Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses. Thank you for all the work that you are doing to help people come here, especially the persecuted ones.
My first question is for both Mr. Allos and Mr. Thorne.
I'll continue with the line of some of the questions.
We've seen with the SIM, the special immigration measures, a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of red tape involved in some of these programs. We know the longer the delay it could cost lives, and it's a matter of life and death. In both of your experiences with your organizations, can you give us some of the bureaucratic hurdles you guys are facing and some solutions to those so that while the government is trying to address this horrific backlog in the meantime these things can be done to help speed up some of these special immigration measures and some of these programs on sponsorships?