Before even sharing information with the Canada Border Services Agency, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration must take action. An alert must be placed on an individual's file.
For our part, we took steps to determine the whereabouts of these 800 individuals. We discovered that the majority of them had already filed another application for a different immigration status and that more than 50% of those applications had already been approved.
If measures had been taken initially, there might have been greater diligence, and we might have been able to prevent the approval of other immigration status applications, even before alerting the Canada Border Services Agency.