronic authorization, but a person from a visa requiring country needs a visa glued to a passport and a permanent resident needs a physical card. Why isn't everything electronic?

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

The Canadian government has committed to a target of 401,000 immigrants in 2021. IRCC is going to need two record breaking quarters to achieve this. In July 39,560 people became permanent residents. If IRCC can slightly increase and maintain this pace, they will meet their goal.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Looking for some holiday reading? Here is a reduced size PDF copy of IRCC's training material for processing permanent residence and PR Card applications. This is the course that IRCC officers take. Please e-mail me if you would like a higher quality PDF.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

1 year

IRCC checklist for determining if a citizenship application is complete. Hopefully this will be useful to those reviewing their applications to ensure that they are not bounced for incompleteness.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

A former IRCC employee tells CBC that instructions came "from the top" that "people from this country, people from that country, they're all liars."

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

10 months

2022 study permit refusal rates for the top 20 source countries sorted by number of applications that IRCC processed.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

Federal Court rules that the COVID-19 pandemic cannot justify significant processing delays without more detail as to why as "all institutions throughout Canada have also adapted to addressing backlogs and delays to various degrees of success."

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC training materials for officers assessing temporary resident visa applications. How would you decide?

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC: There is no need to meet with an immigration lawyer or consultant. Also IRCC: If you e-mail us any questions we will remove you from our list of applicants who can get a new work permit in round 1.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

1 year

I'm not sure if @SeanFraserMP will still be the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada after tomorrow's cabinet shuffle, but I do think that he will be a future Prime Minister.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

In the future all temporary and permanent residence applications will be submitted electronically. Applicant information will go into a shared IRCC, CBSA and CSIS database so security and other inadmissibility issues can be automatically flagged before an application is approved.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Federal Court grants mandamus, determines that IRCC did not sufficiently explain why COVID-19 caused a delay, and also finds that IRCC misled the applicant and the court about status of background checks. IRCC also ordered to pay the applicants $1,500.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

The TRPR pathway opened on May 6, 2021. It received 40,000+ applications that day, and 77,000+ total. IRCC's goal was to finalize 35,000 to 44,000 applications in 2021. As of September 5 it had opened 20,256, did completeness checks on 12,730, and passed eligibility for 889.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

7 months

IRCC Country Information Library: Nigeria Flag: Both marriage and birth certificates are easy to fake and difficult to verify. A significant number of misrepresentation findings in the temporary resident caseload are based on submittal of fraudulent letters of financial

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

8 months

2022 and 2023 study permit approval rates for post-secondary institutions requested by followers. The raw data for all designated learning institutes, which includes application numbers as well as approval rates, can be found on my blog here.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

At some point IRCC needs to stop issuing press releases about how STARTING NOW they will be prioritizing yet another application stream and actually start processing applications.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

It would be helpful to lift the visa requirement for Ukranians and let them travel to Canada on Electronic Travel Authorizations. This would get rid of the need for Ukranians to send their passports to a closed embassy in order to have a paper visa taped to it.

CTV News

@CTVNews

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government will be prioritizing immigration for Ukrainians wanting to come to Canada.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

1 year

An e-mail from IRCC New Delhi has raised concerns that Pearson Test of English (PTE) results are consistently higher than IELTS results, leading to concerns that the former are inflated. The sender of the e-mail recommends that IRCC stop accepting PTE results as proof of English.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC agrees to pay a permanent resident whose citizenship application was in processing for over 20 years $65,000.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

IRCC Guidelines for Reconsideration of a Refused Temporary Residence Application, available only through Access to Information Act requests.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

On April 14, 2020, the percent of staff on leave at Canada's major visa processing centers was: Mississauga - 81% Edmonton - 60% Sydney - 84% Ottawa - 78% I post this not to criticize prioritizing employee safety, but so people can understand part of why backlogs exist.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

In 2019 IRCC approved 91% of spousal sponsorship applications. That same year, it approved 47% of visitor visa applications for people with spousal sponsorship applications in processing.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

May 2021 internal IRCC Memo to the Deputy Minister notes that the TRPR pathway could impact operational activities in 2022 and displace applicants in other inventories, some of whom will have significantly aged applications.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

A February 2022 Memo to the Minister notes that the introduction of the 2021 NOC will result in 16 occupations becomming eligible for Express Entry, and three becomming ineligible. The eligibility cut-off will go from Skill Level B to TEER 3. Changes to take effect in November.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

10 months

Canada's planned immigration target is to go from 465,000 in 2023 to 485,000 in 2024. If you were going to either maintain or reduce numbers, which program(s) would you reduce?

