Yes, that's true. Sometimes rehab applications are approved separately and sometimes it happens together at the end.
Thanks. At least we won't have false hopes now about our MP having any power to pressure the immigration officials to move on our application.
I dont get why they only have critical staff working. I think that's what everyone's wondering. Employees are supposedly working remotely. What am I missing?
Not only critical staff are working in the Canadian offices. Abroad is different since many Canadian employees have been sent home. For privacy reasons you can't just work on immigration files with personal information from your home computer or home internet. You may be able to do some work remotely. Some workers were also reasigned to work on other things that were more urgenr like CERB the beginning.
For privacy reasons and to ensure that one is following complete process, whether remotely or in office setting,..everything should be stopped?!
Did I say everything had been stopped. There was minimal processing for a while while alterations were made but immigration involves multiple agencies in Canada and abroad. We are in a global pandemic. Now that Canada is slowly increasing processing there are issues reaching other countries or processing in other countries due to VAC being closed and many embassies and consulates are closed or have skeleton staff. Covid and the economy are the priorities for all governments.
Any alterations or tailoring to processes to keep things moving and in addition deciding on priorities that affect people is the way forward.
People should be cautiously optimistic but there are stilll large hurdles eapecially in countries where VAC is closed or situations where an interview is necessary.. In some arras medicals may be tough to schedule as well as sputum culture. Depending on the situation in their home country medical offices may be closed ir limitting patients. Labs may be not doing TB tests if all their capacity is dedicated to covid. Assume some cases will have no issues where as other may run into some stumbling blocks. Think some spouses were so excited that they were interpreting the statement as all apouses will be approved soon versus there is an attempt to return processing time closer to the 1 year mark versus the timeframe versus having pricessing times continue to get longer. There is also no promise that spouses will qualify for TRVs to enter Canada while on their application is processed. Assume the approval process will allow the approved spouses to slowly trickle into Canada versus arriving in alrge numbers over a few months which is a much better plan for public health reasons.
Just keep in mind CICnews is funded by same organisation as this forum so is not anything to do with IRCC so generally should always try to post any official IRCC news item as well as anything from CICnews
Thank you for the insight.
Thank you, I didn't know that. Nice to see an official source; good fact checking! I subscribed to the IRCC newsroom now.
