People have been following each bit of Information on Web Site of Citizenship and Immigration Canada desperately for so many years now; curiously waiting to hear news on the fate of their requests they had filed for permanent residential permits under Canadian federal skilled worker scheme. Last decade was an event full period, commencing with the September 11 2001 WTC air assault and closing with wide spread and deep global credit crunch. These events and happenings rocked the globalized pattern and feeling of trade and business and migration was not an exception to this.

The rumbles of on coming slackness in migration pattern and intensity were being felt by the middle of the first decade of millennium as the governments of countries like United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand started pulling down curtains on their skills migration programs.

The tendency was in response to the nervousness in the financial and security perceptions which were being felt across most of Europe and America as a result of 2001 crisis. In those moments Canadian authorities still continued to accept requests for permanent residency under the federal skills migration scheme. But the script had been already been written and the flight path had been set. The gradual slow down of economic activities in the western world had  started to make impact on the economic performance and as result fears of drastic fall in industrial output were being allayed.

The fears did not have any major impact on the actual performance but the market sentiments grew weaker and as a result the investment scenario grew weaker. Canadian economy was no exception to this and as a result the priorities and aspirations of domestic market registered dramatical shift. The labor demand patterns were shifting and

Trade and Industrial allocation was shifting. The outcomes were obvious and a perceptible impact was felt in Canada Immigrationand Citizenship department.

As a result of the chaos the speed of picking up requests of applicants for PR slowed down considerably which led to creation of backlogs in huge numbers. The final knock out punch was delivered by the 2008 crisis which actually called for a complete overhaul of migration objectives. But the applicants were still in doldrums and continued visiting Citizenship and Immigration Canada Website only to find one particular flag which they had become quite familiar with, "In process". When they tried to get a tip on the current updates on processing times, they always confronted and extended processing time indicators (as per office of intake) and these had gone over 108 months (approx 9 years) in some cases.

In many cases people have been waiting to listen from Canadian authorities since 2004 and now in 2013 when almost 9 years have gone by, their conditions may have witnessed a drastic change altogether.  Things started to change in 2012 as minister decided to change Canada Immigration policy framework altogether. On of major decisions from his pen include complete interest free refund of pending 100000 files. The decision accompanied a draft for a new Canadian federal skills migration policy that is slotted to be launched on May 04, 2013. This policy will carry phenomenal changes in the fundamental working procedure and will impact millions of migration enthusiasts.

Although decision to return applications and refund money may shatter migration dreams of waiting people, but the brighter side is that people who can still cross the qualifying line with stipulation of 67 marks stand a chance to make it to this country. Canada Immigration and Citizenship Website is flowing with updates now.