[Leaked]IRCC does assess applications based on country of origin

[Alexios07]

Apparently, some immigration lawyers are able to get their hand on some IRCC's internal training guide which clearly shows some high risks provinces in China. It means any applications from these provinces will have extra attention from IRCC officers.

I find this very interesting since this confirms IRCC does have a database for each country so they will have different approaches when they assess our applications.

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[kateg]

This really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

CIC (and ESDC) want to be efficient, and part of their job is detecting fraud. When they find fraud, they give more scrutiny to people that share factors.

For example, if an employer lies on an application, that employer (and everyone from that employer) gets more scrutiny, as their documents are more likely to be fraudulent.

If there is an increase in people coming from an area and claiming to be visitors, but they file for refugee status when they hit Canada, they get more scrutiny for visas.

If schools are found to have issues with corruption, people with degrees from those schools get more scrutiny.

In this case, some countries are found to have issues with genuineness - lying. So, when a bunch of people from an area get caught lying, they look harder at people coming from those areas.

 

[LokiJr01]

Yeah that's very normal.
Even in Australia, immigration marks a lot of Asian countries to be high risk. This therefore means that additional background checks will apply to applicants living in those areas.

 

[mgnlky]

This really should not come as a shock to anyone.

 

[shashidhar_sm]

This really should not come as a shock to anyone.

I agree, but what I would be really interested in is a similar report for other countries. They probably have a list of high-risk countries, etc, and the officers are asked to refer to these before the final decisions are made.

This gets me wondering if the provinces too have such a process for their PNPs.

 

[mgnlky]

I agree, but what I would be really interested in is a similar report for other countries. They probably have a list of high-risk countries, etc, and the officers are asked to refer to these before the final decisions are made.

This gets me wondering if the provinces too have such a process for their PNPs.

I would be more shocked if they didn't, than if they did. I'm not an expert on immigrating by any means, but having a security (fraud detection) background from a past job, I would think all immigration programs would take a look at any available resource or tool available-- including databases. If CIC has it for EE, I would believe provinces are using them for their PNPs too. At the end of the day, the individuals are still going to fall under CIC, and land in Canada.

 

[Alexios07]

It's just interesting that there are so many frauds from China that IRCC has database for specific provinces, cities and counties.

IIRC, RCMP did find out one of the largest immigration fraud in Richmond, BC run by a Chinese firm last year.