Citizenship and Immigration committee  Slow justice is no justice, when it comes to visitor visas. I think we have to keep that in mind. Any appeal process has to move very quickly, and that's why it has to be an administrative process. We talked about police clearances. You get police clearances for permanent reside

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think exit controls are absolutely fundamental. I know that CIC and CBSA have been working on the concept for some time. The Americans have a system, as Julie pointed out. They are not happy with their own system. There's considerable discussion now about doing better. I thin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. For expedited visas, when you need to be here on an urgent basis, almost all people would be willing to pay extra, as they do for passports when they need a passport overnight. We now have a passport service. We don't have to call our MP, as we used to have to 10 ye

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wouldn't perhaps pick the Philippines, but there are certainly countries in the world where there is a push to leave—and we know some of those countries. Yes, there would be a likelihood of more of those visitors not returning on time than there would be in the case of visitors

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I understand the point. From time to time there is a certain lackadaisicalness among people who don't have visa restrictions. I agree with that, but no, those countries that are economically or politically in difficulty are more likely to produce individuals who don't go back on

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you're looking at it backwards, with respect. I don't think we can shoot for a percentage necessarily. We should be shooting to accommodate as many applications as we can.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will go back to a couple of the comments, and to Mr. Menegakis's comment—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. I thought that was addressing both.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will defer back to you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To reply to that question, the criterion, of course, for a Federal Court review is that there was an error in law or in the way the decision was approached. Most courts give a fair amount of latitude, as I think they should, to visa offices' expertise in analyzing the facts befor

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One hopes this could take some of the burden of the backlog off your offices. Today, processing times for TRVs have ballooned in a number of our offices around the world. A couple are actually getting better. India is pretty good. Others are not so good, and our visa offices in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and honourable members. It's a great honour and a pleasure to be here. I am a lawyer in Toronto. I am certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in the practice of immigration law. I have practised it exclusively for the past 27 y