Citizenship and Immigration committee  All the 5,850 applications for permanent residence have been processed.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Of that total, 3,241 applications have been approved. I am talking about the number of people and not the number of cases.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There were 1,596 refused applications. As we said earlier, 1,013 people withdrew their application.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not by category. The main reasons are usually marriages or relationships of convenience, and medical, security or criminal reasons. We have not divided them up into categories. In any case, we don't have the figures with us.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are talking about fees for processing an application. Therefore, whether we are talking about the applications from Haiti we are currently discussing, or about applications in all categories we receive from around the world, there is no refund provided for application process

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's not true. There are still 12 people awaiting processing, 4 of them for security reasons, and the others for medical reasons.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Some of them were refused. We will provide you with the details.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have data on the 1,700 applications, but I do have data on all the applications that have been processed since the earthquake, with regard to this client class. We have examined 4,525 cases, of which 2,229 were approved, 1,404 were refused, and 892 were closed, as Ms. Des

Human Resources committee  There are 1,300 who chose citizenship. As far as immigration is concerned, it is not necessarily a choice. A number of people do not have a choice in part because they are permanent residents and can therefore not transfer citizenship. There are also certain countries that do not

Human Resources committee  Under the immigration process, the right of appeal is automatic for all family class cases, including these cases.

Human Resources committee  It would probably take much less than a year. The sponsorship process currently takes about 40 days. After the submission of the application it would go. The first priority is for minor children and spouses.

Human Resources committee  There are two or three benefits to going through the immigration process.

Human Resources committee  The potential benefits include the possibility of passing on citizenship to the second generation.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  There is no waiting period, as my colleague was saying. It is an issue of time because many requests are received, but there are no... When you say they have difficulty, I am not sure—