Conservative Government: Immigration Applications

immigration applications: In 2008, the Conservative government made the controversial move to wipe out hundreds of thousands of skilled immigration applications in a budget bill. It then brought in ministerial instructions to limit eligibility criteria to specific occupations and cap the annual intake of applications, according to The Star. But the current average processing time for federal skilled workers filed under the new capping system in 2010 ranges from 16 months in Paris and Hong Kong to 32 months in Senegal and 31 months in Los Angeles and Five years after Ottawa launched a just-in-time immigration system, applicants to the federal skilled workers program face backlogs and long processing times. We expect new federal skilled worker applicants, including those with arranged employment, to receive a decision within six to 12 months, then Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said in 2008, heralding a new era of Canadian immigration that would respond quickly to labour market needs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.