Visa Officers: McMaster University Professor Vic Satzewich

McMaster University professor Vic Satzewich: McMaster University professor Vic Satzewich was given rare access by Citizenship and Immigration Canada inside Canadas overseas visa posts to examine how visa officers used their discretionary power to decide who deserved to join their spouses here, according to The Star. Between 2010 and 2012, Satzewich was granted site visits at 11 visa offices in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia to observe how individual immigration applications were processed. He interviewed 128 frontline officers and managers on how they reached their decisions and It is always a mystery how immigration officials come to the conclusion if a marriage is genuine or fake, but now a new study has shed light on the inner thinking of the decision-makers. Satzewich is believed to be only the second Canadian researcher in 50 years being granted such access to what he calls the immigration departments black box, after the late University of Toronto professor Freda Hawkins did her field research at the visa posts in Europe in 1964 to study immigrations frontline operations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.