Canada expanding processing capacity to expedite family reunion

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New office space and more employees are expected to reduce processing time for family class applications.

Canada is expanding the Case Processing Centre in Sydney, Nova Scotia in an effort to process more applications and reunite families faster.
IRCC will get new office space and be able to hire 62 additional employees, according to a media release. These new employees will primarily work on family class overseas applications. With these new resources, IRCC expects to process more applications and shorten the processing times that have been extended during the pandemic.
The Case Processing Centre in Sydney is currently limited to 30 per cent occupancy, due to coronavirus-related restrictions. The new office space will allow IRCC to increase this capacity, and it will allow more employees who are working remotely to return to the office.
Canada’s immigration minister, Marco Mendicino, said the increased capacity will help the department return to the one-year standard for spousal applications. He also tweeted about the new measures, nodding to the expected benefits that the new measures will have for families as well as Cape Breton residents.
The Sydney Case Processing Centre handles a number of different types of immigration applications. Under family class immigration they process applications for outland spousal, common-law, and conjugal sponsorship, dependent children, adopted children, and other relatives.

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