Citizenship and Immigration committee It was lower.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Last year it was 1,175.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's correct.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee First, I should clarify that not all applications are approved. So out of the 2,500.... I'm not sure what would be the percentage, but over 3,000 applications at some point will be reduced in Beijing.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee There is the backlog and then there is the age of the backlog. So when I look at the older cases, those from before, say, 2008, the inventory in Beijing was larger than the one in New Delhi. So what we're trying to do is to finalize most of the older cases to try to reduce the di
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee They would be in their late fifties or early sixties, but I don't have the data with me.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee They are different from place to place, so maybe I could ask my colleagues to describe what's in their office.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee First of all, the wait times are not necessarily the result of best practices. As I indicated at the outset, because of the characteristics specific to the different offices, it sometimes happens that a best practice used in one centre cannot necessarily be applied in another. In
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee The last data I had was that it was 40 months, but it has been increasing, since the number of applications received is larger than the target that we are allowed to do.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's correct.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's slightly under 7,000.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee It's close to 12,000.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee The number has varied from year to year, but for 2011 the target that was set for us was 11,200.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, in total.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert
Citizenship and Immigration committee In the case of Beijing, currently it's 2,500. To be precise, we changed it slightly during the year. That was not the number at the beginning of the year. It was 2,650. Now it's 2,500. In the case of New Delhi, it's 2,300, and in the case of Manila, 750.
February 15th, 2011Committee meeting
Rénald Gilbert