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Significant adjustments are being made in Canada's immigration service.

Significant adjustments were made last week by Canada's immigration department as a result of a study it recently commissioned.

Improving the efficiency of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's (IRCC) operations is the goal of the modifications.

Christiane Fox, the department's deputy minister at the moment, communicates with Marc Miller, the department's politician minister and the current immigration minister. Implementing the government's chosen mandate is the responsibility of the minister of immigration.

Yeates: The IRCC's organizational structure is flawed.

Yeates writes in his assessment, a copy of which CIC News has obtained, that "the current organizational model at IRCC is broken but is being held together by the hard work and dedication of staff."

"A series of steps need to be taken to realign the organizational structure, reform the governance system, implement stronger management systems, especially planning and reporting, and facilitate the development of a culture to better support the department's goals and objectives," he advises. "This includes consideration of an overall review of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and measures to better leverage the experience and expertise of diverse staff groups)."

IRCC changed its structure to a business-line model.

One of the modifications is that the department was recently reorganized into the following sectors:

  • Refugee and Asylum Seeker Resettlement
  • Passport and Citizenship
  • in charge of finances
  • Information Officer in Chief
  • Client Service, and Chief Information Officer
  • Communications