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

eileen wrote: #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.

Quite possible. There is this "Weekly ATI Report" on amber light releases that ATIP Dept circulates.  It  lists important upcoming releases. I ordered someone else's copy once.

"The amber light process is a heads up process to advise senior management of upcoming access to information releases that may attract media or political attention. The purpose of this report is to advise senior management of amber light emails that may be forwarded for their attention. Due to the complexity of these files, the volume of information and the need for consultations both inside and outside the Department, the planned release dates may change."

WTF, why did Calgary issue only 39 RQs, when Edmonton issued 175 ?!?  Calgary has to be processing way more cases than Edmonton, 1.5 to 2 more probably, yet issues 4 times less RQs.

Something's not right here.

coldnomad wrote: WTF, why did Calgary issue only 39 RQs, when Edmonton issued 175 ?!?  Calgary has to be processing way more cases than Edmonton, 1.5 to 2 more probably, yet issues 4 times less RQs. Something's not right here.

akella wrote: [QUOTE=eileen] Someone please look at the data - any ideas on what period might have been used for this statement?

I estimated on my website (with some caveats) a 12.5% RQ rate on based on the only previous official-ish RQ number (CIC quotes approx. 11,000 issued between 7 may 2012 and 28 sept 2012 in Nick Keung's January Toronto Star article). I extrapolated the daily RQ rate to find an approximate yearly RQ rate and then divided that by number of applications in 2011 (on the assumption that RQs from the summer of 2012 would be in response to 2011 applications.) Pretty rough estimate.

This release counts 13,553 RQs (local & sydney) during that period.

Not to say that Kenney is cruising my blog for misinformation, but perhaps others extrapolated similar info as well.

Got some updates to do.

kisunja85 wrote: I was wondering that, too. A clever way to clear the local backlog, maybe?

That's a possibility, although I'm not sure if pending RQs are considered "out of backlog". In fact, aren't RQs required to be reviewed by a judge, whereas routine applications are not reviewed by the judge? That's my understanding.

It's more like a lack of standards across offices. What's stopping an overzealous officer or two from having way too many suspicions?

I can't think of anything else that could legitimately cause such a discrepancy. I doubt immigrant population profiles are very different between the two cities.

One other note, looking at CPC-S RQs issued in very recent months, there's no clear trend of diminishing RQs. So the theories that OB-407 procedures have been overhauled since summer 2012 are probably not true. :(