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- Harvester: Why IRCC is Harvesting Your Submitted Application Documents With Their Latest Automation Tool
We have re-produced IRCC’s Harvester user guide from 2021 below (with additional redactions added to preserve passwords that were likely erroneously disclosed). Harvester Program Guide_Redacted 2_Redacted FINAL What is Harvester? Per page 5 of the PDF, it is an automation tool that downloads eDO … Read more »
- Delaying Decisions on Post-Graduate Work Permit Refusals Have Cruel Implications + Creates Backlogs
(First of all – Happy New Year! I might not be very happy in this post, so I’ll get it out of the way first). For the past month, we have been dealing with several inquiries from folks who have been refused Post-Graduate Work Permits (PGWPs). These have mostly been for small administrative issues su … Read more »
- Five AI-Decision Making Questions We Need Answers To From IRCC
In this short post, I will canvass five relatively urgent questions we need the collective answers to as we represent clients who are now being addressed by artificial-intelligence built decision-making systems. For clarity and to adopt IRCC’s status quo, I will not consider Chinook to be one of tho … Read more »
- How Much More Likely is an SDS Study Permit to Get Approved Than a Non-SDS Study Permit? – A Stats Look
One of the common questions we get asked by applicants (and indeed rumours fly around constantly on) is whether it makes sense to pursue IRCC’s Student Direct Stream or just go the regular route. I recently obtained data from an IRCC requests that helps contextualize this question a bit. I decided ( … Read more »