I don't know about that... there must be a reason why they waited till the last day to announce it.
That would be incredibly cruel, but also incredibly unlikely. Pandemic is going to end with widespread vaccination, it's a question of when. I still stand by my prediction that Canada will be in a good state by mid July. Not sure when they will start processing our applications though. With so many new CECs and new streams for inland applicants, what even is the motivation for approving outland applications if they can meet their yearly target using just inland applicants. It's disheartening but what are we supposed to do. There is no recourse for us, we can't complain anywhere, even social media campaigns or writing letters to ministers can't be that effective since it's a relatively small number of people. We are absolutely at the mercy of IRCC and the immigration minister.
I don't know, people have tweeted at the immigration minister and IRCC in the past and gotten responses. I don't have a twitter, but I would want to tweet at him and ask him to just confirm that FSWs will eventually come back.
It never made sense from a public health perspective. They could have relaxed this rule incrementally over the months, and they would have cleared the backlog with marginal impact on the virus spread. However, it makes sense from an economic (less competition in the labour market) and political (low public support for immigration when Canadians are facing so many restrictions) perspective, and maybe that's why they made it, who knows.
Lol just go to Marco Mendicino's twitter and look at the replies to any of his tweets. It's usually filled with different groups of people pleading him to make concessions to their group. I honestly don't think they play a role in his decision making process. But maybe once I hit the year mark I will create an account and start tweeting my sob story every day.
I think it does ( to a little extent though) caregivers have been crying for the longest of times, and well, their prayers have been answered.
A while ago it was speculated that separate program draws might continue, perhaps being held once a week (with less ITA's sent per round) and rotating each program. One week for FSW, one for CEC, one for FST and one for PNP.
Thanks for the optimism. I was getting depressed reading this thread. Consider how much energy and time I spent on learning French and increasing my scores.
