Citizenship and Immigration committee  From what I understand, the Iranians are singular in this issue. We're the only ones facing this issue at this scale. Again what I would recommend for the committee to do is to really ask and demand information about why this is happening. We need more information about why. We n

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, I want to apologize that we weren't able to give any submission. It's because we were told about this only late Wednesday evening. That didn't give us enough time to prepare and then submit in time for translation. We can definitely do that. Again, I outlined fiv

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What was the question?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I actually see part of the delayed applicants issue as being related to this, because we don't have an embassy in Iran, especially for outland applicants. We don't have visa applications in Iran either, and this is something that we actually made into a petition that was sponsore

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that they're not necessarily mutually exclusive and that our lack of relations has perhaps exacerbated this problem. Really the onus right now, even putting the issue of diplomatic relations aside, which also definitely needs to be solved, is that's very urgent. Our o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we are.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First, I wouldn't characterize it necessarily as a backlog. What's happening is that the vast majority of Iranian applicants are actually being sent into another stream. They clear everything else through IRCC and they're being sent into the comprehensive security screening proce

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Maybe Mahdi is better off answering this. Go ahead, Mahdi.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It seems everybody is being sent towards a comprehensive security screening to begin with. That's the real problem all Iranians face, based on their nationality.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The problem we've identified is that Iranians have a much higher chance than anyone else of being sent for comprehensive security examinations. Again, we don't have exact reasons as to why this is happening, but that is the root cause as far as we've identified it. That's what I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry; I would love to speak on this issue, but I was informed that this would be about voluntary migration, and this is specifically what we've prepared for. We've prepared specifically on the issue of the delays in PR application cases. This seems almost like a foreign pol

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mahdi.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's short. The ICC has five recommendations to remedy this important issue. The first is to prioritize all the remaining applications that are still in delay so that these files are processed as soon as possible. The second is to establish a visa application centre in Iran to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I will start.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks. It's good to see you too. Hello, honourable members of the committee. My name is Pouyan Tabasinejad. I'm the vice-president of the Iranian Canadian Congress. We're a Canadian advocacy organization whose goal is to advocate on behalf of Iranian Canadians, who number aroun