Canada’s immigration backlog rose in May. What’s behind it? – National | 24CA News
Canada’s immigration backlog rose for the month of May, with officers saying extra sorts of functions are being tallied even because the division will get higher at dealing with claims throughout the goal timeframes.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) informed Global News, nonetheless, that 64 per cent of their functions in May had been met inside service requirements — up from 60 per cent in April.
In April, there have been 809,000 immigration functions in backlog. The determine included non permanent resident functions, everlasting functions and citizenship grants. On June 16, the IRCC’s up to date knowledge revealed that the variety of backlogged functions had risen to 820,000.
In April, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser had advised that the PSAC strike that month might trigger disruptions within the IRCC’s operations. The strike ended inside a matter of weeks, and didn’t seem to trigger a rise within the backlog numbers for April.
The April backlog of 809,000 backlogs had been down from the 896,000 reported in March.
IRCC says that regardless of the slight month-over-month improve in May, the share of functions “within service standards” or these functions that had been on observe to be met inside goal timeframes, is bettering.
“Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)’s most recent update—published on June 16, 2023—shows that 64% of applications in our inventories are within service standards as of May 31, 2023, up from 60% in April. We continue to make progress towards our goal of reducing overall backlogs and processing 80% of new applications within service standards,” an IRCC spokesperson informed Global News.
As of May 31, 33 per cent of the 1.3 million non permanent resident functions had been being processed exterior service requirements whereas 27 per cent % of the 308,000 functions had been exterior service requirements. Of the 640,000 lively everlasting resident functions, 48 per cent had been exterior service requirements.
IRCC stated a part of the explanation for the rise in backlogs is extra functions being counted within the tally for final month.
“Starting this month, we have improved our monthly web tracking to include more applications, such as extensions on temporary residence and proof of citizenship. An increase in our total inventory numbers reflects these changes,” the spokesperson stated.
As of May 31, Canada has already welcomed 221,000 everlasting residents, which IRCC stated is on observe to attaining Canada’s 2023 goal of 465,000.
IRCC processed 417, 000 examine permits between January and May, up from 286,000 in the identical interval final 12 months. They additionally processed 696,000 permits between January and May, up from 363,000 in the identical interval in 2022.
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