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The recent layoff of workers at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has caused significant delays in the processing of various immigration applications, affecting thousands of people inside and outside Canada. Many applicants are concerned about this situation because they fear that their applications will be terminated, among other inconveniences, and they do not know what is the best strategy to avoid it or how to solve it.
In this blog, I will give details of a valid and effective way that can help you with the excessive delay of your immigration process. Read with me to the end and discover the strategy we apply at Immiland. Let's get started.
Among the processes impacted are:
These delays not only affect obtaining temporary or permanent permits, but also impact key aspects of applicants' lives, such as:
In these circumstances, it is common to contact the government through online systems with the issuance of webforms, however, this type of communication has its disadvantages. Let's see.
Webforms or web forms are a useful tool for communication with IRCC and are often the only alternative that applicants are aware of, so in the midst of the plight they end up waiting for a response that in most cases never arrives or does not have the desired effect.
In short, sending webforms to IRCC when dealing with an excessive delay in your immigration process is usually not the best option. In fact, there is a more effective strategy than the traditional methods: contact IRCC with a formal letter. But how does this strategy work?
At Immiland Law, we have explored several strategies and after evaluating them we found that the most proactive and effective is to contact IRCC with a formal letter, even without having to go to Federal Court.
This formal letter to contact IRCC is a highly effective tool , and in our experience we have had many clients receive a decision in their proceeding within a month of sending it, thus avoiding having to immediately initiate a Mandamus action in Federal Court, an applicable and helpful strategy, but one that has its disadvantages.
A Mandamus is a legal remedy filed in the Federal Court of Canada when a government entity (in this case, IRCC) unreasonably delays a decision. This remedy forces the authority to make a decision on the immigration file, which is helpful to the applicant; however, it has disadvantages in that it is a complex, lengthy and costly process.
Before reaching the Mandamus instance, what we do at Immiland Law is to apply this valuable alternative approach. The formal letter works as follows:
If after the sending of this letter, IRCC still does not issue a response, then it is necessary to go to the only remaining instance, which would be to initiate a Mandamus recourse before the Federal Court of Canada.
While Mandamus is a more complex process, once it becomes clear that it is the remedy that will help you resolve the excessive delay, it is important that you bring your case with the advice of a certified professional. At Immiland Law, we can also represent you in this legal process to demand a decision on your file.
If you are experiencing excessive delays in your immigration process with IRCC, you can contract the IRCC contact letter service by following these steps:
We are consultants regulated by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants, and thanks to our experience we highly recommend this strategy, as it has proven to be a faster and more effective solution to deal with long IRCC wait times.
I hope this information will help you in your immigration process. Thank you very much for reading. See you in the next blog.
With love,
Immiland Law Professional Corporation
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