Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm facing that right now. I'm trying to get medicals redone. There are no available spots with the panel physicians. For members from Cuba, there is no panel physician in Cuba. They require a visa to go to a third country to get their medicals redone, which is unfortunate.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. When IRCC requires a document or any additional information from you, there is a time frame of 30 days, but when we need to wait for an interview, it is indefinite. Unfortunately, when you're flagged as “complex”, there are no time frames, which is totally racist, bec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. Paragraph 179(b) is the norm used to reject outland applications. Although dual intent was announced by the Honourable Marco Mendicino, it did not make a difference to the visa officers. Again, they're saying, as in my case, “Oh, you will not return, because your husb

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Correct. If a sponsor has approval and the application is stuck in a visa office abroad, absolutely that's where they should issue these visas so that, as I said, it can act as a bridging permit so that our spouses can be with us during these trying times.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I could go first, if possible. We talk about transparency. It is non-existent, especially all the way down the rungs, which is when an applicant or sponsor is looking for answers. When we raise ATIPs, we don't even get replies. We don't get answers. However, ATIP requests from l

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, but I didn't get that in English.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is on English.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I hear you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I strongly disagree, because it is at the bottom rung of the order. Personally, I've been separated for five years from my family. The flag was because I was divorced. I got an interview one month ago. The interview was for 10 minutes in person. We were not even afforded a virtu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable committee members, for affording us the time to speak. I represent a self-advocacy group with an outreach of over 6,000 victims of IRCC's racist system. I use the word “racist” indeed, especially for families who have been separated forceful