Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. To make things clear, in the case of a temporary residence application, we review the application when it's complete. Each time the departments share information, for example, if the biometrics are missing, the processing time stops. The time start

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. To answer the question, to date, we've processed about 40,000 family class applications for this year. As the minister said, the goal is 49,000 applications. We have one month left. We still have work to do, but we're confident that we'll achieve the goal

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The start date for calculating the processing time is the date when an application arrives in the department's mailroom.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. It's the date when the application arrives at the department. If the application arrives on January 1, but it isn't opened and processed until June, January 1 is considered the start date for processing purposes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have any details on this topic, but we can certainly give you some.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. In terms of the processing time, we're talking about the time when the department receives the application, in other words, the date of receipt—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Thank you. As the deputy minister said, the program was open from mid-October to early November. People who wanted to use another method to submit their application, such as a paper application, were given a few extra weeks to do so. Now that the program is over and we've

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Ms. Normandin referred to the acknowledgements of receipt for the Quebec skilled workers class. This business line is located in Sydney, Nova Scotia. It's completely paper-based, which means that all documents are submitted in paper format. Because of the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, this is indeed the case. Regarding family reunification, this year we approved just over 41,000 applications. As the minister said, our target is 49,000 applications. We're working hard on this. We had a significant increase in approvals in the fall, in September, October an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've reassigned staff from other business lines that had a slightly lower volume of work. We've also hired new staff. It's a mix of both.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. As the deputy minister said, we must ensure the health and safety of Canadians. Prior to issuing the authorization letter, when we contact clients, we also make sure that they already have a well-established quarantine plan to facilitate their arrival in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to clarify that the confirmation of permanent residence is related either to the validity of the passport or the medical certificate. The validity of the confirmation of permanent residence depends on one or the other. People who had a confir

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. We have contacted people directly. We still have about 7,000 people to contact. We are trying to have a more dynamic and effective strategy to communicate with them, whether by email—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. We have allocated resources to deal with the situation. However, as the deputy minister said, we are talking about paper applications and they are in Sydney, Nova Scotia. There were other priorities and we had to adjust our operations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Actually, we have not stopped processing Quebec's applications. When we resumed our activities in May and June, we were ready to finalize a lot of decisions and files, because we were processing a lot of applications before the pandemic, as you menti