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Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, that's not what I said. I said there were two factors that affect, in this case--

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, regardless of how the case comes to our attention, whether it's the United Nations that ask us to look at it or whether it's a group in Canada that sponsors it, the law requires that visa officers make an independent assessment of whether or not the individual meets th

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Certainly we recognize that we need to process refugee applications as quickly as we can. There are really two factors that influence the length of time it takes to finalize a case. One is the relationship between the number of applications that come in and the number of applicat

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The numbers I cited are based on the cases processed from January to November 30, 2007. I believe these are more up-to-date figures than what's presently available on the website.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The website is updated periodically throughout the year. This is for the 11 months from January to November.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, certainly we recognize that refugees are not like other immigrants. We can't expect them to have all the documents that would normally be required to process an immigration application. Frankly, what's required is for the officer to believe that the person in fact ha

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In 2006, a total of 261 privately sponsored refugees and 92 UNHCR-referred government-assisted refugees from Iraq were resettled. That's 353, if my math is right.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have 2005 figures, I'm afraid. We could provide those to the committee.... Oh, we have those.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe the initial commitment was for 5,000, but I think a few more than that ultimately did come under that special program.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The response to the outflow of people from Kosovo was certainly quite an extraordinary step. In fact, these were people who didn't come through the regular program of arriving as permanent residents in Canada. They came only with temporary status. Many of them did later regulariz

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Canada gave that option to the people.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't remember the exact number, I'm afraid.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I would try to respond to that, Mr. Chair, by saying that we think both programs--the program of government-assisted refugees that we receive referrals for from the UNHCR and the privately sponsored program--are important, and they meet somewhat different needs. The UNH

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, there's one very important difference: the government is not spending federal settlement dollars in that first year after arrival to assist the refugees sponsored by communities, as those costs are being borne by the sponsors.

December 11th, 2007Committee meeting

Bruce Scoffield