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Citizenship and Immigration committee  The thing is, when you look at the processing time for Iranian applications and you look at all the streams, there is no evidence coming from the government, because they have not released any data. We know that based on the data that came from the government in 2015, the wait ti

October 25th, 2018Committee meeting

Mahdi Yousefi Koopaei

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have first-hand experience with that. I'm representing this campaign, so I hear from them. I have been talking to 15 of them who applied in 2011 or 2012. They have passed every single stage of the immigration system under the IRPA—inadmissibility, criminality, medical—but basic

October 25th, 2018Committee meeting

Mahdi Yousefi Koopaei

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I personally have emailed the Minister of Public Safety, and the result that I got from that minister is that the security screenings are in process and there is no timeline for that provided for you guys.

October 25th, 2018Committee meeting

Mahdi Yousefi Koopaei

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for that question. As you know, there are thousands of Iranians from coast to coast in Canada who are involved with this issue. We believe that the main issue is caused by not profiling in the right way. By profiling, I mean there is a security system that.... We do

October 25th, 2018Committee meeting

Mahdi Yousefi Koopaei

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Pouyan and the committee, for giving me this opportunity. I only have three minutes, but I want to state that I'm an independent individual here, independent from the Iranian government and from any organization, including the ICC. Today I am representing t

October 25th, 2018Committee meeting

Mahdi Yousefi Koopaei