CPC-S and Local Office RQ stats: 22.1% *UPDATED*

The following is another document obtained via Access to Information Request.

• Weekly RQ data covering 2012/05/06 to 2013/04/27
• More detailed data is available in original document and converted dataset linked below.
• Total RQs: 22.1% (almost 2x higher than Minister's claim of 12% here)
• CPC-S sent only 150k files to local offices during this period
  

RQ Total (both CPC-S and Local Office RQs)
Period: 2012/05/06 - 2013/04/27
	#	%
Applications Referred to Local Office	150,236
RQ Issued by CPC-S	27,584	18.4%
RQ Issued by Local Office	5,552	3.7%*
Total RQs	33,136	22.1%

* "Applications Referred to Local Office" was used as a base to calculate this percentage.

RQ Issued by CPC-S and File Referred by CPC-S
	Total
RQ Issued by CPC-S	27,584
Applications Referred to Local Office	150,236
RQ Issuance Rate	18.4%
RQs Issued by Local Office
	Total
BC Itinerant Services	201
Calgary CIC	39
Edmonton CIC	175
Etobicoke CIC	3
Fredericton CIC	4
Hamilton CIC	289
Kitchener CIC	286
Mississauga CIC	1,277
Moncton CIC	245
Montreal Citizenship	7
Niagara Falls CIC	119
Ottawa CIC	223
Query Response Centre	6
Scarborough Citizenship Operations	317
Scarborough Immigration Operations	7
St. Clair CIC	933
St. John's CIC	8
Surrey CIC	102
Toronto Reviews & Interventions CIC	90
Vancouver Citizenship	810
Windsor CIC	201
Winnipeg CIC	210
Total	5,552

Original document:

http://rapidshare.com/files/3357580010/RQ_Stats_Apr2013.pdf

Dataset in Excel form (converted from pdf - please, refer to the original if in doubt):

http://rapidshare.com/files/2743762279/RQ_Stats_Apr2013.xlsx

*** JUNE 3 UPDATE ***

Just got my hands on another ATI document - this time coming from CBSA.

The following is the number of requests for ICES Traveler History reports (that one would expect to correlate closely with the number of RQs issued by CIC)

Month / Calendar year	2011	2012	2013
January	258	507	833
February	262	533	900
March	330	620	953
April	302	591	1192
May	263	202
June	291	1100
July	307	1612
August	362	1614
September	356	1603
October	363	1159
November	386	900
December	288	673
	3768	11114	3878

 

Indeed there seems to be a policy change in October/November. However, the "new normal" is still 2x-3x times higher than it was before.

Original:

http://rapidshare.com/files/1277112238/CBSA_Number_of_ICES_Requests.pdf

Edited by akella - 03 Jun 2013 at 11:17pm

This is like building skyscrapers without having the necessary infrastructure. We need good policy makers. Operation Bulletins should not be written impulsively based on few fraudsters.

I don't know how you do it, Akella! Thank you.  Fascinating.

Interesting that Mississauga issued 1277 RQ's for the whole period while Montreal just 7.

#1- Akella, un grand merci à toi! C'est incroyable!
#2- I find it the timing of Kenney's interview with SA Generation Next and his tweets regarding RQs to be suspect. In the interview and tweets he "released" data on RQs and the citizenship delay, a subject that he has said next to nothing about previously.

Let's review the info he released:
*"Our goal is 12 month service standard" for citizenship application processing. Twitter 22/05/2013.
*"Current time is 23 months" Twitter 22/05/2013 and SA Generation Next 22/05/2013
*"12 per cent citizenship applicants are being given a residence questionnaire" SA Generation Next 22/05/2013

This was mere hours before the processing timeline was revised to 25 months. Days before the release showing ACTUAL RQ numbers for the first time. And there is still no official service standard for citizenship processing.

He also assured us that the RQ is not targeting any communities specifically. But considering how his other assertions have panned out, I'm not sure I would accept that as the whole truth.

He is controlling the message and directing the conversation so people talk about the 12 month processing "goal", rather than the 25 month (or longer) processing reality.

Thank you Akella for lending actual facts to this conversation, unlike MP Kenney.


Edited by eileen - 30 May 2013 at 8:27pm