Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Ministerial Powers

Citizenship And Immigration Dept: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced he was using his ministerial powers to allow them to stay because a computer glitch issued them visas by mistake, according to Montreal Gazette. It was an administrative error on the part of my ministry, Kenney said, noting Citizenship and Immigration is changing its IT system and in the process, some visas were issued automatically by mistake and oTTAWA About 150 newcomers got lucky Wednesday after the government decided to grant them permanent residency even though their immigration applications were unceremoniously tossed thanks to the recent budget. The move comes after some of the people had already arrived in Canada, including a Moroccan family that showed up at the airport in Montreal on Friday only to learn their visas were invalid, according to a report by the French language newspaper La Presse. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.