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC REP 2019-2470 - The spouse of a student has an open work permit. It says under Remarks that the work permit is only valid if the student is studying. Does the spouse have to stop working if the student stops studying? Answer - No. The work permit is valid until it expires.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

A 2019 IRCC Training Manual for tourist visas from Indian nationals notes that "Kids in India are not back-packers as they are in Canada." I can't even.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

Federal Court rules that if an applicant submits an incomplete application but provides the missing documents before a decision is rendered then the additional documents should be treated as part of the application, or IRCC needs to explain why not.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

10 months

The Supreme Court of Canada next Wednesday will be releasing a very important immigration law decision. Section 34(1)(e) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act states that "a permanent resident or a foreign national is inadmissible on security grounds for engaging in

Supreme Court of Canada

@SCC_eng

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Judgment to be rendered in appeal on September 27, 2023. #SCCAppeal

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Federal Court quashes a study permit refusal (and seemingly DOJ arguments) which implied that someone who is not wealthy and needs financial assistance will not leave Canada by the end of their stay, saying that it is "absurd and perpetuates stereotypes."

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

7 months

At a time when international graduates and foreign workers are struggling to immigrate because of record high Comprehensive Ranking Score points in Express Entry, it seems this announcement is not being received as well as it otherwise might. A 'broad' program is also not

Robert Fife

@RobertFife

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Immigration Minister planning ‘broad’ program to create citizenship path for undocumented in Canada

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

11 months

IRCC training materials for processing study permit applications from Indian citizens note that visa officers should "look for unexplainable large deposits within six months prior to application submission." This is a common reason for refusal, and applicants should review bank

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

IRCC limits open spousal work permit program to (a) close rotating spouses "loophole" (b) require genuineness be demonstrated (c) narrow spouses of students to students doing PGWP eligible programs and (d) not let students also get open spousal permits.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC notice on its use of advanced analytics affirms that AI does not refuse files. The AI sends files that it has not approved to officers to process. I have supplemented today's notice with instructions to visa officers on AI triage obtained through ATI.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

From an internal IRCC e-mail. "It's been bothering me for a while that we don't have a lot of structure around our processing priorities. They just seem to pop up, sometimes linked to principles but it's hard to tell."

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Number of Permanent Resident Applications Received, By Immigration Category and Month From Jan-June 2019 and Jan-June 2020. Of course, for the months where these statistics suggest that no applications were received it really means no received applications were opened.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

6 months

The most pressing economic immigration issue is not transitioning temporary residents to permanent resident status, or filling labour shortages in healthcare, STEM, trades, transport or agriculture. Rather, it appears to be promoting Francophone migration outside of Quebec.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Federal Court orders that IRCC pay $62,040 to a Quebec Skilled Worker whose permanent residence application was in process for almost a decade with officer mistakes and unexplained delays before it was impacted by the 2019 Quebec CSQ cancellation law.

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Steven Meurrens

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7 months

IRCC Country Information Library: India KEY INFORMATION: India is the third largest source country of immigrants to Canada. Fraud is prevalent in employment and education documents, and it is a "high-risk" country for marriages of convenience. There is a high level of

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Two Federal Court decisions with opposite rulings as to whether visa officers in a truck driver work permit application can say that truck driving experience in Dubai does not count because Dubai has different weather than Canada.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

A July 2020 Inventory of Upcoming Public Policies shows some interesting IRCC policy proposals that were never (or at least not yet) implemented.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC processing fees for permanent residence applications are increasing April 30, 2022.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

5 months

As per a 2007 IRCC Training Manual, here are some indicators of marriage fraud.

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@CitImmCanada

5 months

Lovebirds in Canada 💕: Real love isn’t a crime, but marriage fraud is! To all Canadian citizens and permanent residents, be cautious about falling into the trap of a “marriage of convenience” and allowing a sponsored spouse or common-law partner to immigrate to Canada

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

IRCC data shows just how much temporary resident processing slowed down during the spring and summer of 2020. The full dataset as a PDF can be downloaded here.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

On August 31, 2020 around 16% of IRCC's domestic staff were on leave, as were 39% of overseas staff. I publish this not to criticize IRCC measures to protect employee health and respond to local COVID measures, but because people deserve to know a part of why files are delayed.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

IRCC has announced that it has updated its guidelines on when it will be facilitative when it receives incomplete applications rather than rejecting them, but that the new guidelines will not be public. #transparency #ATIP #transparency #ATIP

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

A January 21, 2022 Memo to the Deputy Minister states that the pause on non-PNP Express Entry intake will continue until at least March 31, 2022. Small rounds in late 2022 are required to meet 2023 levels planning. The minimum CRS score to get an ITA for even CEC may exceed 500.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

