Significant Delay in Processing of Express Entry Applications at CIO Sydney due to eligibility factors. 

We, the undersigned, permanent residence applicants whose applications through EXPRESS ENTRY program have far passed the normal processing time, kindly draw the attention of the honourable Ahmed D. Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to the following:

1. Although the normal processing time of permanent residence applications in Canada for Express Entry is 6 months, for many of us this is over 12 months now. 

2. The response from IRCC to our enquiries about our applications is "eligibility is still under review". While we understand this is an essential stage of the process, we believe this may be done in a certain time-frame.

3. IRCC does not provide any time-frame for completing the eligibilty for files that require further REVIEW. 

4. We have have commitments, jobs, kids attending schools, family plans, etc that are on hold based on CIO Sydney final decision, our lives are on hold, we do not know if we are staying in our places of residents or if we are moving.

5. Some applicants had to redo the medical exam, WHY?  because the file was reopened just 1 or 2 months priror to the expiray date. We have jobs to resign and we need to give at least 60 days in some countries. They should rather extend our medicals rather than requesting a new one.

6. IRCC at the same time is able to process files that were submitted in 2019 whilst there are some people with parked files from June, July, August, Septmeber,October, November, and December 2018.

7. The delay in processing of our applications, without any clear reason and deadline, has not only negatively affected different aspects of our lives but also caused us emotional distress ourlive is really on pause.

We respectfully request:

1. To receive a clear response regarding our situation and our applications processing time.

2. To expedite our applications since our applications has already passed the posted processing time.We need your final decision no matter what it is. 

3. To receive the final decision from CIO Sydney. They should REOPEN the files of 2018 applicants and CLEAR IT. 

4. Communicate with the applicant in case there is a review required in their eligibilty & ask for the missing information, because we only get to know how our files are placed on hold by ordering GCMS notes. 

5. This is emotionally draining & depressing, the endless wait is killing us every week that goes without any update from CIO Sydney is killing, we have plans that are on pause based on their final decision. 

We hope the liberal government of Canada hear our voice and support our case.