Jenia,
i would like to congratulate you and other memebers of this forum for taking an initiative for the parental sponsorship applications.through this mail i want to give you some facts.
i had sent my application in early 2002 and my applicaton is as yet stuck in the embassy.but our problem is the same and the problem is the parents sponsorship is no more a priority for the canadian government and consequently they are continously reducing the intake of people in this category.in 2002 the intake was 22000,in 2003 it was 19000,in 2004 the target is between 10000-13000 and for 2005 the target intake is 5500-6800 people.so as you can see based on 2005 targets it will take between 10-20 yrs for a parental application to be approved(approx 25000 people file in this category every year).this is the reason they have stopped sending applications to the different consulates because they are already overloaded with unfinished applications.these may be some new facts for you guys but this is the direction in which CIC is going.when i applied the whole process was supposed to take 11-14 months but it has been slowing down ever since.
so unless the priorities change and the intake targets are not increased the situation is not going to change.
i would like to congratulate you and other memebers of this forum for taking an initiative for the parental sponsorship applications.through this mail i want to give you some facts.
i had sent my application in early 2002 and my applicaton is as yet stuck in the embassy.but our problem is the same and the problem is the parents sponsorship is no more a priority for the canadian government and consequently they are continously reducing the intake of people in this category.in 2002 the intake was 22000,in 2003 it was 19000,in 2004 the target is between 10000-13000 and for 2005 the target intake is 5500-6800 people.so as you can see based on 2005 targets it will take between 10-20 yrs for a parental application to be approved(approx 25000 people file in this category every year).this is the reason they have stopped sending applications to the different consulates because they are already overloaded with unfinished applications.these may be some new facts for you guys but this is the direction in which CIC is going.when i applied the whole process was supposed to take 11-14 months but it has been slowing down ever since.
so unless the priorities change and the intake targets are not increased the situation is not going to change.
