This week Jenniger Roggemann was interviewed on the CBC Radio show “The Morning Edition” on the state of Canadian immigration in the face of Covid restrictions.
Here’s an excerpt from that article:
The federal government’s plan to bring 400,000 immigrants into the country this year is a good goal, but they also need to address a massive backlog created during the pandemic of people waiting in the system, says a Kitchener immigration lawyer.
Jennifer Roggemann said every person immigrating to Canada has to do a fingerprint. That has to be done in person and between March and July of 2020, the buildings where people could do that were closed. Even after they were open, there were people waiting for their turn.
She said one client who applied for a study permit last July couldn’t give a fingerprint safely until last week.
“So the last six, eight months, that file was just pending,” she said.
She said the federal government has changed the way it does business and must all be done virtually. And other rules put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 are impacting people who want to come here.