What are the parties promising on Immigration Process?

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Immigration Process platforms

Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

Make the citizenship application process free for permanent residents who have fulfilled the requirements needed to obtain it.
Implement a program to issue visas to spouses & children abroad while they wait for processing of their permanent residency application.

Reduce processing times that have been impacted by COVID-19 to under 12 months.

Introduce electronic applications for family reunification.

Implement a program to issue visas to spouses and children abroad while they wait for the processing of their permanent residency application, so that families can be together sooner.

— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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Conservative

Record all interactions between immigration officers & applicants to ensure oversight, fairness, & accountability.
Use technology to speed application vetting.
Increase cultural awareness training.
Use remote meeting technology to match applicants with immigration officers who best understand their cultural context.
Let applicants correct simple application mistakes within a set amount of time.

• Moving the technological infrastructure of immigration online and recording all interactions between immigration officers and applicants to help ensure oversight, fairness, and accountability.

• Introducing technology to speed application vetting by immigration officers.

• Increasing cultural awareness training and using remote meeting technology to match applicants with immigration officers who best understand the cultural context of the applicant.

• Letting applicants correct simple and honest mistakes in an application within a set amount of time.

° Currently, if a person makes an error in an application, the application is rejected, and the person is required to re-submit the application entirely.

— Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

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We don't have any Bloc policies on Immigration Process.

NDP

Regulate the immigration consultancy industry.

Green

Update the citizenship guidebook to include a more accurate history of Canada & Turtle Island, including residential schools & the Indian Act.
Address all forms of hate & xenophobia in all aspects of settlement in Canada.
Introduce exceptions for permanent residency & citizenship application costs based on household income.

1. Update the citizenship guidebook

● Update the citizenship guidebook to include a more accurate history of Canada and Turtle Island that includes the harms of residential schools and the Indian Act.

2. Address all forms of hate and xenophobia in all aspects of settlement in Canada

● Address xenophobia in all aspects of settlement, including temporary visa liberalization, issuing of temporary permits (study, work, visit, etc.) and family reunification (including increasing capacity for family sponsorship and revision of adoption processes)

— Be Daring., retrieved 2021-09-11

Introduce exceptions for permanent residency and citizenship application costs based on household income (for many refugees, the $1,000 application fee for citizenship is unaffordable).

— Be Daring., retrieved 2021-09-11

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