CIC News has obtained an internal Immigration Memorandum outlining Canada’s target of welcome new citizens in 2022-2023.
The Immigration Bureau plans to process a total of 285,000 decisions and 300,000 new citizen applications by March 31, 2023. Review and then approve, reject or mark an incomplete application. The goal of citizenship means that 300,000 approved applicants must be sworn in person or virtually as Canadian citizens.
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This is significantly higher than the target for 2021-2022 and even surpassed the target for pre-pandemic in 2019-2020, when 253,000 citizen applications were processed.
2021-2022, the Immigration Bureau successfully accepted 217,000 new citizens. So far, Canada has welcomed 116,000 new citizens in 2022-2023 and is expected to achieve its goals. By comparison, in the same period in 2021, only 35,000 Canadians swore to become Canadian citizens.
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In March 2020, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Immigration Bureau was unable to process most applications. This is because the department can only process paper applications mailed to the Immigration Bureau. Since all in-person events were also cancelled, this means the Immigration Bureau is unable to interview candidates and take oaths at the citizenship ceremony.
These restrictions result in the complete digitalization of the citizenship application process for some applicants starting from November 2020. This has been expanded to all applicants over the age of 18. However, while this may simplify the process for new applicants, a large backlog of paper applications remains.
Immigration plans to continue to adopt its current first-in-first-out system for all applications, meaning older paper applications will also be processed while also making room for priority processing of a small number of digital applications to prevent backlogs.
2021 The Immigration Bureau aims to complete 5,000 digital applications this year out of 245,000 decisions. Since more applications are now digital, the number of digital applications being processed needs to increase in 2022-2023.
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in the subsequent report released in May, the processing time was 27 months. In addition to the backlog of paper applications, the increase in online applications is expected. As of June last year, there were 413,000 applications on the system list.
Immigration Bureau said it has taken measures to clear the backlog and process all 80% of new applications within the scope of service standards. To this end, more than 1,000 new employees have been hired and plans to expand access to the citizen application status tracker. In addition, minors under the age of 18 will be eligible to apply for citizenship online by the end of the year.
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