Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing before the committee.
My questions are for Dr. Kochhar from the immigration department.
This essentially started with a visitor visa. An individual was granted a visitor visa. They came to Canada. They applied for asylum.
I want to focus on the security screening process for a visitor visa. I understand that the security screening is trilateral—CSIS, CBSA and IRCC. I'll give you an example. I have lots of cases in my constituency office where an individual has applied for a visitor visa for a family member overseas, potentially from India, let's say, and they have worked in the army or in the local police force. That immigration process, that security screening, can take years. I have cases that have been stuck in limbo for three, four or five years now, just looking at that security screening.
What sorts of security screening are happening overseas? What information is requested? Are interviews conducted? With countries like India or Pakistan, potentially, from which I have a lot of constituents, what information is requested from those local governments? What does that co-operation look like?