The quota for general H&C is so small it would be hard to determine if there was an actual pause. Many appoints aren’t part of an online H&C applicant group. There is a significant backlog of cases who have received AIP and are waiting for PR. It looks like it may take years for the backlog of AIP holders to get PR so there is also likely a reluctance to keep issuing AIPs until some of the AIP holders get PR. The program is such a disaster and needs to be reformed. IRCC is going to get sued whether they attempt to reform the program or do nothing so attempting to make the program functional seems like the better option.
H&C Humanitarian Ground with/or Without Failed refugee claim
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The quota for general H&C is so small it would be hard to determine if there was an actual pause. Many appoints aren’t part of an online H&C applicant group. There is a significant backlog of cases who have received AIP and are waiting for PR. It looks like it may take years for the backlog of AIP holders to get PR so there is also likely a reluctance to keep issuing AIPs until some of the AIP holders get PR. The program is such a disaster and needs to be reformed. IRCC is going to get sued whether they attempt to reform the program or do nothing so attempting to make the program functional seems like the better option.
2026 H&C capacity probably isn’t “finished.” The nominal 1,100 target may well have already been reached, but IRCC has room to go toward 3,000, and it is still processing H&C cases.
Once you receive Stage 1 approval (Approval in Principle), you have successfully jumped over the biggest hurdle, and your file is pulled out of that massive primary backlog.
Highly doubt IRCC is trying to get to the maximum range because they will already have to explain how they approved ~450k PRs and not 385k because they didn’t count their 1 time policy. Voters have been very clear that they want to keep new PRs at a reasonable level and reduce the amount of temporary residents and the Carney governent has clearly received the message based on all their statements. You also assume that if IRCC did go to the higher range of the PR target that general H&C would get the 3k and not the special programs. General H&C would likely only receive a fraction of 3k in the best case scenario if the quota was spread in the same allocation of the total H&C.
Agree but with the overall H&C quota decreasing every year there will still be a substantial backlog between AIP and PR. We are also seeing the courts and groups push back on the long processing times so the government may have no other option but to reform programs. Think everyone can agree that H&C needs to be reformed and that the government choosing to do nothing and hoping that many people will leave or are removed was unlikely to be a longterm sustainable plan. The courts were likely going to force them to make some drastic changes. If the government wants to maintain their PR levels there aren’t many options.
If this many people are waiting, why nobody is signing this petition? Weird
Honestly, and trying not to sound elitist, petitions like this have virtually no effect on government policy. The government is under no obligation to act on any petition presented to parliament (other than to read it out in the House of Commons). The government has its mandates and generally acts in its own self interest, which is to ensure the citizens who voted for them, vote for them again. While it's dropped off the radar recently, immigration has very recently been a touchy subject for the electorate.
Saw another petition on almost the same day that is very similar to this but by Ukrainians waiting for PR. There are similar petitions that appear at least every year This petition isn’t even through the House of Commons supported by an MP (typically Jenny Kwan). As I have pointed on previous posts about petitions you they should at least have concrete suggestions versus just asking for increased quotas and faster processing times which are both unlikely to happen. For a chance at results there should be a suggestion to reallocate quota from another program. There is no political will for politicians to do appear to be calling for increased immigration targets especially now that voters want better control of immigration.
Thought reforms would have already happened but hard to say what the timeline will be. This summer I have seen more examples of the courts being fed up with backlogs and processing times being used as an excuse. The courts are also being overwhelmed with both JRs and mandamus applications. In terms of H&C the quota for general 2027 is down to 1000 people next year while IRCC hasn’t closed the H&C program so the backlog keeps growing (likely a lot more than 1000/year). Using removal as a way to manage H&C while still having to process applications once people have been removed is both an extremely expensive and inefficient way to operate.
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