TEMPORARY WORK PERMITS PROCESSING SITUATION
Most provinces and territories provincial nominee programs have a permanent resident stream with a work permit component. The goal of these pilot programs is to attract and retain immigrants in smaller communities by testing innovative approaches to permanent immigration. The Federal government created and approved the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot program along with the Atlantic Immigration Pilot program as well.
Canada need these programs to be able to bounce back now that Canada is controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Jobs available before the pandemic are still waiting to be filled today. Canadian employers need these programs to attract and retain foreigners so that their businesses flourish again.
Any decision maker from a Visa Post who returned home to Canada to wait out the pandemic should be ordered back to work as soon as possible. The Federal government should authorize overtime to bring temporary work permit (TWP) processing times back to pre pandemic levels. The current levels of TWP processing times as of August 07th, 2020 are totally unacceptable.
Albania 15 weeks
Australia 16 weeks
Belgium 19 weeks
Bangladesh 15 weeks
China 17 weeks
France 20 weeks
Hungary 15 weeks
India 21 weeks
Morocco 28 weeks
Oman 15 weeks
Pakistan 15 weeks
Qatar 15 weeks
Poland 15 weeks
South Africa 22 weeks
UAE 41 weeks
USA 19 weeks
Please explain to me why any applicant would have to fly to another country to be able to submit their temporary work permit application. They can submit their TWP application from a country that could process their application within 2 – 4 weeks which is allowed by the immigration regulations? Will the employer be responsible for covering some of the applicant’s accommodation costs while processing their workers applications? If Canadian wants their economy to bounce back after COVID-19 they need to tell IRCC decision makers to work faster and stay longer in their offices to issue temporary work permits.
Roy Kellogg
Cvimmigration.com
