Update: Changes to Canada Immigration - nupad.ca

• As of Sept. 1, the majority of Canadian immigration applications for
  permanent residence under the Federal Skilled Worker and Business Class
  immigration initiatives are to be entered via the new 'Simplified
  Appclaiton Process,' a Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) notice
  announced on July 12.
  
  Lengthy application lines at every Immigration Canadian Visa Office are
  causing processing time delays. The CIC has finally realized this delay
  and has installed the new streamlined procedure in an effort to hurry
  processing times.
  
  Instead of submitting the complicated set of forms and documents now
  mandated during initial application, the streamlined application
  procedure will mandate skilled employee and business class applicants
  to just present an amended basic Application form, the Use of
  Representative form, and government processing costs. Any additional
  documentation sent to the Immigration Canadian Visa Office will be sent
  back to the applicant until it is asked for.
  
  If the application is approved, processing costs save applications a
  place in the line. Applicants are not to get in touch with the
  Immigration Canadian Visa Office unless they wish to remove themselves
  from the procedure or have a mailing address change.
  
  Documentation and extra information mandates will stay the same as the
  previous system, but they will not be mandated until the file has
  arrived at the end of the line and is ready to be considered, around
  four months later.
  
  Official Notice: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/press/notice/notice-simple.html
  
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  30 Jul 2006, 08:14 Anonymous