Canada to speed up spousal sponsorship application processing

Canada aims to process 6,000 spousal sponsorship applications per month between October and December 2020.

Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says the new commitment is designed to “find new ways to keep families together”.

In an announcement on September 24, it said it would speed up processing byIncreasing the number of spousal application decision-makers by two-thirds, Digitize paper applications so they can be processed by IRCC employees working remotely, Piloting new technology to conduct interviews with applicants remotely.

IRCC has increased the number of staff that will review spousal sponsorship applications by 66 per cent in order to reduce wait times and process applications more quickly.

In addition, IRCC is going to utilize new technology in a pilot to digitize paper applications. This is to allow IRCC employees working remotely and at various work settings to be able to quickly process applications.

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