- Mr. Jain was recently featured in the Report of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, “In Demand Yet Unprocessed: Endemic Immigration Backlogs, December 2023, 44th Parliament, 1st Session:
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According to Ravi Jain… the number of applications for the TR to PR pathway was not properly capped and ‘resulted in more applications than intended.
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Ravi Jain testified that members of CILA received emails from the New Delhi office stating that any messages sent to them that were not transmitted via the web form would be deleted.
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Ravi Jain reported that, despite the departmental workers being described as part of Canada’s ‘critical infrastructure’ by Public Safety Canada, there were ‘extended periods of time’ where 80% of IRCC’s staff were unable to work.
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Ravi Jain explained that the paralysis of the workforce had severe impacts on IRCC’s backlog, and in turn affected Canada’s ability to respond to humanitarian crises, to reunite families and [its] competitiveness in terms of our economy.
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Ravi Jain indicated that CILA [members] had been ‘excluded altogether from the new digital platforms developed by IRCC, with the excuse that they needed to be rolled out quickly.
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