Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for asking the question. You asked first about the tourism industry. You know, I'm really feeling sad here for Canada, because we are down to number 15 in the world now. In the year 2000, we were in eighth place. Now we are not in the top ten: we are in 15th place and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, I'd like to mention a few things here. I don't know what kind of security concerns there are if Ms. Kaur has cancer and wants to see her mom at the last moment. I don't see a visa officer looking at any security concerns. In the second case, when Mr. Cui's mom was m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm totally in favour of biometrics. As you mentioned, I am aware of the biometric mechanisms where we take a person's fingerprints and a live picture of that person. In my view, that will definitely help in protecting our security system. If a person comes here multiple times,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In that case—I'll put forward my opinion here—even when the applicant is asked for a security check overseas, that person usually goes directly to the security authorities. In India, for example, if the visa officer asks for a police clearance certificate, it is already done by t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, Mr. Davies. I don't think security is the primary reason they are rejecting all the visas. In my view, there is a generic view among all the visa officers in that region. They have some general opinion regarding all the applicants who are applying, that there might be forg

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we're changing over to biometrics.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I mentioned that, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There must be an appeal process to challenge the decision of a visa officer at the designated visa post. This would be an appeal procedure similar to the one available at the visa post level for the U.K. and Australia. The current system allows an applicant to appeal to the Feder

Citizenship and Immigration committee  After this I am going to offer some practical solutions to these problems, and I hope Mr. Chair and the members of the committee will like my solutions. First of all, I would like to present—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. There are a lot of irregularities happening in the visa posts. For example, in the case of work visas, even if the applicant has strong ties with India and he is financially well to do in that country, the visa is refused because the person will not come back. In cases w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me today. My name is Rajesh Randev. I am a regulated Canadian immigration consultant and a member of ICCRC. Today I would like to shed light on some of the emerging immigration