 Hi everyone, welcome back to our YouTube channel. My name is Jolie Greenbaum. I'm the executive assistant at Kearick Immigration Law. And today we're going to be discussing the importance of updating your agency application, otherwise known as the humanitarian and compassionate application. So at our office, we typically submit updates for agency applications every six months. And the main reason for that being that the processing time for these applications are quite long, ranging from roughly one to two years. However, given the current pandemic situation, the processing time can even exceed two years because of the backlogs with IRCC. And it's important to keep in mind that the main essence of an HNC application is to demonstrate an applicant's establishment in Canada. So given what I just said before about processing times, we would need to demonstrate to the officer that throughout the processing of this application that the applicant continues to establish themselves in Canada. So what we do is that every six months, we work with our clients to gather more supporting documents, demonstrating their continued establishment in Canada. So what that might look like would be collecting documents regarding volunteer work, community work, taking courses in Canada, English language courses, French language courses, different technical courses potentially, children being admitted into different schools in Canada, stuff like that to show that the applicants are continuing to integrate within Canadian society. And it's important that if when you initially submitted your application, you didn't have enough time to gather all these supporting documents that would fully demonstrate your establishment in Canada, these six months updates give us as a firm an opportunity to gather those documents with you and submit them to immigration. And they give you as an applicant the opportunity to continue to take part in these establishment activities that you can do in Canada, such as I mentioned before, community work, volunteer work, and stuff like that. Because activities like this and physical proof that we can submit that to immigration will only strengthen your application. And by submitting these updates every six months, it very clearly demonstrates that you as an applicant are one, continuing to establish yourself, and two, that you're dedicated and committed to becoming a permanent resident of Canada. And this is what ultimately helps our applicants stand out from other applicants that don't submit updates for humanitarian and compassionate applications. So if you have any questions regarding agency applications, please do not hesitate to contact our office and we'll be more than happy to assist you. Thank you for watching and we'll see you next time.