Status of Women committee  Right now it's taking 26 months to receive permanent residence from the spousal sponsorship. In the majority of cases either the person has a visitor's visa or is without status. In that case, when they go through the process with the emotional strength they put in the relationsh

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. My name is Loly Rico and I'm the president of the Canadian Council for Refugees. We are a national organization and we accommodate more than 180 members. We do most of our work as an advocacy group for the rights of immigrants and refugees. Thank you for the in

Finance committee  Thank you for the invitation. We have 180 organizations in the Canadian Council for Refugees. Among them we have private sponsorship groups, settlement agencies, community groups, and lawyers who work with immigrants and refugees. Thank you for this invitation because we want

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just want to suggest to the committee to review the amendments and consider that you are reducing and taking away services to future Canadians. They will come to this country and they will give enrichment to this country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. First of all, we want to say thank you to the chair and the committee members for allowing the Canadian Council for Refugees to present our position on clauses 172 and 173 of Bill C-43. I am not going to read the whole submission, because it will take longer than