Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was the director in headquarters at that time, and Mr. Frank was in Delhi doing the work. At that time, the government had reduced for a brief period the levels objective for parents to 6,000. Early in the calendar year, there was considerable public discussion of that and th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm afraid I don't recall; to my memory, we focused on the oldest inventory globally.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are two main mechanisms, or perhaps three. The first one is that of document verification by the Indian authorities, and these documents are sometimes fakes. The second tool, that is mostly used when the documentation is not verifiable or when the results are not clear, is

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It varies from category to category, of course, sir. With regard to parents and grandparents, for example, local staff in the local office have a great deal of experience with the types of fraud that tend to be used. When we have children in the upper end of the eligibility ra

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak. My name is David Manicom, and I am Program Manager of the New Delhi visa office, and Area Director for South Asia. I would like to provide a short overview emphasizing topics which I understand are