Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's 1,400 per month.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is no straight answer to that question. Essentially, we are unlikely to ever be in a scenario where we have zero backlog.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, currently the wait time is 16 months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends which category of cases you were looking at. It's a little bit like—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For asylum seekers, I understand. Generally it was considered to be, for 50% of the cases, 6.5 months. Those were the cases that were within the time frames.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it is fair to say that the more cases we get without an increase in our capacity, the longer the wait time is going to be. It is a mathematical calculation. If you have more on your docket—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Essentially it is the math of the number of members with support that would allow us to complete. Under our current numbers of members we can complete 2,000 cases a month. If you want to do 3,000 cases a month, you need a percentage more in order to increase by that number. It's

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, 5,300 is what was left after the legacy initiative was finished in 2012.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since they started...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are 600 on the docket now to be heard.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right. They've finalized 50. They have 600 scheduled. They started to do hearings on September 18. Between May and September they were ramping up to find former members who could.... One thing I would like to clarify is that it is a highly specialized field to be a member, a dec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I could just add a clarification, the basis of claim form is for the IRB, so it does have to be filled out long before we actually take it to hearing. There are a number of other forms that get filled out for eligibility determination, which is then done by CBSA and IRCC. Thos

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the referral process or...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The basis of claim form is the narrative that describes the journey of each individual claimant so that it grabs not only the tombstone data of information, like family members, etc., but also, literally, the facts on which the claim is being based, so that when a member is looki

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. It's not the only thing that is looked at by a member, but it certainly is one of the very important pieces of evidence that is looked at because it is a combination of fact and law that will influence the adjudication.