The quota for general H&C is so small it would be hard to determine if there was an actual pause. Many appoints aren’t part of an online H&C applicant group. There is a significant backlog of cases who have received AIP and are waiting for PR. It looks like it may take years for the backlog of AIP holders to get PR so there is also likely a reluctance to keep issuing AIPs until some of the AIP holders get PR. The program is such a disaster and needs to be reformed. IRCC is going to get sued whether they attempt to reform the program or do nothing so attempting to make the program functional seems like the better option.
H&C Humanitarian Ground with/or Without Failed refugee claim
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The quota for general H&C is so small it would be hard to determine if there was an actual pause. Many appoints aren’t part of an online H&C applicant group. There is a significant backlog of cases who have received AIP and are waiting for PR. It looks like it may take years for the backlog of AIP holders to get PR so there is also likely a reluctance to keep issuing AIPs until some of the AIP holders get PR. The program is such a disaster and needs to be reformed. IRCC is going to get sued whether they attempt to reform the program or do nothing so attempting to make the program functional seems like the better option.
2026 H&C capacity probably isn’t “finished.” The nominal 1,100 target may well have already been reached, but IRCC has room to go toward 3,000, and it is still processing H&C cases.
Highly doubt IRCC is trying to get to the maximum range because they will already have to explain how they approved ~450k PRs and not 385k because they didn’t count their 1 time policy. Voters have been very clear that they want to keep new PRs at a reasonable level and reduce the amount of temporary residents and the Carney governent has clearly received the message based on all their statements. You also assume that if IRCC did go to the higher range of the PR target that general H&C would get the 3k and not the special programs. General H&C would likely only receive a fraction of 3k in the best case scenario if the quota was spread in the same allocation of the total H&C.
Agree but with the overall H&C quota decreasing every year there will still be a substantial backlog between AIP and PR. We are also seeing the courts and groups push back on the long processing times so the government may have no other option but to reform programs. Think everyone can agree that H&C needs to be reformed and that the government choosing to do nothing and hoping that many people will leave or are removed was unlikely to be a longterm sustainable plan. The courts were likely going to force them to make some drastic changes. If the government wants to maintain their PR levels there aren’t many options.
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