Citizenship and Immigration committee  Obviously, adjusting the numbers definitely needs to be implemented. There is obviously a reason the government is capping these numbers. Are we saying we are not able to process enough applications? Is that why we have only 400,000 people per year? Is that what we are saying,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think any country has a right to choose the countries they desire for their economy. We currently have a huge pool of people in Canada who are starting to leave because of the restrictions of express entry and because they don't qualify for permanent residency. IRCC has the to

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I know that this process, as far as it goes, is not actually service-standard-friendly, because people say, “This person's file got processed faster than mine.” However, at some stage, there have to be some sacrifices made in order to catch up. If we have a queue and stuff is b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a very good question. Unfortunately, the government is very tight-lipped about this. I can tell you that previously when we, as CBSA officers, were using the system to do security checks, it was very.... Back in the day, they had this system called FOSS. It's a similar sy

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On work permits, as I said, if you're doing labour market work permits, simple cases in which the government, Service Canada, has proof that this employer is eligible to bring in somebody, then the document requirements are very straightforward. The officers are given straight di

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I deal with quite a few different offices. I have a lot of clients from Brazil, from Iran and from India. Our office deals with a variety. As I said, it's not limited to a certain country. To give you an example, in Iran a work permit currently goes typically about a year withou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  My name is Shervin Madani. I am also a former CBSA officer. I had pretty much the same career path as Mr. Rai: from 2007 to 2012 with Canada Border Services Agency at their land border, and from 2012 to the present as an associate with Regency Immigration.