Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, I believe my minister has already answered that question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. We're sending two officers on temporary duty for the period covered between June and September.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, the intention is to capture in the program citizens from all countries who are coming to Canada on a temporary basis. For example, visitors from the United Kingdom don't require visas if they're only visiting. They do require visas if they are studying or working. T

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The broad intention is to develop worldwide a series of visa application centres that would be private enterprises under contract with the department who would handle the taking of biometric data. I think we have something of the order of 20 or 25 of them around the world now. Th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When this program is fully implemented--and I want to stress, as the minister did, we're doing this in a phased way--to get into this country at some point in time, and I don't know what that time is, under a temporary arrangement you're going to require biometric data. Eventuall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I didn't say they'd need a visitor visa; I said we would need biometric information. Part of the difficulty, Mr. Chairman, is that there are significant program integrity and national security issues originating from people who are citizens of EU countries. We don't see any

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You catch me a bit unaware. I'm not quite sure of the gist of your question. I think we've tried to answer all of the questions put by the committee. Do you mean to update since then? If so, I don't have them with me, so I can't do that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, I would only point out that the intention is to establish... All right?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The intention is to establish the identity of an individual when they make their initial application abroad. The photos and fingerprints are sent to the Border Services Agency so that when an individual comes to Canada, we can check that their identity is truly the one they're cl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you Mr. Chairman. I would simply add that CIC is not the one taking the lead on this file. The department taking the lead is the Department of Public Safety. The funds being discussed here are only for the department. If my memory serves me well, the overall program did ac

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, we are insisting that all applications that have any possibility of involvement with the LTTE be referred for secondary review by either CBSA or by CSIS. Over the course of the last several months, we've made special arrangements with CSIS to have officers based in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, to supplement what the minister said, Nairobi is responsible for 19 countries of accreditation. In some cases, in order to get to a particular country you have to go through three airports. In some cases you cannot use the mail or courier services, because they don'

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, yes we do have estimates for supplementary costs. We also have the agreement of cabinet. If Parliament passes Bill C-291, the means to obtain supplementary funds have been provided for.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The minister is absolutely right, Mr. Chairman. Furthermore, we have established a system allowing individuals to apply for visas from outside the country before their arrival in British Columbia. We will have to ask our Immigration Services throughout the world to begin discus

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A lot of them are.