Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is this for super visas?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If there's no alternative. Like I mentioned before, if the quota of 10,000 has been met very early in the year, the super visa does help, at least to have their parents or grandparents here for some time.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I answered this question before in terms of—10,000 at this moment is the quota that is being given to parents and grandparents, but I can't answer that in terms of how many, a specific number. All I know is that it's not enough.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be nice to double that, to be honest, and I'm sure if you double it, it'll take another two hours for that to be filled.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd say that they are services that require, for instance, employment services. Many of them want to start working right away. As far as my personal opinion, I don't really see in my office a lot of people who want to fall back into the social service system. Many of them just wa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I'm understanding, you're saying to increase the quota in the future. Is that correct?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm pro for increasing it, as I mentioned before, because there is a demand for people to reunite with their families, including parents and grandparents.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Especially for refugees who have gained permanent residency here through the refugee protection program, many of those are highly skilled in many professions. They have left and come to Canada because they have to flee for reasons not in their control. Unfortunately, when they co

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think, for children, especially, six months or less is a time frame that is appropriate, mainly because I think being away from their parents for more than six months, as I mentioned before, can have very detrimental and emotional impacts on them and their development as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I know personally, because I often have to make those calls myself as a representative of my clients. The call-in centre system seems to be getting more complicated as well, even for me, and I have been using it for about 10 years, as I mentioned. Usually, the waiting periods a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the things my clients have often expressed is the need to have somebody, a person with a name whom they can have communication with. Sending an application is very personal. We're talking about their families here. I hear a lot about numbers, but it's also important to rem

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For sure. Over the years I've talked to many temporary workers, farm workers, specifically, coming through my doors. They work very hard, extremely hard, in jobs that are not easy jobs to do. They're paying taxes in one way or another here. They're putting in hard labour here for

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's very difficult to say, to be honest, because we are talking about people, 10,000 people. I heard, when it was mentioned previously, that it takes about two hours for that quota to fill, which shows the demand of people wanting to bring their grandparents and parents here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think that's enough. In two hours, it's already filled up. You mentioned the super visa. People come to my office waiting to see whether they can bring in their grandparents one way or another, and when I tell them that, unfortunately, they are not able to submit an appl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a very good question. To be honest, in my experience I've noticed that it's the lack of understanding of how to navigate the process, especially for people who's first language is not English. They have difficulty, like I mentioned, communicating with visa offices. Some o