IRCC's goal is to process 80% of caregiver applications within 12 months of the received date. The table below demonstrates the actual percentage of applications finalized by received month.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Study Permit Approval Rate by Country For January 1 - May 31, 2020 The rate for the top ten source countries was: Bangladesh - 27% Colombia - 66% India - 51% Iran - 30% Japan - 97% Korea - 95% Nigeria - 12% People's Republic of China - 64% Phillippines - 57% Vietnam - 56%

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

10 months

IRCC will be using advanced analytics to triage work permit extension applications and post-graduate work permit applications. Considering current processing times this is a welcome development. The IRCC Notice says "Only an IRCC officer can refuse an application; the automated

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 months

Federal Court rules that study permit applicants in their study plans can state that they wish to stay in Canada after graduating and apply for permanent residency. However, they do have to satisfy an officer that they will not remain in Canada illegally, and that they will leave

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

5 months

Canada has to run advertisements (ironically in English) in order to attract French-speaking immigrants to immediately apply for and obtain permanent residency. There are hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals currently in Canada, already contributing, who cannot immigrate.

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@CitImmCanada

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Canada is seeking to attract more French-speaking immigrants outside Quebec. This will help contribute to the vitality, development and prosperity of Francophone minority communities in Canada. If you want to immigrate permanently to Canada, visit the Express Entry website for

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

The study permit approval rate for Nigeria is really low. Yet, according to @StatCan_eng international graduates from Nigeria have higher than average median earnings for PGWP holders and one of the highest percent of PGWP holders reporting T4 earnings.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

The IRCC website states that open work permits under the TRPR expire on December 31, 2022 because all TRPR immigration applications will be processed by then. Today's announcement shows many won't be. Hopefully they quickly extend TRPR open work permits.

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

Federal Court affirms that in Express Entry applicants do not need to submit supporting documents for factors that they are not claiming points for, and it is unreasonable for IRCC to bounce applications for this.

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Steven Meurrens

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1 year

Federal Court rules that it will be reasonable for a visa officer to refuse a study permit application if the applicant has low grades from a previous program of study in "core courses" or "core subjects" that are related to the intended program of study in Canada. The onus is

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

The Minister Mandate Letter says he should continue to bring newcomers to Canada to drive economic growth and recovery, as set out in the 2021-2023 Immigration Levels Plan. If they do not increase the plan 2022 will either be a year of growing backlogs or very restrictive intake.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

9 months

IRCC uses advanced analytics to sort visitor visa applications into tiers. Tier-1 applications pass eligibility automatically. In September 2022, in order to reduce IRCC's visitor visa inventory, IRCC planned to adjust the triage model so that the number of Tier 1 applications

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

IRCC REP-2019-2540 Is IRPR 186(w), which lets eligible international graduates work without a work permit while waiting for IRCC to process their work permit applications, limited to post-graduate work permit applications? Answer - No.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

Most online applications from those in India and China are triaged through artificial intelligence. Tier 1 applications automatically receive a positive eligibility decision. Tiers 2 and 3 are manually reviewed, with approval rates of 86% and 43% (China), and 63% and 13% (India).

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

The possibilities of how Chat GPT can be used in the immigration law context are endless.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 months

It is becomming increasingly common for visa officers to state that a visa was refused because "the purpose of [the Applicant’s] visit to Canada is inconsistent with a temporary stay” without further explanation. Federal Court affirms that this is unreasonable.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

9 months

Federal Court reaffirms that if an applicant incorrectly fills out an application form, but correctly discloses the relevant information in another part of their application (like a cover letter), then this may mitigate against a misrepresentation finding.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

9 months

If your study permit application is refused it is not a good idea to send death threats to the visa office before re-applying.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

IRCC has told @CBAImmigration that it has recently been rejecting spousal sponsorship applications due to a GCMS software glitch. The issue that led to the rejections involved applicants who live in Canada and were applying under the Family Class.

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

Federal Court states that "it is not consistent with the objectives of IRPA to continue to process applications from Western countries while applications in Ghana were left to languish." Grants mandamus and orders IRCC pay costs.

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

By capping an immigration program at 90,000 applicants and not providing any information about the application package or process with less than three days till the program opens IRCC is pretty much guaranteeing bad media coverage for what should have been a winner.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

3 years

On December 14, 2020, due to COVID-19, 19% of IRCC offices were open, 76% were partially open and 5% were closed. 81% of international staff were working in person or remotely. 19% were on leave. 22.5% of Canadian Based Staff positions abroad were vacant.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

4 months

All the IRCC case codes and what they mean.

