Along with automated triaging Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) has additionally launched software program in order that officers can bulk course of purposes. The software program software is called Chinook.
In keeping with an affidavit that IRCC filed in Federal Courtroom, Chinook is a standalone software that streamlines administrative steps. Applicant data is extracted from their purposes and offered in a spreadsheet. Visa officers are assigned a workload of purposes by way of Chinook. They’re able to see a number of purposes at a time on a single spreadsheet. This enables them to overview the contents of a number of purposes on a single display, and permits them to finish administrative steps by way of batch processes. It additionally permits visa officers to create “threat indicators” and “native phrase flags” in order that officers can determine attainable purposes within the processing queue of concern or precedence.
In keeping with the Federal Courtroom affidavit, when visa officers enter Chinook a message pops up which says, amongst different issues, “The Chinook Consumer Interface permits you to view a number of purposes for overview and preliminary evaluation. It doesn’t exchange reviewing paperwork.. and/or reviewing different data… The refusal notes generator is supposed to help with basic bona fide refusals. If the notes don’t mirror your refusal causes, please write a person be aware.”
Jurisprudence
In Haghshenas v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 464, Justice Brown acknowledged that whether or not a choice is affordable or unreasonable will decide whether it is upheld or put aside, whether or not or not synthetic intelligence was used.
In Mehrara v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2024 FC 1554, Justice Battista affirmed that the usage of Chinook shouldn’t be a breach of procedural equity.
Manuals
The Chinook consumer information might be discovered right here:
One other model particular to Modules 1 and a couple of might be discovered right here: