READ. THINK. IF AGREE POST YOUR THOUGHTS TO IRCC ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS.
Today marks 4 months of IRCC centers being closed and subsequently tests being postponed to an unknown later date. While IRCC has made an attempt to restart the ceremonies bringing them online (which is good by itself, but the rate of the backlog doesn't seem to be going down at all with an odd 1000 people being sworn in only or so the media says) they have been keeping dead silence with regards to resuming testing. A recent statement by the IRCC Minister saying that the government will be working on bringing testing, oaths as well as other citizenship and immigration procedures online is too broad of a statement not shedding any light as to what and when will be happening. The May memo kindly shared by someone in this forum doesn't have an outcome either. I do realize that developing a full-blown platform capable of checking ID's, making sure applicants don't cheat during the test and most-importantly securing the whole connection including not only government owned networks, but also the last mile on the side of the applicants is a huge undertaking in itself. But looking at the ease of restrictions for other parts of day-to-day life raises a simple question at least with me: is dining out more important than citizenship? Can I do without a new pair of socks for a while and instead get my test done? The whole paradigm of essential things in life seems to have shifted for many. Could IRCC take advantage of the season and hold tests in the open to minimize the risk of the virus spread? I believe they could seeing people on patios sipping on beers. Could they put a bit more pressure on AWS or whoever ends up being the final developer and the hosting cloud for testing and oaths? They probably could. There's no way nothing could be done to just get on with it. I understand the staff shortages etc., what I don't understand is that there seem to be no shortage of sales people in stores, so why would there be one with IRCC? Working feverishly on "other important tasks" seems to be a lame excuse now that life is going back to somewhat normal.
This is not criticism, this is an attempt to get IRCC to at least talk to the tens of thousands (soon to become hundreds of thousands) of people waiting. Communication is key in anything that concerns a group of over 1 person. Where communication is in place things generally move smoother and faster.
If you believe the above makes sense feel free to spend just 5 minutes and post your thoughts on social media (be it FB, Instagram or others) tagging IRCC and Marco Mendicino (don't be rude or obscene even if your profile is anonymous, this is not the intent nor this post is meant to be). If there's a significant amount of people doing this it will not go unnoticed and IRCC will provide some sort of comms back. Feel free to tag your MP, MPP, Premier, Prime Minister or whoever else you believe can influence the situation. We are all waiting for answers to the same question and regardless of what the government does keeping it hush to applicants is both not fair and not productive.
If you need an idea of what to post it could be as easy as: DINING OUT (buying a pair of socks, camping, tread milling at the gym or anything else that you could feel like putting in there) IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN CITIZENSHIP. IRCC PLEASE RESUME CITIZENSHIP TESTING and tag both IRCC and Mr. Mendicino. There's no expectations set for this post nor am I trying to raise a waive or turn this into a flash mob of any sort, but if there is a considerable amount of tags it will help all of us. Keeping your frustration and hope to this forum is like another session at Alcoholics Anonimous: helps to release the steam out, but does nothing else. If you don't agree and have a different viewpoint there are no expectations set.
If you generally agree, but don't know how to post/tag, just ask your kids or post your question either here or to google.
Today marks 4 months of IRCC centers being closed and subsequently tests being postponed to an unknown later date. While IRCC has made an attempt to restart the ceremonies bringing them online (which is good by itself, but the rate of the backlog doesn't seem to be going down at all with an odd 1000 people being sworn in only or so the media says) they have been keeping dead silence with regards to resuming testing. A recent statement by the IRCC Minister saying that the government will be working on bringing testing, oaths as well as other citizenship and immigration procedures online is too broad of a statement not shedding any light as to what and when will be happening. The May memo kindly shared by someone in this forum doesn't have an outcome either. I do realize that developing a full-blown platform capable of checking ID's, making sure applicants don't cheat during the test and most-importantly securing the whole connection including not only government owned networks, but also the last mile on the side of the applicants is a huge undertaking in itself. But looking at the ease of restrictions for other parts of day-to-day life raises a simple question at least with me: is dining out more important than citizenship? Can I do without a new pair of socks for a while and instead get my test done? The whole paradigm of essential things in life seems to have shifted for many. Could IRCC take advantage of the season and hold tests in the open to minimize the risk of the virus spread? I believe they could seeing people on patios sipping on beers. Could they put a bit more pressure on AWS or whoever ends up being the final developer and the hosting cloud for testing and oaths? They probably could. There's no way nothing could be done to just get on with it. I understand the staff shortages etc., what I don't understand is that there seem to be no shortage of sales people in stores, so why would there be one with IRCC? Working feverishly on "other important tasks" seems to be a lame excuse now that life is going back to somewhat normal.
This is not criticism, this is an attempt to get IRCC to at least talk to the tens of thousands (soon to become hundreds of thousands) of people waiting. Communication is key in anything that concerns a group of over 1 person. Where communication is in place things generally move smoother and faster.
If you believe the above makes sense feel free to spend just 5 minutes and post your thoughts on social media (be it FB, Instagram or others) tagging IRCC and Marco Mendicino (don't be rude or obscene even if your profile is anonymous, this is not the intent nor this post is meant to be). If there's a significant amount of people doing this it will not go unnoticed and IRCC will provide some sort of comms back. Feel free to tag your MP, MPP, Premier, Prime Minister or whoever else you believe can influence the situation. We are all waiting for answers to the same question and regardless of what the government does keeping it hush to applicants is both not fair and not productive.
If you need an idea of what to post it could be as easy as: DINING OUT (buying a pair of socks, camping, tread milling at the gym or anything else that you could feel like putting in there) IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN CITIZENSHIP. IRCC PLEASE RESUME CITIZENSHIP TESTING and tag both IRCC and Mr. Mendicino. There's no expectations set for this post nor am I trying to raise a waive or turn this into a flash mob of any sort, but if there is a considerable amount of tags it will help all of us. Keeping your frustration and hope to this forum is like another session at Alcoholics Anonimous: helps to release the steam out, but does nothing else. If you don't agree and have a different viewpoint there are no expectations set.
If you generally agree, but don't know how to post/tag, just ask your kids or post your question either here or to google.
