Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be an excellent idea if they could come up with a different program so they can come, with a group of five doing their due diligence sponsorship, and they can fulfill the application of the sponsorship in one year, which is mostly what they're doing. If they're able to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, they have to add more human resources. More staff need to be hired who can do the job. Secondly, they have to modernize the application system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I recommend that to the government. When any visa official is doing an interview, they have to see the applicant's ethnicity and background, and they have to consider that during the interview.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not much. I think that every day we are getting more backlogs. I'll give you one example. I submitted one sponsorship application this year, and even up to October, I did not get an acknowledgement of the application. The refugee continues to ask us, “Did you submit the applica

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all they need to get the documentation as to how many people are here, and priority should be given to those people who have skills or talent in this country. Then they can make—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My recommendation to our visa office, especially in Singapore but in other countries as well, is that for PSRs they have to do independent studies for the refugees. Most of the time, they are getting consultations from the UNHCR, which is I think unfair to the refugees, because t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That would be helpful, especially when we apply for judicial review or anything else to appeal the case. That would help a lot to justify that either the refugee has a problem or the interpreter has a problem or the visa officer gave a wrong decision.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the last few years, we've had several refusal cases from the Singapore office, especially people from Christian minorities. We have appealed several times to IRCC, and I think IRCC is looking at that. It is a little bit better, but still, it needs to be focused more on these

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. There is one application that was refused recently from IRCC. The guy was a target of the extremists in Karachi, and he went to the hospital. He went through the crisis, but unfortunately because of the circumstances, it did not allow him to give all the evidence, a police r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you so much. Yes, there is a problem with the UNHCR especially, as I mentioned here. When religious minorities apply for immigration through UNHCR to seek asylum in Canada, they are less educated and they cannot present their cases properly. UNHCR wants to have 100% of the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to present our concerns as a sponsorship agreement holder with the private sponsorship program. International Christian Voice, or ICV, is a registered, non-profit charitable human rights organization. Our core work is to ass

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before I start to give my speech, I would like to thank the Canadian government for accepting Asia Bibi, the woman who was imprisoned for nine years in Pakistan and was released and came to Canada. It is a great day for us as a Pakistani community that she