University Health Network and University of Toronto

staff physician: In July, Dash was supposed to start as a staff physician at the University Health Network and teaching at the University of Toronto, but a backlog has put his new job on indefinite hold, according to Toronto Star. Across Canada, the backlog — said to be the result of Ottawa deployment of much needed resources on the new Express Entry system — has wreaked havoc on the lives of thousands of CEC applicants. With his work experience in Canada, the Cambridge-educated physician applied under the old Canadian Experience Class or CEC, which at the time took less than 12 months to process. Compounded with a four-month wait in obtaining a bridging visa to extend their stay and allow them to continue to work legally, some are forced to quit their jobs and return home while their applications are processed. I am not asking for special treatment, but I just find it very frustrating, said Dash, 39, who came in 2011 for a post-clinical fellowship at U of T. It’d be nice to have more transparency. The wait time is now at least 14 months. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.