Couriers Charge: Guarantee Applications and Canadian Press

couriers charge: That raised concerns that the visas were going to those who could afford to pay the high fees or camp out for hours at the Mississauga, Ont., immigration office, according to Globe and Mail. High demand came in part from the fact the previous Conservative government closed the program entirely between 2011 and 2014 to bring down a massive backlog. The change comes after The Canadian Press first reported earlier this year that the previous first-come, first-serve process was seeing couriers charge more than 400 to guarantee applications would be at the top of the pile for the spots available in 2016. It re-opened in 2014 with a annual cap of 5,000 applications. Couriers had already started taking reservations to deliver 2017 applications, with fees ranging from 60 to 200, depending on whether someone wanted to guarantee their application was delivered first. Last year, 14,000 applications were received and the Liberals later raised the cap on the number of applications they would accept to 10,000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.