December 2014 citizenship applicants!

[abemats2000]

Congrats to all who are seeing progress on their applications... Mississauga was moving quite fast. However the CIC office seems to be in some coma now. Nothing yet for so many days!!!! One more day for this week and then the wait starts all over again next week. My Canada Post person must be really happy to see my empty mailbox everyday since I am clearing my physical mail on a daily basis!!! ;D

 

[tsooma]

Congrats on your progress. All the best for the test and interview

Dear Tsooma
Good News now prepare yourself for test & interview.Best of Luck

Thanks guys! Really appreciated. The way I see things going we might even become Canadians before/on Canada Day

 

[FJK]

arrrmin, Congraaaaats and best of luck..can you tell me how did you get notified about the test? mail or e-case update?

 

[FJK]

Thanks guys! Really appreciated. The way I see things we might even become Canadians before/on Canada Day

Congraaaaaats and best of luck how were you notified ? mail or e-case update?

So so happy for you guys

 

[Kovachum]

I called CIC call center yesterday as well as today, and both times I got the same answer from the respective call center agent. As of Monday 4th May, the Call center agents have been directed not to access ecas for anyone whose process has not reached 24months due to a lot of calls to the call center.

I am not sure if anyone else has received similar answer. I know the regular by the book answer from some agents saying you have to wait for 24months but both these agents were specific about the direction given to them on Monday 4th May.Though Kovachum in his post managed to get a reply from call center agent :-[

Yes , I did. There are many others who got response in other threads.

May be you are catching the agent wrong time. I suggest don't call every day though.

Agent was very polite and helpful. She verified all my details and gave me the update.

 

[tsooma]

Congraaaaaats and best of luck how were you notified ? mail or e-case update?

So so happy for you guys

By mail, it's not on ecas yet.

 

[arrrmin]

arrrmin, Congraaaaats and best of luck..can you tell me how did you get notified about the test? mail or e-case update?

Hey FJK, I just got a mail today!

 

[arrrmin]

By the way, I was wondering...in the letter that I received it stated that the test duration should be approx 3hours, does that mean that the oath will be on the same day it's the normal test duration?

 

[thecoolguysam]

By the way, I was wondering...in the letter that I received it stated that the test duration should be approx 3hours, does that mean that the oath will be on the same day it's the normal test duration?

If the oath is held same day then there would be additional letter mentioning that the oath may be on the same day.
Did you receive an additional letter along with test invite?
Usually the test and interview process is around 2-3 hours because there are lots of people during the test and everyone has to go through interview one by one. There are usually 5-10 citizenship officers to take interview.

If you are Montreal, you might get oath same day but I am not too sure as I am from west coast. I have seen some Montreal applicants getting oath same day but not everyone in this forum.

 

[thecoolguysam]

December applicants are moving fast. Congratulations to everyone who have got test/interview invite. Study well and score 20/20 and pass the interview in high spirits. Cheers!

 

[francorm]

Folks: I just checked my status and find out that my application is in process since 2 days ago.

"We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on December 19, 2014.
We sent you a letter acknowledging receipt of your application(s) on March 29, 2015. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
We started processing your application on May 5, 2015."
Funny thing is that May 5th is a Mexican holiday, probably CIC agents waited until that day to move my application It seems to me a slow process, yet happily ongoing. Can anybody explain to me the next steps and predict how long it will take?

 

[thecoolguysam]

Folks: I just checked my status and find out that my application is in process since 2 days ago.

"We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on December 19, 2014.
We sent you a letter acknowledging receipt of your application(s) on March 29, 2015. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
We started processing your application on May 5, 2015."
Funny thing is that May 5th is a Mexican holiday, probably CIC agents waited until that day to move my application It seems to me a slow process, yet happily ongoing. Can anybody explain to me the next steps and predict how long it will take?

Now the file would be transferred to your local office in few days and if all goes well you will get test invite. If they have doubt they can issue a RQ while the application is in Sydney or once it gets transferred to your local office. They may ask for additional documentation as well.
The process duration is unpredictable however, here is link for december applicants where you can see the progress of the people's application (December applicants only):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v0SdRO40z3jpI11rJ2I_sKk88ph1FeqrTczi_9Kb6us/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Hopefully the process goes smooth for you and I hope you don't get RQ.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[francorm]

Now the file would be transferred to your local office in few days and if all goes well you will get test invite. If they have doubt they can issue a RQ while the application is in Sydney or once it gets transferred to your local office. They may ask for additional documentation as well.
The process duration is unpredictable however, here is link for december applicants where you can see the progress of the people's application (December applicants only):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v0SdRO40z3jpI11rJ2I_sKk88ph1FeqrTczi_9Kb6us/edit?pli=1#gid=0

Hopefully the process goes smooth for you and I hope you don't get RQ.

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for your reply. I hope the process goes smooth too. Statistics show that the average from IP to Transfer local office is 10 days, I hope fall within that.

 

[neptune01]

Good morning,

I found my status has been updated to In Process few minutes earlier.

 

[trunorth]

Hey guys, i'm glad to see that the december applications are going pretty fast so far!

I just received my test invitation today for the 04/27

Congrats arrrmin! Hope you get oath on the same day!

By the way, do you mean 05/27?

Also I was just seeing your timeline on the spreadsheet and you did not get a notification on transferred date? Also on the spreadsheet there is a note of an RQ? Is that you?

Please update the spreadsheet? Thanks!