Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Indeed, it is not our practice to deal with these applications separately. As the deputy minister mentioned, there may be an aspect that is specific to this application. We can check it, find out exactly what was done in this case and why the family members

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I thank my colleague. I will add that each application will be evaluated individually. An application can also include other persons. One single application can allow two or three people to ultimately come to Canada. We can therefore hit the target of 90,000. It does not necessa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are actively processing files for qualified workers in Quebec. We handled more than 7,500 applications for the Quebec qualified workers class between January and April. I can assure you we are giving this our full attention. We will continue to process applications with the sa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. As I stated earlier, in terms of scanning the files for qualified workers in Quebec, we have a contract with an organization that will provide the service. We sent out more than 10,000 applications to be scanned. We have received 2,700 digitized appli

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Here are the numbers that were posted at 3:08 p.m. on our website. We have received 1,172 applications for health care workers in Canada and 6,737 applications for essential non-health care workers, out of a maximum allowable number of 30,000. If yo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. We made a strategic decision at the beginning of the year with respect to digitization. To date, more than 30,000 applications for various classes have been digitized, ranging from— the caregiver, parents and grandparents, Quebec-selected skilled wo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. For some classes, including the family class, the process is complete or will be by the end of June. All of our records at the department will be digitized. For family caregivers, the remaining applications will be digitized by late July or early August. Staff across the co

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to thank the member for her question. At the beginning of May, we launched a pilot to support the digital intake of applications for certain lines of business. The Atlantic immigration pilot and the agri-food pilot, among other programs, were integrated into the pi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I just want to add that we do follow up, keeping a very close eye on the applications that come in. I mentioned earlier that we were getting ready to process between 35,000 and 44,000 applications this year. We will be making sure the various streams are fairly repre

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'd like to add to what my colleague said about paper-based processing. We are digitizing applications so they can be processed remotely, given the restrictions in place throughout the world. Digitization gives us the ability to process applications that would have n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are cutting down on processing time and reducing the backlog in most lines of business. A few months ago, we received additional funding in the supplementary estimates, so thank you. We used that funding to hire people—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair. I'd like to thank the member for his question. Yes, we are facing a significant challenge when it comes to processing capacity. However, we are convinced that we can process the applications we received last week. The department plans to process 35,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Would you like me to start over?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay, perfect. To wrap up, I was saying that, with our current processing capacity, we are confident that we will be able to process between 35,000 and 44,000 applications by December 31 of this year.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, the department has redirected resources to prioritize family class applications, as previously announced. That is a top priority for us. I'm happy to report that we have made tremendous progress on those applications in recent months. We have pr