Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends. I'm not sure which statistic you're looking at. We can combine them together. We can say temporary residents, meaning visitors, and have separate statistics for students and separate statistics for temporary foreign workers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak. My name is Sidney Frank, and I am program manager of the visa office in New Delhi and area director for the South Asia region. I will talk today about challenges faced by visa offices in India in combatting fraud, and what we are doing about it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could comment on the super visa for parents. First of all, in my experience, the vast majority of parents who apply for visas to visit Canada do receive them. Parents visiting their children is not an area where we see a great deal of fraud. There's really an incentive for us to give a long multiple-entry visa to a parent.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you're asking Delhi, I'm saying we'll gladly give 10-year multiple-entry visas to parents. There's another aspect of the super visa that I think is really important. Upon arrival in Canada, parents will be able to receive permission to stay in Canada for two years. That's a very big change.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is Sid Frank in New Delhi. In terms of permanent-resident visas, we are assigned targets for the year that are based on the resources we have; our issuance of visas is not based on our intake for the year. So I would say that yes, we do have the resources to handle the visa targets that we're assigned by the international region of Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The majority of applications refused by us, especially those for temporary resident visas, involve fraud or false statements. As Ms. Zadravetz explained, we can refuse applications under section 40 of the act. We don't do that all the time, especially during the high season. However, it's true that people are going to make false statements to give us the impression that they're working at a certain place, although they aren't working, that they've completed certain studies that they haven't really done, or that they have money in a certain bank account, which in fact doesn't exist.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's great. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the committee for inviting me to speak. My name is Sidney Frank, and I am the program manager of the New Delhi visa office and area director for South Asia. I would like to provide a short overview, emphasizing topics that I understand are of most interest to the committee.