Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have them at the moment, but our chief financial officer might have them. If not, we can provide them to you later.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. In terms of the process for study permits, as the associate deputy minister mentioned, that is a top priority for us, and we do have the resources allocated. I'm very pleased to note that we have been able, even in 2020 in the most difficult of circumstance

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Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay, thank you. As the associate said, we are getting messages that our connection is unstable, so our sincere apologies. We do have our IT here trying to remedy it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay, thank you very much. Currently we do not have any refugee applications in our inventory for individuals from Hong Kong.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, it depends on the circumstances, and I would flag here that we have a very important file for urgent refugee applications, which is our urgent protection program, which we work on in coordination with international partners, including UNHCR. It allows us to facilitate the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's important to highlight from the outset that we have prioritized the processing of all applications from Hong Kong. The way it normally works is that it's a first-in, first-out process. As an application comes in, it goes into the queue, and then it's processed accord

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for asking that question. We're not able to disclose specific case information in terms of permits that have been issued to individuals in Hong Kong, for their safety and security.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There have been a few permits that have been issued, but again, for the safety and security of the people of Hong Kong, we will not be issuing those specific numbers at this point.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our highly trained officers continue to look at each application on a case-by-case basis and based on the totality of evidence before them. H and C is one of the considerations that they look at. I'll give you an example. In 2020, from January until November 30, there were 21 H

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The current VAC contracts are valid until October 31, 2023. The VACs provide administrative support services and biometric collection services. They play no role in the decision-making process. They are expressly forbidden from providing any visa-related advice to applicants or f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have very strong safeguards in place governing the protection of personal information. There's an extensive oversight program in place and technological safeguards ensuring that client information is collected, stored and transmitted securely—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. Canadian immigration officers are trained to consider applications on a case-by-case basis. Generally speaking, for crimes committed outside Canada, an immigration officer must determine whether the same act, if it occurred in Canada, would be consid

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much for the question. As you might imagine, we are continually looking for opportunities to strengthen our coordination with our partners across government, including our partners in the security and intelligence community. We are also always looking for ways to

Canada-China Relations committee  We have been putting in place a number of innovations in order to increase our ability to process applications. Most of our permanent resident applications are paper-based, which, as you can imagine, poses certain limitations in terms of how quickly processing can take place. On