Good news for all Canada citizenship applicants! The incumbent Canadian immigration minister has reportedly disclosed that Ottawa is busy working hard to reduce the processing delays for Canadian PR wait times, and bring the same to below than even 12 months or 1 year. Jason Kenney, the minister, added that the administration is committed to bring in shorter waiting time-frames for the Canadian residency candidates in the near future.

Govt. perturbed at ballooning immigration backlogs

Kenney also expressed his concerns over the fast-growing immigration backlogs for the Canadian Permanent Residency aspirants, of late, adding the same is excessively putting pressure on the country’s already overburdened immigration structure. The minister further said that the country’s immigration arrangement had a staggering 350,000 immigration visa petitions in the backlog by 2012 even as the same is close to 200% of the submissions filed since 2007.

Despite the fact that the candidates for PR are duly informed that their submissions will be processed inside a year—when they present their visa submissions–the waiting time-frame is as many as 4 years, in many of the cases. The same is thanks to the growing number of the petitioners sweating it out to get Canadian permanent residency, besides the stringent scrutiny procedure followed by the concerned visa & immigration authorities.

What to do?

Apparently, the situation demands reduction of the increased processing times for the aspirants. According to reports, Ottawa is planning to levy more charges on the aspirants keen to gain Canada residency. Presently, it will be premature to forecast when the wait times for the aspirants would be brought down, the said measure is likely to prove quite decisive in increasing the pace of the citizenship petition processing times.

Canadian government is busy working hard to reduce the PR application processing wait times, and bring the same to below than even 12 months in the near future.