Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for your question. It's actually a mix of the two. Those funds will help us work on complex matters that have been pending for a number of years, but also continue to meet our service standards for certain categories of applications, including Express Entry applicants

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's a mix of the two, but as the minister said, immigration levels—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't have a detailed timeline for that, but as the minister said, the annual budgets are used for immigration applications. The funding requested in the supplementary estimates is primarily to reduce the backlog of files. We're basing it on the annual reference levels.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question. The average processing rate for temporary resident visas from Pakistan is about 90 days. That includes all processing periods from September 7 onwards.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. In Pakistan, we do process applications from the cohort in Afghanistan.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The information is correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  According to our data, the 14‑day processing times are met for 90% of our clients. We have to make sure that the file is complete before we start processing, and that includes biometrics. It is important to note this. In some cases, applicants have applied, but have not yet pro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The processing time for renewing permanent resident cards was about 120 days in December. I'm very happy to say that it's about 65 days today. So we've made a lot of progress, and we're continuing to reduce the backlog as much as possible to reach our target of less than 60 day

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question. The information that the honourable member is referring to is correct, that the processing time was indeed over 10 or 11 months, but it is now about six months. We have worked hard to significantly reduce processing times, and we'll continue

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I thank the honourable member for her question. I don't have the details of each category, but I can tell you that right now there are still 250 people in the queue who applied in 2018.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'll have to provide the committee with the answer to that question later.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I don't have the exact figures in front of me, but I can say—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Basically, we have to look at where the applications come from—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question. The honourable member is right that there are a lot of applications pending for skilled workers in Quebec. We are working hard to reduce the backlog as much as possible. I am really proud to say that in the first two months of the year, we

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Right now, we are talking about 35 months, or three years, for processing applications in this category. It's really due to our backlog of applications, plus all the other situations we manage in parallel with that.