Citizenship and Immigration committee  We see so much value in family reunification because we recognize how important it is to bring families together, and it is an important part of the programs we deliver. When we're assessing the relationship between spouses or common-law partners, officers must be satisfied tha

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madame Chair, I believe Madam Lang will be able to provide some additional information because, as stated, it is important that we ensure that the relationship is genuine but that we're not doing so in a manner that is seen as harassing an applicant.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will say that during the pandemic, we did make decisions to address the priority applications of people who could travel to Canada, but at one particular point, as you know, border restrictions did not permit us to be able to allow all applicants to head toward Canada. Having

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, thank you for the question and the intervention provided. I'm happy to report that Bangladesh is indeed being considered for the SDS program. On March 24, 2022, IRCC informed the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in a letter that the internal evaluation of SDS was com

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Madam Chair, I'd like to thank the honourable member for his question. Naturally, we hope that consultants working in the immigration sector are well intentioned. In fact, many of them are very dedicated and hard-working, and have the skills to do the job. That said, we are als

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is my understanding, yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I understand it, that is the process.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not familiar with the exact process as to how consultants are licensed. I would prefer to follow up with you afterwards so that I can confirm the facts and provide exact information. That's why I'm hesitating.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can assure you, Madam Chair, that the college does exist. The fact is I'm less familiar with how the college works, because it hasn't been around very long. Nevertheless, I imagine that one of the purposes of the college is precisely to license consultants. I want to be sure I

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My recommendation would be to conduct an assessment to figure out whether it's doable. I wouldn't want to say outright that it is, because I don't have enough information to confirm whether that's true. For example, we would have to determine whether the data could be stored secu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would have to do some analysis to get a better sense of how it could be done. We are open to considering the committee's recommendations and exploring what would be possible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madame Chair, for the request. I just want to make sure I understand the question. As was mentioned, we are doing a lot of work to analyze and review our policies and programs and our client service delivery to ensure that we're removing barriers related to systemic r

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to start off, every application that is submitted for an international student—or any application, for that matter, but in particular because we're talking about international students—each application is looked at on its own merit and its own application in the unique way i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I am trying to say is that those measures, whether it's for fraud, reasons of finance or reasons of not returning, are looked at in all applications and not just in the applications of students originating from Africa.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. What we think is that it's possible that racism could be at play. Part of what we're doing is that analysis to do that quality assurance, as we've been discussing, to ensure whether or not the application has been looked at through the lens of the fac