There’s now concern that deliberate staffing cuts at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) may influence the processing occasions of circumstances.
The company confirmed to CityNews that it revealed plans to its workers to cut back its workforce by 3,300 positions.
The IRCC says it expects 80 per cent of the reductions will be made via lowering staffing commitments and its non permanent workforce, whereas the remaining 20 per cent will have an effect on what it calls “indeterminate employees.”
Rowan Fisher, the supervisor of the immigration division with the legislation agency Osuji and Smith, says processing occasions for everlasting residency and sponsorship may take two years.
And with these reductions to workers, she desires to know who these 20 per cent are to know the way it will additional influence processing and people employed.
“Are these people front-processing officers? Are there people who may talk on the phone with people about their issues with IRCC? Are these people who reply to web forums?” she stated.
“If they are people who are in that line of communication, then absolutely it will impact processing and may have a detrimental effect on those processing delays that we are suffering at the moment.”
Watch: Canada’s immigration division chopping roughly 3,300 jobs over 3 years
Fisher says it’s unclear how these cuts will influence circumstances simply but, nevertheless, she provides it’s not the time for the federal government to chop immigration workers when there’s a backlog within the system.
“It is a system and it is a process with multiple steps and multiple people involved,” she stated.
“If anyone is let go from IRCC from that 3,300 who are part of that chain of processing, not just that information officer but anyone involved in getting information to that information officer or giving that information to the deciding officer back to an applicant, that will absolutely impact the delays and processing times”
For everlasting residents, who’ve waited for years to acquire their PR standing, the prospect of ready longer than they should apply for citizenship isn’t probably the most encouraging information.
“It’s difficult for citizenship, many people are stuck,” one woman advised CityNews.
Whereas IRCC didn’t specify to CityNews which roles could be affected, it stated in an announcement the reductions will have an effect on each sector and each department throughout the company with all ranges — together with executives — impacted.
The company says its staffing ranges are being adjusted to replicate the decreased immigration ranges the federal authorities is shifting ahead with.
