Certain latest reports suggest that the concerned Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) minister has declared that come the close of 2013, and the national immigration system would be duly improved and made better. The new system would not be crippled with backlogs like before even as it would be quick, flexible, and receptive to the labor market. The CIC has proclaimed that during the next year, 2013, it will accept a maximum to 55,300 individuals under the Canadian Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) class.

Taken together with the earlier steps embarked upon, to appropriately supervise the backlog, the move signals that by the close of 2013 the country will be in a position to process fresh petitions as they come its way, via a swift system. The goal is to process the submissions inside just one year, in place of as many as 8 years, through the previous FSW program.

Apart from this, the CIC is keen to clear the FSW petitions received hitherto towards the close of 2014–3 years before the scheduled time. It would allow for the introduction of the system of Expression of Interest (EOI) to be introduced for the FSW, and probably other classes of economic immigration. The CIC is keen to have a superior and swift immigration system, which hires persons equipped with the perfect skills, to cater to the labor market requirements of Canada; fast-tracks the submissions of such people; and gets them busy with work within a time-frame of months, in place of several years.

The concerned immigration minister Jason Kenney further said that topmost priority of Ottawa continues to be the national economy and job creation, adding immigration backlogs are against the nation’s capability to draw the best and the brightest talents from across the globe. Thanks to the critical actions the government has taken to manage the backlog, the nation will at last be in a position to choose migrants, who cater to the specific requirements of the national labor market, in a superior manner. He continued that Immigration Canada will leave no stones unturned whatsoever to process the submissions of such petitioners in less than a year.

Kenney continued that by tackling the backlog to make way for a quicker, more flexible and speedy immigration system, the fresh entrants to the Maple Country will be in a position to take part in the economy comparatively more easily and quickly. He further said that immigration plays a critical role in the nation’s long-term success and prosperity. Via improving the nation’s economic immigration system, the administration may make certain that Ottawa remains duly competitive on the global stage.

It needs to be mentioned here that the overall volume of the FSW petitions has been a very old problem, as the number of submissions received unavoidably surpassed the room available inside the Immigration Levels Plan per annum. Consequently, the wait times in the program of the FSW were as much as 8 years.

Over the last couple of years, the CIC has taken strong steps to deal with the issue, such as these:

1. Under a given plan, the immigration body began to restrict the intake of the FSW petitions to priority vocations.
2. During 2010, the CIC introduced caps to the total of fresh submissions.
3. During June 2012, an act ended a sizable section of the remaining FSW petitions accepted prior to February 27, 2008.
4. During July 2012, Immigration Canada came-up with a temporary halt on the fresh FSW submissions, barring the applicants having a qualifying offer of employment, or those filing petitions, via the PhD class.

Taken together, the above given measures have significantly cut-down the total number of applicants waiting in the backlog for the FSW from 640,000 during 2008 to nearly 100,000 at the present, even with fresh submissions admitted since the Action Plan of 2008.