Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I would ask Warren Woods to address the question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll ask Monique Frison to speak for the department.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd be pleased to answer any technical questions related to the amendment. We do find it a little bit confusing the way it's worded, but we'd be prepared to answer any questions if there should be particular technical issues that need to be brought forward. We would like clarif

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not many countries make the distinction between a mass arrival and mass irregular arrivals. In Europe, most of them get these mass irregular arrivals, but not necessarily by sea. Many European countries also have some form of mandatory detention. For example, the U.K. is one that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Almost all EU countries have a safe country of origin procedure—it's called safe country of origin in most other countries. Australia and New Zealand also have such processes. In each case they operate a bit differently in terms of how countries are defined, but in most cases, th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The UNHCR indicates that you can have a designated country of origin process as long as it's based on verifiable and objective information. It does recognize that one consequence of designation can be expedited processing. In order to meet the criteria as outlined by the UNHCR,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, of course.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have the data with me to make that conclusion.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There was also a spike in the late nineties and that led to a backlog reduction strategy that was pursued by the board around 2002 to 2004. There have been various times where the flow of asylum claimants has been above the 25,000 mark.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Hello. I'm Jennifer Irish. I'm the director for asylum policy and programs at Citizenship and Immigration.