Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. Right now, the fee for a citizenship application is $200 for an adult and $100 for a child. The actual cost to the Government of Canada to process the application for a grant of citizenship is based on our 2010-11 data of costing, which was $555 for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's an average cost. I have to say that our costing model takes the totality of the cost for processing an application, and it's the average cost of all applications that we process for citizenship.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The money is in our budget that Citizenship and Immigration has to process applications. The revenues generated from the fees go to the consolidated revenue fund of Canada. The CIC does not have access to these funds. They go to the consolidated revenue fund.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The last time we increased the citizenship application fee was in 1995.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I mentioned earlier, right now the fee for an adult is $200. The fee is composed of two elements: $100 for the processing of the application and $100 for the right of citizenship. The actual cost of processing an application based on our 2010-11 costing model, where we capture

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. The average cost I mentioned is the total cost of the process, so it includes the ceremonies, the processing of the application, the security screening, and the costs of all the processes we need to follow for the citizenship grant.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. As I mentioned earlier, the budget for CIC is appropriation based, which is pretty fixed in terms of capacity. Usually the budget we have to process citizenship applications allows the department to process 170,000 applications per year. That was in 2

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since we are here to discuss division 10, on citizenship, I have the comparison for citizenship, if it's of interest for you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For Australia, the fee is around $275. In New Zealand, it's $385, approximately. The fee in the United Kingdom is around $1,500. In the United States, it's approximately $675. Those are all in Canadian dollars.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the United Kingdom is $1,500.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me. I can tell you, based on the trends, that the cost went up, but I don't have that information for 1995.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Because we were supposed to talk about division 10 today, and not division 9, I don't have that information with me.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In order to answer your question, maybe I can explain to you the process we do when we review our fees. There are many factors we look at when we review fees. There's the country comparison, as I mentioned before. Usually we compare with the Five Country Conference countries, w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All the departments are required to report in their departmental performance report on a yearly basis. There is a schedule, a table, on the user fees, where we need to outline the total costs by business line and the total revenues that we're generating. This information is publi