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Citizenship and Immigration committee Only in the family class category.
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's right. If you wish—
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Not by category. The main reasons are usually marriages or relationships of convenience, and medical, security or criminal reasons. We have not divided them up into categories. In any case, we don't have the figures with us.
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee You are talking about fees for processing an application. Therefore, whether we are talking about the applications from Haiti we are currently discussing, or about applications in all categories we receive from around the world, there is no refund provided for application processing.
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's not true. There are still 12 people awaiting processing, 4 of them for security reasons, and the others for medical reasons.
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee No. Some of them were refused. We will provide you with the details.
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee I don't have data on the 1,700 applications, but I do have data on all the applications that have been processed since the earthquake, with regard to this client class. We have examined 4,525 cases, of which 2,229 were approved, 1,404 were refused, and 892 were closed, as Ms. Deschênes has mentioned.
December 15th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Human Resources committee In the case of citizenship, there is recourse to the Federal Court.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Human Resources committee It would probably take much less than a year. The sponsorship process currently takes about 40 days. After the submission of the application it would go. The first priority is for minor children and spouses.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Human Resources committee There are 1,300 who chose citizenship. As far as immigration is concerned, it is not necessarily a choice. A number of people do not have a choice in part because they are permanent residents and can therefore not transfer citizenship. There are also certain countries that do not allow adoption in their country.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Human Resources committee There are two or three benefits to going through the immigration process.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Human Resources committee The potential benefits include the possibility of passing on citizenship to the second generation.
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Human Resources committee There is no waiting period, as my colleague was saying. It is an issue of time because many requests are received, but there are no... When you say they have difficulty, I am not sure—
December 14th, 2010Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert