Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't have exactly the type of research that Mr. St-Cyr was describing. That doesn't mean we're not analyzing the issues in order to try to resolve the question of wait times. Of course, the wait that is linked to a target is more related to the intake control. The fact that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We do have a centralized process, as you know.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is a service in Ottawa that is used by members of Parliament to ask for information on cases. They have access to the same information as Nairobi, actually. So the information you're getting from the ministerial services centrally in Ottawa is essentially the same as you wo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, I should point out that the company you refer to in India and China is the same that we are using in Nairobi.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mexico is a different one, but this is the same as in Delhi. They don't process cases, as you suggest. They essentially courier, the company that they are using—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Yes, we do have a formula, that each decision-maker makes an average of 860 decisions on permanent residents a year. That varies a lot from country to country. Nairobi is one place where each decision-maker makes fewer decisions, and for this reason we're providing more of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since late last fall, all the files for, let's say, priority family class cases are created in Canada. So whenever Nairobi starts to process them, the input of the cases has already been done. We've done that for every mission. Some will benefit more than others, and that's certa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think we can provide you with a model like what you're describing. However, based on the measures that have been taken elsewhere, on average, a file is in someone's hands for a little more than two hours. There is of course downtime during that period. The longest waitin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have a speech, per se. I mostly want to introduce my colleagues and to be available for questions. One thing I'd like to point out is that this morning you are going to see two offices--our colleagues who'll be talking are from these offices--that represent probably bot

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I said no.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Yes, it is 100 times higher. The--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's 100 times, yes. The total inventory in Kiev is 163. In Beijing it is 6,928, so that is largely the main difference. In Beijing we essentially have something in the range of 400 times the inventory we have in Kiev. That is largely the rationale for it. With regard to catego

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The only thing we have is the stats of people who have applied. That's about 50%. The majority have approvals, but we don't have stats that allow us to do that.... We'd probably need to pull several hundred cases and do an assessment out of that. We don't have it statistically, b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think so. I don't think we have a record of reasons for visiting--visiting children, coming to the casino.... We don't have those subcategories for visas.