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Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good morning, everyone. I appreciate the invitation to be here. I'm going to cover three topics. I'm going to give a few introductory comments. I'm going to summarize some key numbers very briefly, handle questions, and then I'm just going to express a few cautions. My trainin

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have any numbers for that one. That's probably going to come out of administrative sources as much as anything, if one kept good data on that, but I'm always worried about the administrative sources, because they have very special functions as to what they collect; when I

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know their marital status at birth.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, not on that one.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If we knew that, yes. If we knew the precise immigration history, marital status, all the things that we normally would see if we were doing a review of them, that would help with the number. But we don't have that from census data.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We don't have a marital history on any of these individuals.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. The only accurate number we would have, if we turned to administrative records, is the number of cases that are actually under review and on which some decision has been made, and that's a very limited number.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's one of the major cautions, I think. When I define a demographic group, in the written part I said that the actual counts would be if every one of them has actually filed for citizenship, and then we'd see what happened. But I don't know, and I don't know anyone who does kn

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. I defined three groups. One group is--

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct, I don't know. I don't know anyone who does know, either, by the way.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. I've been very clear on that. The number that would actually have problems is certainly less than the number I'm giving you.

March 26th, 2007Committee meeting

Dr. Barry Edmonston