Theoretically, I agree with you, except that if you have a very large number of applicants, unless you have no target or no level established.... I'll give you an example. In the economic class, they say the level is from 132,000 to 148,000. There were actually 156,000 accepted. The number of applicants who are still waiting is 582,000 and it takes 57 months. Now, if you brought that down to two years, I would think it would mean—and I'm sure there's not a direct relation—that you'd probably be up over 300,000 acceptances. So the faster you deal with them, the more acceptances you're going to have.
On June 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.