Immigration has been a major driving force in front-loading Canada’s economy with continual growth, addressing labor shortages, and acting as a powerful glue in community development. Since a surge in permanent residency applications, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has been taking steps to enhance operations and speed up processing.
The Honorable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, announced that IRCC had met its objective of 147,000 permanent residence final decisions in the first quarter of 2022. Through these initiatives alone, Canada has welcomed nearly 108,000 new permanent citizens this year.
Not only that, but Canada has exceeded its citizenship projections for 2021–2022, with over 210,000 new Canadian citizens. This is happening as a result of modernization and a faster pace of services for people who want to become Canadian citizens.
It includes online exams, virtual citizenship ceremonies, and an online application tracker that allows users to receive file updates. These new developments have been made possible by IRCC’s continued commitment to improving client service.
IRCC has made over half a million determinations and welcomed over 405,000 new permanent residents in 2021 alone, the greatest number ever recorded in Canada’s history. There has been a continuing attempt to reduce application inventories that have grown because to the pandemic, with extra funding of $85 million from the 2021 Economic and Fiscal Update.
This money will be used to hire more processing staff, digitize applications, and reallocate labor throughout our global operations. These revisions will provide clients with practical and up-to-date information, including the amount of applications currently being handled and actual operational realities. Contact our immigration professionals at Elliotts Immigrations for more information about Canada immigration.