Citizenship and Immigration committee  I absolutely agree. I think that a sponsor, before they can be eligible to go into the lottery, should be pre-screened. The solution is a matter of linking their tax information. On a citizenship application you can link their tax information through the use of their SIN and thei

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Absolutely. For post-grad work permits, they only get one kick at the can. If they have a one-year work permit, they are not necessarily working for 12 months to meet the requirements for express entry, so they need to renew or extend the work permit. They have to do it thr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can give a live experience on that. We recently had somebody apply who had an open work permit. We applied for a new work permit for that person, but that person can't switch to the new work permit because their previous work permit was an open work permit. For the closed empl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I completely agree that's the case, in terms of permanent family reunification, as well as temporary family reunification for people who are wanting to join their Canadian citizen spouses from other countries or travel with their Canadian citizen spouses from other countries

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, paragraph 179(b) is highly problematic. With the dual intent purposes, basically if there is a sponsorship application, that's viewed negatively, and it's a factor that's viewed towards refusing a TRV application. Requiring spousal sponsorship applicants to additionally app

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think so. I mean they're allowing boyfriends and girlfriends in in a matter of weeks with just a statutory declaration of being in a long-term relationship. There is no issue of looking into how long those people are going to be staying in Canada. The inequity is very, very sta

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. If the COPR has expired, it has expired now because of COVID; it's nothing that the applicant has done. If the COPR has expired, some of them are being requested to redo a security clearance or redo their medical checks, which means they have to go out into the commun

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The work permit extension applications are currently taking upwards of six months, which is a really long time and that's not just for people who need to extend their stay. It's for people who are changing the conditions of their work permit, if they're moving from one employer t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Biometrics is a requirement—a new requirement as of a couple of years ago. It was not always a requirement for the immigration or the temporary residence process. Biometrics involves a photograph and the fingerprints of everybody who is entering Canada, with the exception of Am

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With the delay in launching the lottery or parent/grandparent system this year, it was only earlier this month that people were going into the lottery. We haven't yet seen the results of people who have won basically their “golden ticket”. We don't know what the process is. Ther

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to discuss these very timely immigration matters today. In the early days of the pandemic, it was understandable to expect service disruption. Prioritizing critical infrastructure, essential services, and the containing of COVID-19 was