Source:
http://www.immigration-law.com/Canada.html
AILA's teleconference with DOL on 07/24/2007 reflects as follows: [Courtesy of AILA]
Total balance: 28,300
RIR=Fewer than 1,000
TR=More than 27,300
Recruitment process has yet to be initiated=2,000
Recruitment process underway=More than 25,300
Obviously, these cases will have to be adjudicaed within the next two months. The positive side of this report is that most of the cases are currently undergoing the supervised recruitment process and some of these cases are likely to be adjudicated as soon as they receive the recruitment result report. We thank these officials for their hard work at the BECs despite their uncertain future for their employment. However, we urge the BEC leaders and officials to give a special consideration to the USCIS deadline for accepting concurrent I-140/I-485 cases by August 2007 only and unless such concurrent filing is completed, these foreign workers will have to suffer from a unknown tremendous delays before they could file I-485, work permit, and international travel. These people are those who have gone through a long and long process to reach the current stage. Acceleration of the backlog cases before August 17, 2007 is strongly urged.
Can we believe those numbers? ...
