Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes. Short hearing processes are related to the complexity of the case and whether or not we need to schedule—
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee Absolutely.
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee All processes are determined within the IRB. We do not take direction for the process that deals with case decision-making from anybody outside the IRB. It's in the purview of the [Inaudible-Editor].
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee Absolutely not.
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee The expedited processing policy is a policy around how we can deal with some cases. We can look at them first as a paper review rather than a full hearing.
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee There is a current list of countries.
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee No, it's not a question of planning. If I could just take a moment to explain what that list is....
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee I understand, but the list—
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee As you know, Mr. Chair, the members for the refugee protection division are public servants. The members of the refugee appeal division are GI appointments. Public servants are always measured for performance. There are performance discussions with public servants at the beginnin
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee There are always performance metrics discussed with public servants around their work.
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee Case processing being finalizations?
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee Finalizations for members of the refugee protection division should be in and around 120 per year.
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you for inviting us to appear before your committee. My name is Shereen Benzvy Miller, and I am the Deputy Chair of the Refugee Protection Division at the Immigration and Refugee Board. I'm here with Greg Kipling, who is the Director General of Policy, Planning and Corpor
May 3rd, 2018Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee Do you mean by that, people who have crossed the border irregularly?
October 3rd, 2017Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller
Citizenship and Immigration committee You have to ask CBSA but we all keep track of the claimants relative to the information they've given us. They are responsible for keeping all of us up to date on their changes of address and where they are in the country, which is how my colleague was able to describe where the
October 3rd, 2017Committee meeting
Shereen Benzvy Miller