Nightmare cic offices for citizenship processing and can they be avoided?

[AllisonVSC]

I have been reading on the forum that some offices are notoriously bad for processing citizenship applications- Toronto's St Claire office comes immediately to mind. What are the other offices with appalling reputations?

And in a somewhat related question...how is it determined which office will process your application? Is it based on where you live (mailing address), or can you make a request for a specific office, or is it based on something else entirely?

I currently live in Mississauga, ON. I'm just curious...will I have to deal with St Claire if I am still living here when I apply?

Thanks, Allison

[PMM]

Hi

I have been reading on the forum that some offices are notoriously bad for processing citizenship applications- Toronto's St Claire office comes immediately to mind. What are the other offices with appalling reputations?

And in a somewhat related question...how is it determined which office will process your application? Is it based on where you live (mailing address), or can you make a request for a specific office, or is it based on something else entirely?

I currently live in Mississauga, ON. I'm just curious...will I have to deal with St Claire if I am still living here when I apply?

Thanks, Allison

1.  You have no choice, it is based on your mailing address and there is a Citizenship office in Mississauga.

[Alabaman]

I have been reading on the forum that some offices are notoriously bad for processing citizenship applications- Toronto's St Claire office comes immediately to mind. What are the other offices with appalling reputations?

And in a somewhat related question...how is it determined which office will process your application? Is it based on where you live (mailing address), or can you make a request for a specific office, or is it based on something else entirely?

I currently live in Mississauga, ON. I'm just curious...will I have to deal with St Claire if I am still living here when I apply?

Thanks, Allison

I wonder if someone can use a different mailing address in another province say Manitoba or Saskatchewan so to make the processing faster.

[Baloo]

I wonder if someone can use a different mailing address in another province say Manitoba or Saskatchewan so to make the processing faster.

If you move there, sure

[Alabaman]

If you move there, sure

and if you dont?

[Baloo]

and if you dont?

This is Canada, you know that there will be a rule against doing that LOL

[steaky]

This is Canada, you know that there will be a rule against doing that LOL

What rule? Someone might lives primary in Toronto and has a seasonal cottage somewhere in Alberta.  Can't that person use the Alberta address as the mailing address?

[PMM]

Hi

and if you dont?

So it means you falsify your citizenship application as to where you have lived and worked?  Guess what happens then.

[Baloo]

What rule? Someone might lives primary in Toronto and has a seasonal cottage somewhere in Alberta.  Can't that person use the Alberta address as the mailing address?

My comment was humour, note the smiley

But note PMM's comment, that is serious.

[AllisonVSC]

Any offices with reputations as bad as St Claire's?

Glad to hear that I would deal with the Mississauga office. Curious, if you lived mostly in the area covered by St Claire, but actually moved (for real not just to fake it) to a new area a few months before applying, would they process based on your new residential address or would you get assigned to St Claire since you "mostly" lived there for the period leading up to applying?