Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I believe that it takes on average three or four months. In some cases, it may take a bit longer, but it usually takes approximately three or four months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chairman, in response to that question, one of the reasons why we're going forward with a promotional campaign is to make people aware of needing to regularize or to find out about their citizenship status. In response to the question about the 400 cases, those are the cases

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I indicated, we have about 400 active files that we are looking at.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, it's the ones on hold. Excuse me.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, I mentioned that we have approximately 400 cases of active files on hand that we're looking at right now.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mark. As Mark indicated, my name is Clark Goodman. I am the acting director of citizenship and immigration program delivery, and also the registrar of Canadian citizenship. My responsibilities including overseeing the operational activities related to Canadian citizen

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No worries. As of May 1, we are managing an inventory of approximately 400 cases where people do not have citizenship. These cases are under review to see how they might be resolved and whether they merit a special grant of citizenship. The number is down somewhat from when the