mitali said:
Dear friends,
The following is a link to a recorded session of Canada immigration. The topic is for a "study of immigration application process wait times".
Excellent must read for people who want to get a brief insight on how CIC functions; scans over various topics like baby steps of GCMS and what are the functions of the system; where do the manpower resources appear and disappear .....what we think as "why the VO's are so slow...maybe enjoying extended Christmas or playing volleyball on a beach during summer"; how does excessive enquiries burden the system; timeline to sponsor parents and grandparents and lots more. NDVO is one of the efficient and the strategies adopted by the NDVO.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4965358&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3&Language=E#Int-3743789
Hope you like it.
Regards.
Mitali
Here is the summary, I hope i did not miss any important point
New Delhi is Canada's largest visa office, with over 150 staff. We are responsible for delivery of the immigration program in India, Nepal and Bhutan. A satellite office in Chandigarh processes temporary residence applications, primarily from the states of Punjab and Haryana.
On an average business day, we render decisions on over 500 applications —more than one per minute.
We cross-train officers and inject resources from the immigrant units in order to remain current on all temporary resident business lines at all times. Doing so reduces the non-value added work generated by delays, and over time preserves the maximum amount of resources for immigrant processing.
t does mean, however, that our unit, which processes skilled workers and investors, will have 13 or so officers in the winter, but only six in the summer.
In 2010 we finalized 80% of all these cases within 10 months. Given the volume of intake under the first set of ministerial instructions, we will not be able to further reduce the inventory of older cases this year.
New Delhi issued over 11,900 skilled worker visas in 2010, an increase from about 8,300 in 2009.
When that workload spikes, how do you manage that? What happens to files, maybe on a permanent resident, that are sitting on someone's desk? Do the same people who look at permanent residents look at the spike in visitor visas?
Yes. Officers in Delhi have a main duty and a back-up duty. All the officers are cross-trained, so we can move resources on a daily and weekly basis into the temporary resident unit to make sure we are always current on our temporary resident/visiting processing times. It's our conviction that in the end that preserves more resources for the permanent resident processing because it keeps us as efficient as possible. Our efficiencies deteriorate a lot if our visitor visa processing times go beyond three or four days, and your offices would certainly hear about it quite quickly.
So yes, it is the same people, and during the summer we mainly manage with our large skilled worker program. That's where resources go during the summer and the spring to help our temporary resident unit.
Our family class unit stays more or less the same size, because we also have a marriage season in India, and they also get busiest in the spring and summer with the new applications coming in.
