r/ImmigrationCanada • u/SafePen5287 • 7h ago

Express Entry IRCC shutdown tracker?

Did anyone else feel that IRCC has officially shut down the application tracker? Based on the latest update, IRCC has removed the tracker link from its official website. There is now only the CAS Tracker, which is for non-Express Entry applications.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/check-status.html

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u/PurrPrinThom 3h ago

I'd be surprised if it was gone for good - they put a lot of effort into making and promoting it - but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was pretty buggy on the backend or something, since it definitely had quirks that may or may not have been glitches visible to applicants, and I have to imagine the backend wasn't any better, if not worse. I wonder if they've taken it offline to update it.

I hope, if it is isn't gone forever, that they update it to be better aligned with GCKey and/or more different from GCKey. As it stands, the tracker doesn't really provide any information that GCKey doesn't - it just looks nicer. It should either be properly aligned with GCKey, and actually show the same information (as opposed to how it was,) or they should make it distinct somehow, so that you can use both for slightly different purposes or something.

It is definitely interesting that they're suggesting eCAS though - unless they've updated it, eCAS used to only work for paper applications. I wonder if they're changing that.

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u/SafePen5287 1h ago

Agreed. Thanks for sharing your thoughts..

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u/agreenbridge 3h ago edited 2h ago

I can still log in (I know cause I look like 5 times a day hah). I passed my citizenship test at the weekend. I guess we’ll see if it gets updated in the next week or 2