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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to speak before you today. I am going to repeat some of the things that we have already heard from the people who spoke before us. CAPIC is also very concerned about paragraph 117(9)(d) of the regulations, which excludes member
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee Then I'm going to move to spousal and common-law partners and conjugal partners, and the conditional permanent residency. We've also heard about situations where people who are very vulnerable may be remaining in situations of abuse because of the conditions of their permanent
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee I would just like to say that in an attempt to curb the problem of—
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee —abusive or non-genuine relationships, we have created—
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee All right, later on.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee Actually not if it was not disclosed. It is if the dependant was not medically examined.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee Disclosed but not medically examined.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's precisely the problem, and that's why CAPIC believes there should be a change to allow an immigration officer to look at the circumstances as to why that dependant was not examined, and make a decision. If there was no intent to defraud or to misrepresent—let's talk about
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, we do, and that's what we're saying. I mean, with those types of situations where after they arrive in Canada it is discovered that there was fraud, they could be written up and dealt with under the misrepresentation provisions.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee Unfortunately, the immigration appeal division has no jurisdiction over those cases because they are not members of the family class.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee Unless they are considered to be members of the family class, they cannot hear the cases, so we cannot argue humanitarian and compassionate grounds at the appeal division.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee You can't. The immigration appeal division has no jurisdiction.
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee I just wanted to add that I like the idea the professor had because, in fact, assisted relative class used to be a category under the previous immigration act, whereby having a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident sibling automatically gave the skilled worker 15 points, I thi
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici
Citizenship and Immigration committee We think the financial requirements are extremely high. The previous government changed the law, and the idea was when parents and grandparents arrive in Canada they become very expensive for the health system. I think that was the rationale, but unfortunately what happens, as we
October 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Vilma Filici