What happened to the lessons learned from the Syrian refugee crisis?

[Sous02]

This government told us they had learned many lessons from the quick process of admitting the Syrian refugee's. They showed the world how fast they could be and we were promised a faster process. They play with our emotions and our lives.
I am a Canadian and should have the right to a logical speedy process. Once qualified as a sponsor, marriage genuine, and a valid criminal check what is the delay? How long does it really take to determine the three areas I mentioned? A few hours I suspect. And please do not tell me a 50 yr old mother of two with a long work record and successful life needs a security check.
I know many have waited longer and it is unacceptable.

 

[chhapa]

This government told us they had learned many lessons from the quick process of admitting the Syrian refugee's. They showed the world how fast they could be and we were promised a faster process. They play with our emotions and our lives.
I am a Canadian and should have the right to a logical speedy process. Once qualified as a sponsor, marriage genuine, and a valid criminal check what is the delay? How long does it really take to determine the three areas I mentioned? A few hours I suspect. And please do not tell me a 50 yr old mother of two with a long work record and successful life needs a security check.
I know many have waited longer and it is unacceptable.

ur response is genuine. spouse cases need to be speed up on priority basis

 

[profiler]

This government told us they had learned many lessons from the quick process of admitting the Syrian refugee's. They showed the world how fast they could be and we were promised a faster process. They play with our emotions and our lives.
I am a Canadian and should have the right to a logical speedy process. Once qualified as a sponsor, marriage genuine, and a valid criminal check what is the delay? How long does it really take to determine the three areas I mentioned? A few hours I suspect. And please do not tell me a 50 yr old mother of two with a long work record and successful life needs a security check.
I know many have waited longer and it is unacceptable.

I understand the frustration. I am involved in the process too. I feel for you.

There are many things required to complete the PR process. I know outside it seems easy enough and that we think it only takes a short time to complete. Unfortunately that isn't the case. Something I have learned recently is there is really only a few things that require extra patience, and that will routinely test that patience. Immigration is one of them.

That said, I think they might be putting the lessons learned from the batches of Syrians to work already. There is currently the Spousal Inventory Reduction program under way. The intention is to clear out the inventory that has been accumulated for inland spousal applications. Once the inventory has reached a more reasonable level, they plan to continue to use the new process to maintain lower inventory numbers. See: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/bulletins/2016/ob624.asp.

Being that we are in the inland stream, I watch cases around us. Some from just before us have AIP/DM and even two have landed! One case received the invitation for the landing interview before they even received their OWP!

With this in mind, I am sure they are using inlanders as a petri dish and whatever the result is, they will implement class-wide.

 

[just a square]

I feel you.
I'll speak only from my perspective (outland applicant), a person who's been in a long distance relationship for exactly half a year today.
Even though I don't agree with the opinion that it takes hours to determine whether the relationship is genuine (it's probably more complicated than just looking at pictures and chat logs), it is totally unacceptable for the process to take months and months, or even years.
The fact that many non visa-exempt applicants have hard time getting TRV to visit their spouse makes me furious. CIC questions the genuinity of their marriage and at the same time doesn't let the person in, to visit their loved one for a few weeks because of family ties. Cases where CIC makes mistakes (accepting outland applications as inland, for example) are also heart breaking. However, the processing times is probably the most frustrating part to deal with.
As somebody has mentioned before, maybe less damage would be caused if one or two false marriage slip through instead of putting hundreds (thuosands?) of families in this torture that lasts for months. It's people's lives CIC is dealing with. Canadians, leaving their lives behind to move to a foreign country until the application is processed. Or their spouses who might have hard time to live a normal life because they don't know when they'll get DM. People who started new family and are planning kids. Newlyweds spending their first months as married people without seeing their loved ones. And many other cases where people aren't living normal lives, compared to spouses who don't face this process.
CIC is putting them through a long, hard and lots of patience required process. Long distance relationships are never easy.
I wish there was a way to make it easier. Now I just keep waking up every morning wishing for the day to go faster until the time when the VO officer will pick up my file, comes.