PACP - Q-1438 IRCC Response - December 5, 2023
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Question no.
Q-1438
By
Mr. Redekopp (Saskatoon West)
Date
April 24, 2023
Marie-France Lalonde, M.P.
Question
With regard to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and applications to the temporary resident to permanent resident pathway during the program's dates of May 6 to November 5, 2021, broken down by province and territory: (a) how many applications (i) were received, (ii) have been completed, (iii) were approved, (iv) have been refused, (v) are currently outstanding; (b) how many agents are working on the program; (c) on an average weekday, how many processing agents were working at the Whitehorse, Yukon, IRCC office on these files during this time; and (d) what was the budget for processing the applications?
Reply
Insofar as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is concerned:
a) Please refer to Annex A.
b) The TR-PR pathway teams were created in the spring of 2021 and the number of employees assigned to this program fluctuated throughout the period.
By November 2021, 73 agents from teams across Canada were assigned to these files.
Number of processing staff broken down by province and month
| Province | May | June | July | August | September | October | November |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BC | n/a | n/a | 12 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 |
| AB | 4 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 13 |
| SK | n/a | n/a | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| MB | n/a | n/a | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
| ON | n/a | n/a | 3 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 22 |
| QC | n/a | n/a | 6 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 35 | 68 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
c) There were no employees working physically from the Whitehorse IRCC office dedicated to processing TR to PR applications between May-November 2021.
While no employees were physically working from the Whitehorse office during this period, IRCC leveraged a work sharing model between in-Canada offices to process these applications. The Whitehorse location in the Global Case Management System (GCMS) was used to keep all files in one virtual location and facilitates the remote processing of these files.
d) Funding for staffing and processing of applications for the temporary resident to permanent resident pathway during the program's dates of May 6 to November 5, 2021 is part of the overall budget in support of IRCC’s Immigration Levels Plan. The information as requested is
not systematically tracked at that level of detail. IRCC concluded that producing and validating a comprehensive response to this question would require a manual collection of information that is not possible in the time allotted and could lead to the disclosure of incomplete and misleading information.