It is now official. Canada will continue to process those Federal Skilled Worker applications submitted prior to February 27, 2008.
Over 900 applicants under the Skilled Workers’ program sued Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Ottawa for violating their promise to process their applications in a timely fashion. The Federal court’s decision this week ordered the Minister and the federal government to continue processing those eligible for the program. The Minister still remains with the power to return applications of those applicants who are deemed not qualified.
CIC wanted to return all application caught in the backlog to reduce the backlog and open the space for other more recent applications based on the current immigration policies.
This is a setback for Ottawa who wanted to clear the backlog, but now cannot. The court has already ordered several applications to be finalized by October 14, 2012.
In this case, Canada did what is fair… in our opinion. We are very interested in what our readers have to say.
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is this true?
is it true? please let us know. I’ve been waiting since 2007.
Thank God. I have been waiting for 8 Long years. I could not even Imagine that a resposible country like Canada can even think of returning the old cases.