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Canada's
Immigration Targets for 2008
“How
long will it take for my Permanent Resident Visa
to
be issued?”
One of the most
common questions in the Canadian immigration
application process is,
“How long will it take for my Permanent Resident
Visa to be issued?”
The answers provided by Citizenship and
Immigration Canada (CIC) are widely variable and
based on historic information.
It is difficult
for CIC to provide future processing times due
to the annual variations in the number of
applications in every immigration category and
at each of the many overseas Canadian
Immigration Visa Offices.
What CIC does
provide as more concrete indicators of
application processing activity, is the annual
targets for each Canadian Visa Office. Included
in these targets are Economic and Non-Economic
sub-targets. The Economic category comprises
skilled workers, investor immigrants,
entrepreneurs, and provincially-selected
applicants. The Non-Economic category is made up
of spouses and dependants, parents and
grandparents, refugees and humanitarian cases.
The annual assignment of targets for each
Canadian Immigration Visa Office is among the
most important annual decisions that CIC
undertakes.
In 2007, CIC
aims to welcome somewhere between 225,000 and
265,000 new Canadian Permanent Residents. Of
those, 66% will be economic immigrants, and will
33% be non-economic immigrants.
Highlights from the CIC 2007 targets by region
Africa/Middle East
Damascus will
continue to be the leader in the number of
Canadian Immigration Visas issued in the region
with 10,190, up three per cent from last year.
The most prominent increase in the region is at
the Rabat visa office, where the number of visas
issued in 2007 will be up by 46 per cent since
last year to 4,315. Rabat will have the highest
economic to non-economic ratio in the region at
3.71. Nairobi will be concentrating on
non-economic immigrants, issuing visas to 2,300
refugees, the largest number of any Canadian
visa office.
Asia/Pacific
Though the
strongest growers since 2006 will be Taipei and
Kuala Lumpur (at 33% and 17% respectively), New
Delhi remains the front-runner at 22,380 visas
to be issued. Next in line are Hong Kong and
Manila, Manila being the visa office in the
region where most applicants will take advantage
of provincially-sponsored and live-in caregiver
programs. Seoul and Taipei will have very strong
economic to non-economic ratios at 10.51 and
8.73 respectively.
Europe
The region with
the highest economic to non-economic ratio (at
4.12); London, Berlin, Paris, and Bucharest will
be the strongest concentrations of economic
immigrants with 7 or 8 economic visas issued for
every non-economic. Vienna will have the largest
growth in the region at 27 per cent, mainly due
to non-economic immigrants. Paris, second in the
number of visas to be issued after London, will
issue 9,000 visas under the economic
sub-category of provincially-sponsored
immigrants, mainly due to immigration to Quebec.
Americas
Far and away
the leader in this region, Buffalo, U.S.A. will
issue 36,075 Canadian Permanent Resident Visas
this year, 8,000 of which will be under the
economic sub-category of provincially-sponsored
programs. The Buffalo visa office's economic to
non-economic ratio will be 9.09. The targets for
Sao Paulo, Kingston, and Port of Spain will have
the largest increases at 44%, 38%, and 26%
respectively, Sao Paulo being the only one in
which the majority will be for economic
immigrants. Bogota will issue 1,550 refugee
visas to Canada.
Though the CIC
targets do not provide estimated waiting times
for visa applications to be processed, the
regional and global trends are useful indicators
of what Canadian Visa Offices around the world
are working with.
Source: Lexbase
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