RQ Timeline

Oath & Citizenship certificate received yesterday at Mississauga, after a 3year+ wait post test centre RQ. As Judge ended the ceremony asking us to be thankful to staff of CIC...I was thinking of different oddities in my case... 1. I believe mine was a 'quota RQ' entry (quota is my POV...!)2. no action on my file for over 3 years - at least from what I see in my ATIF docs

Hi,

vinuge wrote: Hi,   on quota rq...I was hypothesizing that my case would have been selected to fill some internal quota of rqs. I feel this way as there was no work on my file that I can see. It's like they dat on my file for three years and said ok, now it's three years let's send the oath letter. I'm sure some valid reason exists for my rq and sitting on my file for the years. But from my vantage point I don't see any... Hence my view that it's some sort of quota being filled.   As for the address change my case also I'd changed it online, and the agent confirmed it, and my profile showed new address. So don't know how this landed at my old address.

vinuge wrote: Greeny   your timeline looks closer to mine, you may want to call the call centre and ask if any mails were sent out to your old addresses! And given its over 3 years since your rq date you can ask for why the delay. Assume you've done the ATIF.

The link from the above announcement http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=872799 (1 Aug 14)  which was republished from http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=832329 (pub 2/14, with more data about the age of backlogged cases) suggests that there is now a backlog of "only" 295,000 citizenship applications as of the end of June 2014. 

Given that the last published statistics (end of year 2013) listed a backlog of 396,227 applications,  this means that more than 100,000 applications have been processed in the last 6 months. 

So this may be the "quota" Vinuge surmised, the result of the RQ Blitz that many have referenced, and of course is how they can begin to predict a reduction in the normal timeline that they have just published.

OTOH, the graph is particularly interesting.  The caption states that the differences in backlog of applications as of the end of June IS the direct result of a "$44m economic action plan to reduce processing wait times",  and of course momentum can only be increased with the "new decisionmaking model" that presumably is C-24.

Anyone heard anything about CIC dramatically increasing staffing over the past 6 months as a result of this infusion of $?  Because if they haven't increased staff, the only other explanation is that they are expediting all new applications in order to inflate/maintain these numbers. 

The backlog of "old" cases (greater than 19 months) incidentally, according to the February post at the end of 2013 was 116,000.  It would be most instructive to get an ATIP as to how many of these have now been cleared; or alternatively, how many of the 100K processed in the last 6 months were "young"...




Edited by sagafemina - 04 Aug 2014 at 7:36pm