Mendicino visited the Vancouver Office of the British Columbia Star Island daily on Thursday and received an exclusive interview. Marco Mendicino, the Federal Minister for immigration, refugees and citizenship, said the country's immigration plans were on the rise, but declined to disclose the annual quota for the future, which would not be released until mid March.

1.The policy of "birth citizenship" will not be changed. It will only strengthen the supervision of immigration consultants and prevent abuse.

In addition, although Canada's "birth citizenship" is suspected of being abused by "birth tourism", he reiterated that Canada has no plan to modify this policy, but will take some concrete steps to strengthen the supervision of immigration consultants and curb the abuse of the system.

When asked about Richmond's popularity as a "fertility tourism" destination, up to 23% of them are in Richmond hospital When the parents of infants born in hospital are non residents, mendizino reiterated that the federal government does not intend to change the basic principle of being a Canadian citizen when they are born in Canada, but will take some concrete steps to strengthen the supervision of immigration consultants and hold those who try to "go through the back door" or abuse the immigration system accountable.

2. The policy of reuniting immigrants was announced in mid March.

As for this year's federal immigration target figures and when to reopen the application for reuniting parents and grandparents, Mendicino said that it would probably not be announced until the middle of March, because before he announced it, he had to send the plan to the Congress for review, and believed that it would have results in six weeks, when he would come back to BC to make the announcement and accept media questions. But he said that in recent years, the overall trend of immigration plans is increasing, and the speed of immigration approval is also accelerating, including the speed of citizenship approval has been greatly improved than before

3. Super visa can also be reunited, do not stare at the way to reunite immigrants.

As a new immigration minister who has been in office for several months, mendizino pointed out that he would further study and improve the application acceptance model of last year. On the one hand, he would understand the total demand of this category, and on the other hand, he would remind people of the advantages of "super visa" in two ways Purpose of family reunion.

4. Harry Megan immigrants also have to apply.

When it comes to the possibility that Prince Harry and his wife Megan may settle in Canada, Mendicino said that he had heard about it, but he would treat it equally and would not give more attention to this case than other application cases, and the Harry and his wife's application would be followed in the same way as other cases. He said that as the Minister of immigration, he focused on promoting the development of the whole country through immigration.