Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll double-check with Mr. Mills on that, but no, we're going through them, I think, really in order of how the files have come to us.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, thanks for the question. International adoptions are a complicated business because so much depends on the host country. The member is right; it is causing us to look at how we work through our business and what we do. I hope we can continue to do things a little m

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I greatly appreciate the question. I'm from New Brunswick. Is there a problem?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've made a change in our express entry system. We have given more points to candidates who speak French or are bilingual. I think this will make a big difference for those coming through, particularly international students who come through Canadian institutions, and those ad

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. With the opportunity that the 401,000 target brings for us for next year, I think there are many things we can look at with respect to students in terms of pathways to permanent residence. We're analyzing those right now. However, I'll remind you that

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, thank you for that. The provincial nominee programs continue to work really well. In this COVID time, where processing has been challenging—our border has closed—we are overprocessing, so to speak, around provincial nominee programs. I'm happy to see those numbers a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I'm going to ask Ms. Campbell Jarvis to answer that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. The standard is 14 days. I am sorry for any confusion that has been relayed to you on the part of the call centre. We are pleased that we have the service standard back within the 14 days. I think it's 11 days and eight days, depending on which categ

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I will ask Mr. Mills to answer it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Just to be clear, when it comes to the Immigration and Refugee Board, it's arm's length from IRCC. Therefore, I'll leave that for another time, when you have Mr. Wex before you. From our own perspective, we have worked hard to make sure that employe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thanks for the question. I'll start domestically, in Canada. All our offices have resumed operations, but as you can imagine, it fluctuates up and down and we don't all have in-person capacity at the same level as pre-pandemic. For example, in Vancouver, we're at about 30% capa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The short answer is yes. The longer answer is, boy, would I ever love a system that was able to digitize files so that we could move them around more quickly, but we have people back in. We are moving through the accumulated files that have been there that are paper-based files.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am happy to look into that and the issue around a plane ticket. The member is correct. This is one of those cases. These are paper applications. They're in Sydney. We're trying to work through them as quickly as we can, and we will certainly look into the issue of people being

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess it's one step at a time with students. We worked our way through making sure that you're still eligible for your time overseas to be included with the post-graduate work permit. We've worked through designated learning institutions. We're now at a point where we can welco

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I misunderstood, Ms. Kwan, but I think what the minister said is that some type of implied status will be there while we work our way through what the most appropriate way to look at this problem is—Is it to extend the work permit? How big is it?—just as we're able to put