strange!lost the PR status but CIC ask me to attend the citzenship hearing???!!!

[waokool]

Hello,everyone,

I landed in Canada in 12 2000,left Canada in 5,2004,and didn't return since then. Yet I applied the citizenship before I left the country. I missed the citizenship test and the citizenship hearing also. I thought I may have no chance to get the citizenship any more. But my friend in Canada told me yesterday that CIC asked me to attend the citizenship hearing. I'm thinking if I should go there because actually I have lost the PR status. The notice for the hearing is simply a mistake or what? I don't want to go there to hear you are not qualified for the citizenship beacause your PR has been losted.

Please tell me if I still have the chance to obtain the citizenship? Thanks a lot.

[Leon]

The system works slowly.  Maybe they do not realize that you lost your PR status.  Maybe they will let you become citizen because at the time you applied for citizenship, you did qualify for it.  No way to tell.  You can try to contact the embassy or CIC and ask about it that way.

[Leopard]

I would suggest you obtain a travel document or the RX-1 visa and go for hearing . As leon said the time you applied for citizenship you did qualify for citizenship . The hearing is about why you missed the first test and hearing . Give it a try .

[waokool]

leon and Leopard,thank you for the advice. I want to contact the CIC, but couldn't because the 888 number only works in Canda. Do you happen to know  how to contact the CIC. Thank you all.