IRCC is hiring 1,250 more employees?

IRCC is hiring 1,250 more employees?

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will hire up to 1,250 people, according to Canada’s Minister of Immigration Sean Fraser, and have them working there by this fall in order to reduce the growing backlog of applications and processing times.

According to Fraser on Wednesday, there is “unprecedented interest” in Canada as a destination for immigrants from all around the world.

Only four months have passed since Fraser announced actions on April 22 to alleviate the labour shortfall in Canada. These initiatives included:

• the restarting of Express Entry draws this year in July;
• a new temporary rule to permit recent foreign graduates with temporary status that is about to expire to remain in Canada longer;
• the continuation of a temporary public policy that lets foreign nationals visiting Canada to apply for employer-specific work permits without having to depart the country until the end of February 2019;
• Changes in policy are advantageous to people who filed for permanent residence last year using the temporary resident to permanent resident pathway.

In April, Fraser said, “Canada needs to look at every option because the economy is expanding faster than firms can hire new people. We need to have the skills and labour needed to support our growth.”

Applications backlog was still expanding in July

The backlog of applications at the IRCC increased to 2.62 million by mid-July from 2.39 million at the end of the first week of June, or almost a month earlier.

Fraser explained that the IRCC’s diminished capacity to handle applications during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many federal workers started working from home, is to blame for the mounting backlog of applications.

The number of applications from those seeking to immigrate to Canada has also significantly grown as a result of Ottawa’s reactions to the humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine.

To reduce processing times after receiving $85 million, more IRCC employees were hired.

These additional employees follow the $85 million in support Ottawa gave to the IRCC in its Economic and Fiscal Update 2021, money set aside to cut wait times and restore service levels to those prior to the outbreak.

The immigration minister claimed that the department had succeeded in doing so in a number of “critical areas,” including the 12-month service requirement for family reunification through spousal sponsorship and the six-month service requirement for the Express Entry permanent residence pathway.

He gave the processing of a record number of 406,025 new permanent residents to Canada by the IRCC last year as an illustration. By the end of 2022, the IRCC expects to have accepted 463,250 new permanent residents.

According to a statement from the IRCC, Canada has already welcomed nearly 275,000 new permanent residents in the first seven months of this year. Additionally, the number of work permits issued is rapidly increasing. The IRCC awarded little more than 199,000 work permits throughout the year.

Also, significantly more international students are receiving study visas.

According to the immigration service, “IRCC finalised nearly 560,000 study visa applications in 2021, breaking our previous record from 2019 by 31%.” “IRCC is already exceeding that figure in 2022, with over 360,000 study permits finalised between Jan. 1 and July 31, 2022, compared to around 306,000 finalised during the same period in 2021,” the report states.

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