Citizenship and Immigration committee  For asylum seekers who enter Canada and are claiming asylum—maybe we will look at the situation around Roxham Road on this—for those who have a clear plan.... First of all, those who are vaccinated or who have a clear plan for quarantine are processed and are on their way. For t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the percentage that's allocated to francophone service provider organizations that deliver these programs, I think we're going to have to get back to you, unless one of my colleagues wants to chime in on that one, broken down by linguistic barriers. In terms of the type of pr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Madam Chair. Congratulations on your re-election. If you were sponsoring a group under a private sponsorship stream now, given the inventory that we have of applications that are there, I think it would probably be close to three years before they would arrive. Mr. Mill

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We're working hard to make improvements to that, both to bring our processing times down on this, as well as to look at what supports we are offering to groups who are coming together to sponsor. We're making sure that we're conscious of vulnerabilities with respect to people

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Part of this is using some of those monies from the 2021 government budget. They are now starting to make their way through the estimates process to be able to hire additional people to process this. Last year we overachieved on some of our PSR targets, in finalizing the decisio

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Canadian experience class is largely composed of people who are already here and working. We continue to focus on that as part of our draws on express entry. As that pool replenishes, we continue to draw from the pool. Even though the score may have dropped to 330, I'll poi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The year 2021 has been a strange year for so many different reasons. From an immigration point of view, the minister has said previously that it's the ultimate paradox that we're trying to run an immigration system and keep the border closed at the same time. This year we have pu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Moving away from paper-based applications is going to be key in that modernization. With respect to the member's previous question, I would point out that we are processing more per month now, in many cases, than we were doing in 2019. The processing efforts from the department h

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Let me start by saying that we have serious challenges with access to information and privacy in this department in terms of volumes. We are a department that is committed to upholding our obligations under the act, and we are working closely with the Office of the Information Co

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This may not be exactly what we are talking about, but I will make a few comments all the same. Services available to newcomers, whether in Quebec or in the rest of Canada, are really important. It's important that we look at this as a whole in terms of what government services

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The work on digital platform modernization that we speak about in budget 2021 is just beginning. We anticipate that it will probably be a good five years by the time we're able to launch our brand new system. We have important work that we have to do upfront on this. The lessons

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are starting phase three now. Now that we have a strong indication from budget 2021 that we will actually have money for phase three, we're starting now. We need to finish phase one and phase two. There's a lot of work under way on disaster recovery and our technical debt re

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're happy to provide an update. I'm sorry. I thought you were asking for it in writing.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks, Madam Chair. We have a number of applications that we are holding onto, because as you know, the border remains closed to new permanent residents. We continue to accept applications and are happy to accept applications. We continue to [Technical difficulty--Editor] and e