Citizenship and Immigration committee  IRCC won't process applications that are submitted by consultants in Canada who are not licensed or that aren't submitted from counsel.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The college, which was established in 2021, and the act that led to the establishment of that college are really clear on who can operate as a consultant in Canada and what criteria they need to meet. The college has a registry published on their website.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would also like to thank the witnesses for being here. Ms. Kingsley and Mr. McCrorie, some students who obtained a temporary resident permit for three years are still awaiting the outcome of their case review. Can you tell us why the Canada Border

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ms. Kingsley, the former minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, the Honourable Sean Fraser, told the committee on June 14, 2023, that he had set up a task force with senior managers in the department with a view to making the process more intelligible. Can you tell

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Yes, I certainly can. The task force was established immediately after being announced by the minister. It includes an IRCC assistant deputy minister, a Canada Border Services Agency assistant deputy minister, four directors general and some 30 analysts, by which I me

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. One of the most troubling aspects, Ms. Kingsley, that has come to light is the ability of fraudulent immigration consultants to exploit the current system of IRCC issuing study permits. When the deputy minister of IRCC appeared before the committee here

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead, Madam Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right now, in the processing of applications, if an officer has a doubt about the validity of a letter of acceptance, we do actually reach out directly to the DLI to ask them to either validate that letter of acceptance or invalidate it, so we do have an “ad hoc based on officer

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead, Ms. Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Currently that is based on officer review on an individual basis and not done automatically.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there currently is not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead, Ms. Kingsley.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are right now looking at sharing more information with designated learning institutions, and I believe we already have the authorities to do that. I don't think we need information-sharing agreements, necessarily. We do share information with them on an ad hoc basis when there

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead, Ms. Kingsley.