Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, I'm first going to provide you with an overview of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office.
The office was established through Advantage Canada. It is located in the offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada. We always develop programs and policies designed to support people who want to start a settlement process before leaving their country of origin. We started with a pilot project together with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, involving foreign partners and targeted at certain missions, as you mentioned. This is a roll-out process, if I may use the term, which works in stages.
As funding becomes available, we improve our services. We started with China, the Philippines and India because the missions in New Delhi, Beijing and Manilla are the busiest ones. That's where the volumes are the highest. In the coming months, a fourth office will open in London to cover the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and the Gulf countries. We will then have to start planning the next stages for the establishment of other offices.