Applied for Permy Residency after Feb 2008?
As you can see from my application timeline (right hand side of the main canada.myfi.org page) I applied before the rules changed and they introduced the 'occupations list' rules (see the list of occupations here) - the idea was to reduce the timescales for getting federal skilled workers residency by focusing on the skills that Canada needs. They've not released the Oct to Sept figures yet for how long it takes to process applications received after Feb 2008 yet as they need a whole year of processed data - currently the website at the CIC says:
Skilled Worker applications received after February 26, 2008 (Federal)
October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009
Current processing times for Federal Skilled Worker applications received after February 26, 2008 will be available with the next update, in January/February 2010. This will mark 12 months of processing upon which the processing times can be calculated.
It'll be interesting to see what the timescales look like when its released, and more importantly if the reduced processing window target has been achieved. Whilst this doesn't effect me (I'm already here!) I know of a few friends and people who have applied and are waiting to hear back from London - fingers crossed for them!
You may also want to take a look over at http://cicfsw2009.blogspot.com/ - this site belongs to someone who posted a comment on my blog posting "Bagels and Coffee" - they've got more useful info on their pages for the new process :-)
