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    Posted: 21 Sep 2013 at 4:23pm
This is from Andrew Griffith's blog Multicultural Meanderings: Working Site on Citizenship and Multicultural Issues. He is the former Director General – Citizenship and Multiculturalism Branch, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and recently published Policy Arrogance or Innocent Bias about the recent policy and cultural changes at CIC.

Highlights include statistics on citizenship hearings and denials including:
  • During Q2 2012-2013 (1 July 2012 to 30 September 2012), 6015 of 11,688 (51.5%) of adult applicants were referred to a citizenship hearing. (page 6 & page10)
  • During Q2 2012-2013 (1 July 2012 to 30 September 2012), 2273 of 4269 applicants at citizenship hearings were denied. (page 11)
  • 20-30% of people do not show up for their citizenship hearings (page 11)
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/713744-citizenship-and-immigration-canada-management.html


Edited by eileen - 21 Sep 2013 at 4:43pm
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As if we need further proof...

Thanks for sharing this.
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Thanks for sharing this, interesting.. Didn't realize so many people fail tests.

I wonder if it's possible to get these quarter reports through ATIP, any ideas? Document looks like a typical ATIP response, but it has "confidential" headers? At the same time it was included in this book?




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Observations:

Non-approval for residency is merely around 6% of non-approved applications; ten times as many applicants were not approved due to failure to meet knowledge qualification, and four times as many not approved due to not meeting the language requirement.

Note that in contrast to the anomalous quarter in which # of applicants referred to a hearing was high, overall the number of referrals for hearing has been declining (attributed in this report to OB 407), and generally residency is the reason for a hearing for only around one in twenty applicants (5% or so).

While the number of applicants referred to a hearing has been declining, which again in this report is attributed to the implementation of OB 407, subsequent OBs have made changes which should further reduce the number of referrals for a hearing, especially since test no-shows will not (going forward) be referred for a hearing (this report notes that "many applicants are referred to a knowledge hearing without having completed the written knowledge test," which will not be the case going forward), and proof of language qualification is required in the application itself.

Bureaucracy is what bureaucracy does, or When in doubt, follow the instructions. Otherwise, follow the instructions.



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Originally posted by dpenabill dpenabill wrote:



Non-approval for residency is merely around 6% of non-approved applications; ten times as many applicants were not approved due to failure to meet knowledge qualification, and four times as many not approved due to not meeting the language requirement.

This is a good point and struck me as well. Thank you for pointing it out.
Originally posted by dpenabill dpenabill wrote:


Note that in contrast to the anomalous quarter in which # of applicants referred to a hearing was high, overall the number of referrals for hearing has been declining (attributed in this report to OB 407),
It is important to put this statement in context with the large downturn in the number of test administered and massive administrative slowdown associated with OB407, rather than an implied administrative efficiency.
On page 9:
Q1FY20112012 (04/1/2011-06/30/2011) 35,868  tests administered, 10741 hearing referrals=30%
Q2FY20122013 (07/1/2012-09/30/2012) 11,688  tests administered, 6015 hearing referrals=51.5%
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