Citizenship and Immigration committee  Precisely. I have active cases where, for example, unfortunately the person in the Indian subcontinent passed away, leaving a wife. The late husband's family here in Vancouver wanted the brother to marry the husband's spouse and it was blocked as a marriage of convenience. Nevert

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Exactly. The word of the day is “baseline”. What we can measure are trends—increasing or decreasing number of poison pen letters, or cases where within 12 months of landing under the spousal category the immigrant is sponsoring someone else as a spouse. It's that sort of measure

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the success model was built by IRCC in greater China. A specialized team of marriage of convenience visa officers and assorted personnel were clustered to identify and determine these kinds of cases rapidly. That team enjoyed such a success rate that the MOC, marriage of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I do. I think it is entirely appropriate to have processing times published for public consumption when it comes to parents and grandparents. That way, people will know in advance of their application how long processing will take. Until the inventory is reduced, 12 months i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I have done over the years is provide quality time with “wannabe” members of Parliament of all parties, with the following: “I hope you are aware that 80% of an MP's time is dedicated to immigration issues. If you don't know it now, you certainly will know it if you are succ

Citizenship and Immigration committee  To clarify, there are approximately three million applications made in a year for immigration services, and the oddity is that individuals, for each individual application, repeatedly enter the same information again and again and again, instead of having a central repository for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In this, it's a question of what they call risk management. The magic golden nugget is something called the abuse variable. How many cases are you going to tolerate before pointing the enforcement spear? The good thing is that, for the first time in close to 10 years, there are f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not today, Mr. Chairman; I'm appearing as an individual. I'm an immigration lawyer and policy analyst and a member of the Quebec bar and of the British Columbia bar.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. It's an honour and a pleasure to be appearing before the committee. I'll try to use the seven minutes wisely. First, to save time, I would draw again the committee's attention to the submissions of the Canadian Bar Association. I support and endorse every recommendati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are completing the same information at every step along Canada's immigration continuum, for both temporary and permanent resident status. It's as if you had a dozen different silos for information collection. The model is [Technical difficulty—Editor] Canada Revenue Agency....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, we are receiving here in Vancouver messages that the communication has been disconnected. I'll continue regardless.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What should occur is the use of the CRA model in information intake—one file, one person. You enter your personal information and update it over time. You then select the service requested—visitor visa, extension, study, work, PR card, sponsorship, or even citizenship application

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It merits careful scrutiny for the following security reason. If I'm the HR director of a very nasty group in the Middle East seeking to do damage in Canada or in our like-minded allies, I would be focusing my recruitment efforts among the stateless who are physically present in

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The quick answer is to merge the issue into the creation of a structural remedy for discretion in individual citizenship cases.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a conflict between this proposed amendment and the rights of the child, the international rights of the child.