Oh please stop this fear mongering. It’s because PNP/ CEC are mostly INLAND / Canadian experience/ have less applications. No need to allocate additional resources at the airport border control to process outlanders, no need to enforce quarantine for everyone landing and also less pressure on outlanders to find jobs/ apartments when many businesses etc still remain closed. Like most countries, once the condition improves and they move to a new phase, businesses and travel open - that is when we will likely see COPR for outlanders.
The assumption that IRCC aren’t communicating their intentions because Canadians aren’t rude or direct is laughable. From GCMS notes we can see in many that final approval took place during lockdown and COPR is generated but not sent. Because Outlanders are assigned to the “Covid Pace” category. Considering the wording - Covid PACE (definition: speed/ rate). Implying that these applications are subject to a reduced application speed/ rate until the Covid situation improves.
IRCC would not waste resources finalising applications, transferring them to local offices so they are ‘ready to go’ once the green light comes. People are anxious enough without statements like that.
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