Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to say the same thing as Ms. Chomyn.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the ways of doing that is getting the message out in the countries where we have our visa offices to let people know that these consultants will dupe them, and working with the local authorities to have these people arrested and prosecuted. We have been doing that in the P

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess it becomes more sophisticated as technology becomes more sophisticated. My previous posting was in China, where technology is extremely important. In China, they will blend photos so that individuals can sit language tests for applicants who don't have a high level of En

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but we're pretty good at it, I would like to say.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a constant training of officers. We have an anti-fraud unit. We're finding these things out. As soon as we find them, we tell the officers. We get the word out, and we tell them what to look for. It's a challenge, but it's in some ways an exciting challenge.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, but we look at the passport. All passports will have an English or Western transliteration. That's the name that we use. We always look at the passports. If somebody puts something on the application form and it doesn't match the passport, then we would have to verify that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not that I'm aware of.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the benefits of the new global case management system is that it has a very robust search engine. It will bring up similarities and rank them according to how close they are to what you have put in. It's extremely good at bringing up similar names. Nothing is 100% reliabl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm a bit puzzled by that because we do have to put a reason in the refusal letter. There are reasons tied to the legislation. They may not provide the kind of detail that some applicants would be hoping for. We simply don't have the resources to go into great detail about why an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do listen to what you have to say I can assure you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When an application comes in, we look at all the information that has been provided and then we compare that to our knowledge in terms of which applicants have remained in Canada previously. So you develop an expertise about a particular country, and you know that this type of ap

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Within India, the possibilities for accurate verifications vary considerably. There are some institutions, whether they're schools, public institutions, or private companies, where we can reliably go to them, we can make a call, we can send an e-mail, and we can do a verification

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly an exit policy would tell us more effectively who remained in the country and who didn't. If we had that information, that could better inform our decision-making, and it might enable us eventually, as we gained more knowledge about who's remained in the country and who

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In Delhi, I have—