2013 applicant waiting too long, 2014 fast

[sazamizi]

I guess people coming here are mostly selected randomly as we see some people with normal processing time while other people need to wait for. If we don't get stuck 2 3 percent more or less, it's crystal clear that we can extract the trend of how CIC usually processes applications.
Based on what we have seen here and heard from people outside of the forum, CIC is definitetly processing 2014 applications faster than the previous years. This is not making me happy but that's the thing.

brbr is just playing around -- he obviously knows something about stats, which means that he knows what he is doing only applies if the sample size is random. There's no reason to think that the posts of citizenship applicants on this forum are selected randomly from the entire natural pool of citizenship applications -- it's highly likely that people who post here have some non-standard issue that they need to check on. Without a random selection, the computation's he's performing are meaningless. Statisticians care more about sampling than anything else, it is the foundation of the discipline: but he's aware of that, just not bringing it up.

 

[pie_vancouver]

^the reason is that 2013 applicants paid $100 and 2014 applicants paid $200
so expect people from 2014 get 6months from start to oath
while us is 1 year or more :-X

 

[sazamizi]

It does explain that

^the reason is that 2013 applicants paid $100 and 2014 applicants paid $200
so expect people from 2014 get 6months from start to oath
while us is 1 year or more :-X

 

[screech339]

^the reason is that 2013 applicants paid $100 and 2014 applicants paid $200
so expect people from 2014 get 6months from start to oath
while us is 1 year or more :-X

Interesting hypothesis. You do realize that the 100 or the 200 increased fee doesn't even cover the actual cost of processing the citizenship process.

The only process I know that the fees actually cover the cost is the Passport service.

Screech339

 

[pie_vancouver]

^One of the factors, aside from lack of manpower in certain cities that they SHOULD address so we have a fair process
but life is unfair as we all know LOL