Citizenship Application: Alexis Pavlich

Canadian Citizenship Dept: According to the federal budget tabled Thursday, the government will modernize the fee structure for both citizenship and temporary resident visas for tourists, international students and workers to enable the minister to set fees in a timely and efficient manner, according to Montreal Gazette. As a result, the $200 fee which applicants currently pay only covers 20 per cent of the actual cost to process a citizenship application, she said. This means that Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing 80 per cent of the actual processing costs and OTTAWA Application fees for Canadian citizenship could as much as double as the government seeks to rein in skyrocketing processing costs. Alexis Pavlich, a spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, said the cost of processing citizenship applications has gone up but the fees have remained the same for nearly 20 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.