Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Once the file gets to the case management branch in our unit that handles citizenship cases, staff have been instructed to treat these as a top priority, which we are currently doing. A case summary is prepared and it is reviewed by the analyst, the director of legisl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In most of the cases we're seeing, people have come to Canada as infants and have been here all their lives. Those are very obviously the types of people we want to help. During review of the cases, the mechanism of subsection 5(4) has always been available as a tool to alleviat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not all of them were, but the majority of them were.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They've been here most of their lives or they came in as children, if not as infants, because they were born across the border. They came in as children, but there have been a few others.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Typically, we do fewer than ten a year. Last year we did ten, and six of those were people who fall into the category of people we're talking about today. They had been erroneously admitted at some point in time with landed immigrant documents stating that this was Canadian first

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, sorry. Thanks for reminding me, Mark. There is one other group of cases for which we have been using this provision since 2001, as well, I believe, or 2002. These are the people who are adopted by Canadian citizens residing abroad. This is a temporary measure. We're using

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Normally, the three departments would be our department--to check with Immigration, to ensure that they're landed or permanent residents. In this case, we know that they're not permanent—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be Immigration, normally, RCMP and CSIS—exactly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends on the case. We've had some back within a week, and the police have taken—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you talking about a regular grant process? Because we are getting expedited—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The CSIS things are going as per usual, and it doesn't normally take very long. With the RCMP, too, if there's no problem, the information goes—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have asked the RCMP to help us fast-track fingerprints.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.