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

Federal Court rules that given the wording on the IRCC website it is unreasonable for IRCC to reject Express Entry applications that do not include copies of diplomas or degrees for proof of education if applicants provide other proof of education.

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Steven Meurrens

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1 year

The Federal Court has released its first reported decision involving an Indian national facing deportation over a fraudulent acceptence letter. The Court upheld a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board which found that while the student was not complicit in fraud, the

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

I am pretty certain you are looking the wrong way.

Marco Mendicino

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Trying my hand as a @CanBorder officer at the Peace Arch Crossing - just in case this politics thing doesn’t work out!

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Steven Meurrens

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The Canadian government is conducting a 30-day consultation on proposed regulations that will enable it to suspend designated learning institutions from having international students. This is a turn from its previous position that determining which post-secondary schools could

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

In April 2020, there were 70,906 permanent resident applicants with approved applications who were outside Canada. While some were exempt from Canada's travel ban, most have been unable to land as permanent residents. Application processing would stop at the final stage.

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

The processing time for an Access to Information Act request is supposed to be thirty days. I feel like it would take at least that long to locate a physical file in storage.

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Steven Meurrens

@smeurrens

2 years

Available for download - 47 pages of internal Service Canada guidance on how officers are to assess whether offer of employments are genuine in Labour Market Impact Assessment applications.

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

Automatic work permit extensions coming for those whose PGWPs are expiring and TRPR applicants. No need to apply. As someone who in the past has expressed frustration with the lack of automatic extensions I am thrilled.

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

IRCC REP Q&A - 2017-1755 Question - If an initial post-graduate work permit application is refused is it possible to submit an application to restore one's status to get a PGWP? Answer - Yes. By following the steps in this e-mail. 👇

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Steven Meurrens

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IRCC report states that it in 2021-2022 it cost on average the following per case to process the following types of applications: Agri-Food Pilot - $14,392 ARC - $10,682 Caregivers - $2,663 CEC - $542 Citizenship - $685 H&C - $5,430 IEC - $660 International Mobility Program -

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

The Liberals have been in government since October 2015. Since then Canada's visitor visa approval rate has significantly decreased compared to when Stephen Harper had a majority. It is not clear why since this certainly does not match rhetoric. Source -

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Steven Meurrens

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In 2019, it took the average IRCC officer 16-28 minutes to process initial study permit applications. Of this, 3-10 minutes was spent on Pre-Assessment, which includes intake, file-creation, pre-screening, biometric enrolment, manual inputting of up-front medical results and

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

April 2022 IRCC Memorandum to the Minister - Measures to Facilitate the Issuance of a New Open Work Permit to Post-Graduation Work Permit Holders.

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

Federal Court rules it is unreasonable for IRCC to refuse a truck driver's work permit application on the basis that the applicant did not provide IELTS to show English ability if they have already been working as a truck driver in Canada for two years.

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Federal Court rules that IRCC may need to consult with ESDC before refusing LMIA based work permit applications for genuineness and that it is unreasonable to ask prospective employees to provide business information about employers they don't work at.

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

IRCC is recommending that people who submitted visa applications before September 7, 2021, re-apply if the need to travel is urgent. This will result in the previous application being withdrawn. There is no guarantee of a refund of the processing fee.

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

You see this and you feel bad for IRCC. Then you pause and think "Why didn't they create an online application system where people could upload documents directly to their file?"

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Steven Meurrens

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2 years

From 2019 to October 27, 2021, IRCC received 23,644 applications under the Home Child Care Pilot or the Home Support worker Pilot. As of October 27, 2021 it had approved 556 of these applications, with 222 admissions as permanent residents.

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Approval rates of work permit applications by LMIA Exemption, Gender, India vs. All Other Countries, 2015-2019 2019 Approval Rates All LMIA Exemptions India ♀️ 72% ♂️ 76% Other Countries ♂️♀️ both 91% Spouse of Skilled Worker India ♂️♀️ both 45% Other Countries ♀️74% ♂️67%

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Steven Meurrens

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1 year

IRCC announces that it is doing its first ever round of Express Entry invitations for newcomers with experience in the trades. This statement appears to ignore the Federal Skilled Trades rounds of invitation on May 26 2017, November 1 2017, May 30 2018, September 24 2018, May 15

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

The Final Report of the IRCC Anti-Racism Employee Focus Group indicates that some employees believe that "overt and subtle racism they have witnessed by both employees and decision makers can and probably must impact case processing."

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Steven Meurrens

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3 years

The @liberal_party platform says that if re-elected they will make citizenship applications free, reduce processing times, create a visitor visa program for spouses with immigration applications in processing and resettle 40,000 Afghan refugees. [1/2]

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