Mr. David Manicom at the Citizenship and Immigration Committee

On February 15th, 2011. See this statement in context.

February 15th, 2011 / 9:35 a.m.

Immigration Program Manager (New Delhi), Area Director (South Asia), Department of Citizenship and Immigration

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 the number was increased to, I believe, 18,000. So we had to meet that objective very quickly. We had a large inventory available in New Delhi. We sent large SWAT teams of officers to New Delhi to achieve that objective.

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