Citizenship and Immigration committee  The claimants are responsible for maintaining their files up to date. Like any court procedure, you would always be responsible to that tribunal for your information. These are very official processes with the claimants.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's the number that had been referred to us since July 1, and we don't keep the statistics about the number of people crossing. We only become seized with the matter when the referral has been by CBSA or IRCC. Our data are always about our caseload, not about the number of peo

Citizenship and Immigration committee  CBSA and IRCC are both accountable for eligibility determination to know whether or not they're going to refer a case to the IRB to be considered for refugee determination or if the person is in need of protection. That process is done, under normal circumstances, either at a por

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The IRB is actually the tribunal that makes the determination of whether or not somebody can be considered a refugee, whether they meet the criteria for the international convention, or whether or not they are a person in need of protection. That decision is the decision around s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They will get a hearing date on that basis, but the claim form does have to be submitted before that, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the Lacolle cohort...? We don't know what the lag time will be for all of them. Currently we have already put 300 cases on the schedule for the members. Let me double-check my numbers on that. We have 8,000 cases referred since July 1, and 240 cases have already been finaliz

Citizenship and Immigration committee  About 1,500 with the response team, then the remaining will go into the regular stream, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have a 16-month wait time for our regular stream. But are you asking me about when the basis of claim form will be expected? That practice notice is just a temporary practice notice. We're going to wait to see probably until the end of November before we reconsider whether or

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If you go to our website, it says that you need to submit all the information around tombstone data, like address, and you have to keep us apprised of your changes of address and contact information. If you have counsel or if you have a consultant who is working with you, we need

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In very brief order, there were 32,000 legacy cases in 2013, when the cases were backlogged originally. The IRB was able to deal with a number of them, but there is the legacy task force in place now to deal with the last 5,500 cases. Six hundred have been put on the docket to da

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. I do not have the data on the acceptance rate for legacy cases, but we can send that in.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  He's talking about fraud.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a great question. One of the fundamental aspects of training for all members is credibility determination. As in any tribunal system, they are essentially looking for credibility of the claimant, and that is one of the primary focuses of our training. It applies to all asp

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it is. We have a formula, so we can do that based on the formula. The formula is our funding formula.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a great question. It's not a question necessarily of whether we're doing something in anticipation of the report so much as that we are constantly looking for internal efficiencies to make sure that in the meantime it's business as usual. We need to improve our finalizatio