Chair, the processing times from Sri Lanka, especially for spouses and families, FC1 and FC2, which are parental and spousal applications, take anywhere from two to three years for spouses and anywhere from six to ten years for other family class applicants. The people are asked to go back and do secondary enhanced background checks, and then more and more background checks.
I brought this to the attention of the minister a couple of times. She had promised to take a look at it. Unfortunately, that has not happened. Therefore, because of the length of time it has taken, especially in that part of the world and especially with the trouble that is happening over there and not getting clear answers from the department, I put this forward for us to hear from officials.