When IRCC just won’t open your file

[Linda_s74]

Applicants who applied pre December 2016 were part of the longer processing times, and IRCC made it clear anyone who applied beyond that date would fall into the new 12 month targets. It wasn't intended to speed up pre December 2016 applications. How is that unfair? This is one of the major optimizations to the process they made.

In any case, IRCC has a target of 80% of applications being processed in 12 months. You have not even hit that mark, so you are jumping to conclusions believing that you will. If processing goes past 12 months, they never promised that 100% of applications would be processed within that timeframe.

The way CIC treated pre-Dec 2016 is exactly unfair. Those applications were literally put aside so that they could guarantee a 12 months processing time for anyone who applied after Dec 2016. Those applicants waited 2+ years to receive a decision on their applications. How is that not unfair?
There was no jumping to conclusions here, the data is clear, the vast majority of August 2018 applicants did not see any background check updates until May of this year while applicants who applied post August 2018 had there background check start processing soon after their medical request. We are talking about a large group of applicants from a particular month who are delayed. Clearly not a one off situation. I don't think that anyone here can provide an answer as to why our applications are delayed. I believe similar to pre-Dec 2016 applicants, there was a policy change that took place that impacted our processing time.

 

[pr90]

It’s such a frustrating, helpless feeling! No updates, no timeline, no rhyme or reason. Calling does no good at all — the representatives are all kind enough, and I appreciate how busy they must be, but they can’t do or tell us anything. Yet people who applied later are breezing right along...

July applicant here and been quiet since Nov. after SA and medical... Its annoying my friend but you just have to suck it up, some applicants get the luck of a draw and finish in 6 months others have to wait the full 12 months. You can't do anything and they're will not oblige to answer any question regarding your application if it hasn't passed the 12 month mark. Also depends on where your papers was sent to, do some research on that VO in the forum for average time and if it's LVO then yea 10-12 months easy. Also once the application gets transferred, agents in Canada basically have little access to the file anymore. Hey but once BGC starts and no fault found then it will only take days for PPR to follow.

 

[luckyrabbit13]

What worries me is that they’re not obliged to answer anything even after it goes past the 12-month point, either! Before a year has passed, it’s “well it’s not 12 months yet” and after a year it’s “well we only said 80% within a year; we promised you nothing, keep waiting.” If they have the time, staff, and resources to start background checks on 2019 applicants, why don’t they also start on the 2018 people? At least delays *after* starting would be understandable delays! This is just picking and choosing. I know other countries take even longer, and that they’re very busy, but I don’t get why the work flow is set up this way.

July applicant here and been quiet since Nov. after SA and medical... Its annoying my friend but you just have to suck it up, some applicants get the luck of a draw and finish in 6 months others have to wait the full 12 months. You can't do anything and they're will not oblige to answer any question regarding your application if it hasn't passed the 12 month mark. Also depends on where your papers was sent to, do some research on that VO in the forum for average time and if it's LVO then yea 10-12 months easy. Also once the application gets transferred, agents in Canada basically have little access to the file anymore. Hey but once BGC starts and no fault found then it will only take days for PPR to follow.