“Just open the package and you will see this person qualifies.'
I can accept at the beginning of the pandemic, they were figuring things out, but now we’re six months in and that doesn’t wash anymore as an excuse.Some of Fultz’s clients have a single step left in their permanent residency applications, which is submitting new biometrics, including fingerprints and a photo, even though most already went through the process when they first arrived in Canada.
NDP MP and immigration critic Jenny Kwan said her Vancouver constituency office is handling an “avalanche” of cases involving people whose applications, like Bahadur’s, aren’t being processed in a timely manner — from asylum seekers whose interviews have been cancelled to a student applying for permanent residency who is waiting on biometrics.
“Nawaf’s story highlights IRCC’s inability to be flexible and it’s impacting people’s lives,” Kwan said. “I can accept at the beginning of the pandemic, they were figuring things out, but now we’re six months in and that doesn’t wash anymore as an excuse.
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