By Katrina Parker
Since my last update of March 5, 2012, many positive things have happened.
Last week, we had a teleconference with Judge de Montigny and lawyers from Justice Department. It appears that with all the mandamus applications submitted, the pressure is on and Citizenship and Immigration Canada intends to make a determination of your files by the end of June 30, 2012.
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Katrina Parker
Since our last update, I had a teleconference with the Honourable Judge Yves de Montigny and Justice Department lawyers who has been assigned as the lead Judge and lead counsels to manage all the mandamus files.
We are pleased to be dealing with a very intelligent and practical Judge. This will most definitely be more efficient in the long run and beneficial.
As of today, we submitted 324 files to the Federal Court. Because of the closure of the Embassy of Canada in Damascus, it is difficult for the Court to fulfill their legal obligation to send us a written reply to our formal demands. Therefore, we are still in the process of expecting all the Rules 9 which is a reply to our demands to expedite the processing of each and every file of each and every applicant.
Once we receive the totality of the Rules 9, we shall submit one representative case that will be submitted to the Court to regroup all of the 324 applicants.
I will inform you of the representative file we have chosen as well as the follow up teleconference with the Judge.
The Judge shall then issue an order with precise dates to submit the following procedures:
1) Our Applicant's record - this is usually submitted 30 days after all of the Rules 9 are completed
2) The Respondent's record- 30 days after the Applicant's record
3) The Applicant's reply
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Majid Bastami
The (mainly) media-centric and completely pre-planned presence of Mr. Kenney in the meeting of the immigration committee of the federal parliament dated on October 20th is so important and should not be considered just as an ordinary report to the parliament. The meeting has been held exactly one week before the meeting dated on October 27th which will testify against the minister in order to prepare the members of the committee to accept the existing facts.
But what are these facts?
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By Katrina Parker
On June 18, 2008, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act was amended to give the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration authority to issue instructions that would ensure the processing of applications and requests be conducted in a manner that, in the opinion of the Minister, will best support the attainment of immigration goals set by the Government of Canada.
The first set of Ministerial Instructions was issued on November 28, 2008 and came into effect immediately. (Operational Bulletin No 089, December 2, 2008.
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"CIO is acting in a bias manner in the processing of its skilled worker applications and applying different standards of evaluation of skilled worker files. This is the precise definition of systemic discrimination and it has to stop immediately."
This part of Mr Mokhtari&#۳۹;s new letter to the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Mr. Jason Kenney, clearly shows what is happening now in CIO and why taking a quick action is vital for everybody who believes in Canada and Canadian values.
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By Ali Mokhtari
Given the admirable decision made by Canadian Immigration Office to modify the federal skilled worker selection system, Canpars Immigration Services, INC. with cooperation of a team of experts and benefiting from experience gained by working on hundreds of immigration files, is going to give some suggestions in order to improve the system. These suggestions are based on three principles as follows:
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"... Since then, not only has the Damascus office not examined the files in a 6 to 12 months period, but this period has been increased to more than two years..." This is a part of Mr Mokhtari's letter to the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Mr. Jason Kenney, about the current situation in the Canada Office visa in Damascus. The letter is also launched as an online petition for public access.
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By Ali Mokhtari
Since the investment program of Quebec is currently closed, the applicants for that program will have to wait for the second edition of the law ratified in June 26, 2010. With the issuance of this law - which was supposed to be issued on October 26 but is said to be planned for the late fall - both the government of Quebec and the federal government will open their investment programs.
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Majid Bastami
When looking for information online, one must consider: Is a certain informational product guaranteed to be reliable and used to organize activities/make decisions just because it is published in a governmental site?
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By Neshat Tehrani
As you know, in the province of Quebec both French and English are recognized as a formal language. Usually, immigrants are more familiar with English and it seems that a good understanding of English versus French as a second language is easier for Farsi-speaking people.
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