Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. From what I've read, Bill C-50 is part of a three-pronged approach to dealing with the backlog. One of the prongs of this approach will be to put aside $109 million to immigration. Another aspect is to train officers—bring in new officers—to tackle t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me start this afternoon by thanking the standing committee for its invitation to the society to present our views on Bill C-50. My name is Imran Qayyum. I'm the vice-chair of the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants. I'm here today with my collea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's an excellent question. I think the first step is to go to the CSIC website and ensure that they are an authorized representative. The membership list was constructed specifically for that. It was an authentication tool that, from the beginning, we realized we had to make

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's in the chart that we put in the back of your binder. I believe it's $225 for the year. That provides global coverage. Our members are situated not only throughout Canada and the U.S. but overseas, in India and Pakistan, and their actions are also covered. So we had to negoti

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I add something?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Just to add to Mr. Ryan's comments, we at CSIC, from early days, adopted and have been continuing on a consumer empowerment and education process. In the very early days, we placed ads in many of the top source countries' national newspapers in the languages in which