A Closer Look at How IRCC’s Officer and Model Rules Advanced Analytics Triage Works
As IRCC ramps up to bring in advanced analytics to all their Lines of Business (LOBs), it is important to take a closer look at what the foundational model, the China TRV Application Process, looks like. Indeed, we know that this TRV model will be the TRV model for the rest of the world sometime […]
Three Belated Crystal Ball Predictions for Canadian Immigration in 2022
While March may seem for some a little late to be predicting a year’s events (given Q1 is nearing it’s end), I will take a contrarian position that is not. Right now is perhaps the perfect time to try and make a prediction. All the big picture pieces are out of the way. We know […]
Why If There’s No “N/A” Risk Flag on Your GCMS Notes, You May Have Been Risk Flagged
One of the more fascinating modules in Chinook is Module 5 – Indicator Management. Many of you who have received ATIPs for Officer’s GCMS notes or received Rule 9 Reasons from the Federal Court probably see this in your GCMS notes: But what if this is missing? Folks have yet to see any actual risk […]
Chinook is AI – IRCC’s Own Policy Playbook Tells Us Why
One of the big debates around Chinook is whether or not it is Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). IRCC’s position has been that Chinook is not AI because there is a human ultimately making decisions. In this piece, I will show how the engagement of a human in the loop is a red herring, but also how […]
The Play is Under Review: A Closer Look at IRCC’s Policy Playbook on Automated Decision Making (Pending Feature)
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be doing a series of shorter blog posts on IRCC’s Policy Playbook on Automated Support for Decision-making (2021 edition). The first one (hopefully released this week or by the weekend) will be about IRCC’s concerns that applicants are “gaming by claiming” and their preference for “objective evidence” for the […]
New Year, New Me – Gratitude + the Canadian Immigration Issue I’m Tackling in 2022
I have a tradition every year of listening to the same Death Cab for Cutie song, The New Year. “So this is the new year And I have no resolutions For self assigned penance For problems with easy solutions” The pursuit of ‘easy’ seems to be the antithesis of my current path. In 2021 (after […]
Why VESPA’s Internal Only Instructions are Exhibit “A” to Our Two-Tiered Temporary Resident System
Much like we knew very little about #Chinook until recently, we are now learning more about a March 2020 Program Delivery Instruction [PDI] (with a June 2021 update) on a decade-old IRCC initiative called #VESPA. VESPA has existed for a decade, but much of it’s existence has been behind relative closed doors. It was introduced […]
