Thank you, Chief.
Madam Chair, thank you for the member's question.
The files that DND, CAF and my team vet for IRCC are files where applicants apply to the SIM program. We didn't refer on our own files to IRCC as a department. We just make sure that the files submitted to immigration have a significant nexus to CAF—members who have served in Afghanistan with us. We have to establish that link, and the way we do that is by looking at the referrals. Sometimes the Afghan national will submit the names of people he worked for and we contact those individuals. We look at the contracts we had with all the Afghans.
We go through a whole bunch of databases to make sure there was a significant relationship with the CAF, after which we validate that and provide the answer to the Minister of Immigration.