The Recommendations of The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration - useful to read

[Mancini]

Hello everyone..

This is a long report (102 pages) by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration... it addresses the backlogs (approximately 2 million applications). It includes around 40 recommendations to address these huge backlogs.

It is very useful to read... It gives us, as refugee claimants, hope that there is some people there who really care for us... I pray their recommendations will be implemented.



This is the link to the full report of the committee:

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/parl/xc64-1/XC64-1-1-441-18-eng.pdf

Recommendation 19:

That Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada create a temporary public policy for protected persons to allow them to obtain permanent residence automatically, as they have waited in the backlog, in some instances, for years.

Acting on Ministerial Mandate Letter for Accelerated Family Reunification

Recommendation 20

That the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship act on his mandate letter to speed up family reunification applications for both refugee applications and family class applications and that the government regularly publish the processing times for these streams.

 

[Copingwithlife]

Hello everyone..

This is a long report (102 pages) by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration... it addresses the backlogs (approximately 2 million applications). It includes around 40 recommendations to address these huge backlogs.

It is very useful to read... It gives us, as refugee claimants, hope that there is some people there who really care for us... I pray their recommendations will be implemented.



This is the link to the full report of the committee:

https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/parl/xc64-1/XC64-1-1-441-18-eng.pdf

Recommendation 19:

That Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada create a temporary public policy for protected persons to allow them to obtain permanent residence automatically, as they have waited in the backlog, in some instances, for years.

Acting on Ministerial Mandate Letter for Accelerated Family Reunification

Recommendation 20

That the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship act on his mandate letter to speed up family reunification applications for both refugee applications and family class applications and that the government regularly publish the processing times for these streams.

Guess Canadians would be on board ( voters ) if there didn’t appear to be rampant abuse of the program and sheer incompetence on the part of the Government.
Zero enforcement when someone has no further appeals and just elects to stay in the country .
And I as a voter am supposed to support this ? Further incompetence . Liberals know they’ll be voted out on the next election, must as well further destroy the country.
* OP just applied like in the last couple months . Do people seriously think that if they’ve applied recently the government will include them in this so called amnesty?

 

[Mancini]

The current process is unnecessarily repetitive,

A refugee claimant most probably has a TRV in the first place (study, visit, etc.).. this means the biometrics are there, the security check is there,..

but then... after making the refugee claim, a refugee claimant will again first do biometrics, then a medical check, then security check, then if no security issues, go to hearing, if everything is ok, the claim is approved, ... the claimant becomes a protected person...

then apply for a PR, then biometrics (again), then medical (again), then security (again)...
One of the recommendation of the committee was that this can be eliminated, since all these steps are already done at least once when filing the refugee claim, why do it again? and again?

Most of these recommendations make sense.. This will help IRCC speed the process, particularly for protected persons and their dependents, and will significantly reduce the backlog.. which will reflect positively on Canada's immigration system, economy, etc.

Why taking up to 2 years for a refugee claim to be decided? Why take further 2-4 for a protected person to reunite with their family?

It is not a matter of amnesty, it is rather eliminating unnecessary repetitive steps already done in earlier stages....

This has nothing to do with a party in power or individuals, it is something to do with the willingness for forward thinking and putting behind the bureaucratic mentality.

 

[canuck78]

The current process is unnecessarily repetitive,

A refugee claimant most probably has a TRV in the first place (study, visit, etc.).. this means the biometrics are there, the security check is there,..

but then... after making the refugee claim, a refugee claimant will again first do biometrics, then a medical check, then security check, then if no security issues, go to hearing, if everything is ok, the claim is approved, ... the claimant becomes a protected person...

then apply for a PR, then biometrics (again), then medical (again), then security (again)...
One of the recommendation of the committee was that this can be eliminated, since all these steps are already done at least once when filing the refugee claim, why do it again? and again?

Most of these recommendations make sense.. This will help IRCC speed the process, particularly for protected persons and their dependents, and will significantly reduce the backlog.. which will reflect positively on Canada's immigration system, economy, etc.

Why taking up to 2 years for a refugee claim to be decided? Why take further 2-4 for a protected person to reunite with their family?

It is not a matter of amnesty, it is rather eliminating unnecessary repetitive steps already done in earlier stages....

This has nothing to do with a party in power or individuals, it is something to do with the willingness for forward thinking and putting behind the bureaucratic mentality.

Biometrics is valid for 10 years so not required to redo biometrics every time. In terms of medical and background checks the results can be quite different within even a few months.

 

[Simba112]

The current process is unnecessarily repetitive,

A refugee claimant most probably has a TRV in the first place (study, visit, etc.).. this means the biometrics are there, the security check is there,..

but then... after making the refugee claim, a refugee claimant will again first do biometrics, then a medical check, then security check, then if no security issues, go to hearing, if everything is ok, the claim is approved, ... the claimant becomes a protected person...

then apply for a PR, then biometrics (again), then medical (again), then security (again)...
One of the recommendation of the committee was that this can be eliminated, since all these steps are already done at least once when filing the refugee claim, why do it again? and again?

Most of these recommendations make sense.. This will help IRCC speed the process, particularly for protected persons and their dependents, and will significantly reduce the backlog.. which will reflect positively on Canada's immigration system, economy, etc.

Why taking up to 2 years for a refugee claim to be decided? Why take further 2-4 for a protected person to reunite with their family?

It is not a matter of amnesty, it is rather eliminating unnecessary repetitive steps already done in earlier stages....

This has nothing to do with a party in power or individuals, it is something to do with the willingness for forward thinking and putting behind the bureaucratic mentality.

Implementing those recommendations in one hand will address backlog, but will make it so attractive for people to come to Canada and apply for Refugees, hoping they can be fast tracked. People with Work Permit, study permit or Visitors Visa will also be tempted to go via refugee route. In 2022/23, they approved almost all visitors visa on a backlog caused by pandemic to boost local tourism, what happened is skyrocketting of refugee claimants.

Pay close attention on below statistics, and careful look at the trend on these four countries for the year 2021,2022 and 2023. Going with those recommendation, will triple refugee claimants again. We are talking about From 55k claimant in 2022 to 150k in 2023

https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/protection/Pages/index.aspx
https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/volume-reports.aspx

KENYA
VENEZUELA
MEXICO
COLOMBIA

 

[Mancini]

Implementing those recommendations in one hand will address backlog, but will make it so attractive for people to come to Canada and apply for Refugees, hoping they can be fast tracked. People with Work Permit, study permit or Visitors Visa will also be tempted to go via refugee route. In 2022/23, they approved almost all visitors visa on a backlog caused by pandemic to boost local tourism, what happened is skyrocketting of refugee claimants.

Pay close attention on below statistics, and careful look at the trend on these four countries for the year 2021,2022 and 2023. Going with those recommendation, will triple refugee claimants again. We are talking about From 55k claimant in 2022 to 150k in 2023

https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/protection/Pages/index.aspx
https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/statistics/Pages/volume-reports.aspx

KENYA
VENEZUELA
MEXICO
COLOMBIA

It is indeed a huge number of claims.. by end of 2022 the backlog was around 70k but by end of 2023 it will double to at least 140k
at least 85k of total pending claims (out of 126k as of 30/9/2023) are from Mexico, Colombia, Turkey, Haiti, India, Venezuela and then Afghanistan, Iran, Congo, Cameron, Angola, Bangladesh and Pakistan while the rest of the world accounts for around 40k claims.