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Any applicants being delayed for citizenship in Vancouver, BC? Please contact MP Kwan

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kevinstenner

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Thanks for your reply.

I am writing from Alberta. I know MP Kwan is an advocate for immigration and citizenship reforms, please just forward to her the content of my email and she will know what she should do. I sincerely hope she would raise a question in Parliament on this issue on behalf of the many citizenship applicants across the country, or challenge IRCC at the immigration committee.

I know she will do something.

Thanks.

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On Thursday, October 28, 2021, 10:26:12 PM GMT+7, Kwan, Jenny - M.P. <jenny.kwan@parl.gc.ca> wrote:


Thank you for your email to MP Kwan. May I ask of your home address or postal code, so that Jenny can know what federal riding you live in? It will help her to best respond. Many thanks in advance and we will look for your reply.
Best regards, Lisa
Lisa MacLeod
Member’s Assistant | Adjointe de la députée
Office of Jenny Kwan, MP-elect | Vancouver East
Bureau de Jenny Kwan, Députée élue| Vancouver-Est
NDP | NPD
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(613) 992-6030
Jenny.Kwan.a2@parl.gc.ca


From: Mia Donalds <miadonald393@yahoo.com>
Sent: September 3, 2021 12:18 AM
To: Zahid, Salma - M.P. <Salma.Zahid@parl.gc.ca>; Hallan, Jasraj Singh - M.P. <JasrajSingh.Hallan@parl.gc.ca>; Normandin, Christine - Députée <Christine.Normandin@parl.gc.ca>; Kwan, Jenny - M.P. <Jenny.Kwan@parl.gc.ca>
Subject: Re: Centralize citizenship processing, get rid of local office model


***Office staff of these MPs please make sure you forward this message to them. Thank you***
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Dear Members of CIMM,

I understand the House of Commons has been dissolved, pending new election.

However, please review the matter below and keep it in your mind when things resume.

I look forward to your fighting for many prospective Canadians.


Best regards

On Friday, September 3, 2021, 01:27:50 AM GMT+7, Andrew Griffith <agriffith232@gmail.com> wrote:


Mia,

Thanks for sharing. Think you have covered the key points and pleased that you and others are raising the issue.

Another relevant point is that IRCC knows who the applicants are, given the PR files, just as they know those transition from temporary to permanent residency.

Clearly reflects citizenship as lessor priority (yet again…).

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Andrew Griffith

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On Sep 2, 2021, at 13:11, Mia Donalds <miadonald393@yahoo.com> wrote:

Mr. Mendicino:

I was shared your email addresses.

For your last days in office before the election, I urge you to solve citizenship processing backlogs for all prospective Canadians. Should be the last (or first) nice thing you do for the citizenship program.

We all see that citizenship is a lower priority than immigration as the Minister and IRCC are doing everything possible to meet the immigration levels. As most of the processing is carried out in CPC-Sydney, then be stuck at local offices, you should audit inventories at these local offices asap.

In the USA, most federal programs don't stop. Citizenship processing has never been slowed down. Fed employees are still showing up full hours for work. Same for Australia. Who gives Canadian public servants a special right not to do their job, affect other people's lives, and not being held accountable for their actions?

I know there is still a debate on when Canadian federal employees should be forced to return to work. Right now, because of COVID, some offices take advantage of working from home for their own flexible working hours. Citizenship processing in Canada is so human and paper-dependent. The system is messy, bottlenecks are everywhere in the stages where it should have been easiest - scheduling tests and Oaths, as most works are done by CPC-S already.

Looking forward into the future, when the e-app platform for citizenship application is fully functional, you should consider getting rid of the local office model completely, and centralize the citizenship processing from start to end using the AI & centralized model, to make sure the process is fair, consistent, orderly (FIFO) and does not discriminate anyone, any country or any racial profiles, like right now when you give the decision making authority to local offices. It is not efficient, costs more, and causes a lot of stress for the public. Unless and until these local office staff are threatened for job security, they may not want to work as supposed to.

In the meantime, please fix the problem with all paper file inventory and give a deadline for each local office to give all these people Oath invitations by the end of 2021 because things have been delayed for 2 years already. Hold bigger virtual ceremonies, simplify the Oath process, cut back on steps that are not necessary. Give them a hard deadline so they know they must work.

One day, it is foreseeable IRCC will employ AI to do all this processing easily as other countries have done (kudos to IRCC for having started all this). Conservatives if taking over will have a huge staff cut.

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2021/amid-languishing-numbers-canadas-citizenship-process-needs-to-be-modernized/
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I'm in south Burnaby and wrote to Jagmeet a week ago. No response. I kindly asked him to address the delay of Oath for Vancouver applicants.
 
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kevinstenner

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Dear Ms. Donalds,



Thank you for your email and for sharing your concerns about IRCC’s processing system. I would urge that you please make sure to raise these concerns with your local MP as well and seek their response.



In terms of the delays in processing applications at IRCC, the issue of long delays in processing of applications is a longstanding one and, unfortunately, the situation has worsened under COVID-19 and at this point delays in processing and huge backlogs are in virtually every stream.



There was a backlog in processing even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and things have only escalated. With the federal election call, and the highly urgent situation in Afghanistan, processing of all streams are in such a state that more resources need to be made available to IRCC so that they can get things back on track, and complete processing & issue of documents in a fair, compassionate timeline.



In terms of the overall IRCC system, intake and processing, there is work underway to modernize the system and I am supportive of that effort, and I would hope that it would address issues such as what you describe with the local office model. However, IRCC has indicated that full implementation of the modernized system will not be in effect for another 5 years. It is therefore critical that immediate resources are made available to relieve the considerable processing backlog that have impacted all aspects of immigration.



I have attached for your information a letter that I have sent to the new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Sean Fraser, to lay out some of these critical issues facing IRCC and what needs to be done to tackle the serious problems and challenges facing the department. I would hope that your local MP would support action on these measures as well.



Please be assured that I will work to put pressure on the Minister to address these ongoing concerns. Many thanks again for raising these concerns to my attention.



Sincerely,

Jenny Kwan



Jenny Kwan

MP for Vancouver East



NDP Critic for Housing

NDP Critic for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

NDP Caucus Chair

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2572 East Hastings Street

Vancouver, BC

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