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November 2024 - Citizenship Applications

Major2710 said:
Just gonna wait out the processing time period and the contact np to get real answers if any

The notes have my file due time stamp at November 2026 which is beyond the year mark
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I don’t think MPs can do anything anymore can they?
 
JEI-CAN said:
Update:

Type: Online application
Location: Ottawa
Physical Presence Days: 1098
Application: Family (1 adult 1 minor):
Application sent: 25 November
Delivered: 25 November
AOR: 4 December
Background Completed: 23 January 2025
Test Invitation 24 January, test time window 31 January - 2 March 2025
Test taken 1 February 2025 - passed (19/20)
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Update:

The Oath: 3 June 2025
Passport received 6 June 2025.

Mission completed! I got the Citizenship! I hope good luck to everyone. This forum has been a great resource of all kind of information. Here is couple of advice I could give myself if I could go back in time 7 years:

- When PR, do your days as soon as possible. For many people, it is possible, that something happens and you have leave Canada for long time. This happened to me too, and I ended up into situation I wasn't able to travel outside Canada at all.
- When applying PR or Citizenship, check your application again and again before submitting, and ask someone to do additional check. Any mistake will likely add couple of months for processing time.
- Be realistic about job market in Canada. You need to be really highly skilled professional to get a good job easily.
- Consider areas where living costs are lower than in big cities
- Start working with your healthcare in day one when you arrive in Canada. Understanding the system takes likely more time what you think.
- Start working with local connections also in day one. For me, it was joining a local gym, where I met people I still hang out with.
- Find some voluntary work too.
 
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USProgrammer said:
When was your LPP complete? When did you receive your oath invite?
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LPP was completed 23 January 2025. I got the Oath invite mid-May 2025. 2-3 weeks before the Oath. It was online Oath.

For some reason, I cannot log in anymore to the application tracker.. Is it normal after the Oath? I have seen screenshots where the tracker says the application is closed.
 
JEI-CAN said:
LPP was completed 23 January 2025. I got the Oath invite mid-May 2025. 2-3 weeks before the Oath. It was online Oath.

For some reason, I cannot log in anymore to the application tracker.. Is it normal after the Oath? I have seen screenshots where the tracker says the application is closed.
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Well that sucks. I was hoping they were doing LPPs again. My wife’s test was complete in February and nothing since then.

I can still login to the tracker as a citizen.
 
Major2710 said:
Because they ignoring old files and completing new ones faster and I am pissed off
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Not sure if that is true. I feel Vancouver office files are stuck and I only have my exam marked as passed, everything else is in progress.
A perspective here is that the citizenship applications always took 11-12 months prior to this wave of crazy fast application processing. I feel it is a waiting game now. I agree with @USProgrammer that if the timeline goes beyond a year or processing time, then you can take legal route. Also, per my last call with IRCC, they mentioned my BG is in progress and there is no processing time for it. You just gotta wait it out.
 
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aman0312 said:
Not sure if that is true. I feel Vancouver office files are stuck and I only have my exam marked as passed, everything else is in progress.
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Someone got info from IRCC that Vancouver processes all BG checks for files. So in most cases, it's more likely that the background check is slow/stuck, rather than that 'Vancouver' (as in the regional office working on / allocated local files) is slow or stuck.

Put differently: think of Vancouver as the background check office.* Within that office, there is *probably* a local files/ceremony function separate. But for most applicants who think they have a delay, it's more likely to be the backgound check function, not the 'local' part.

*If, of course, this info is correct.
 
armoured said:
Someone got info from IRCC that Vancouver processes all BG checks for files. So in most cases, it's more likely that the background check is slow/stuck, rather than that 'Vancouver' (as in the regional office working on / allocated local files) is slow or stuck.

Put differently: think of Vancouver as the background check office.* Within that office, there is *probably* a local files/ceremony function separate. But for most applicants who think they have a delay, it's more likely to be the backgound check function, not the 'local' part.

*If, of course, this info is correct.
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What about LPP? Are those processed in Vancouver as well?
 
armoured said:
Someone got info from IRCC that Vancouver processes all BG checks for files. So in most cases, it's more likely that the background check is slow/stuck, rather than that 'Vancouver' (as in the regional office working on / allocated local files) is slow or stuck.

Put differently: think of Vancouver as the background check office.* Within that office, there is *probably* a local files/ceremony function separate. But for most applicants who think they have a delay, it's more likely to be the backgound check function, not the 'local' part.

*If, of course, this info is correct.
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My wife's bg is complete, since before the test. And test has been complete since Feb 18. No LPP since then.
 
armoured said:
As responded on another, I presume BG and prohibitions run out of same team; don't know. I believe language and physical presence can be other offices.
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Sorry - to clarify one bit. It's clearly not quite as simple as this, but in a way that boils down to (in my opinion, reading between lines) BG/prohibitions main decision point likely being done by same team (related tasks).

Speculation follows: it's fairly clear they have some kind of risk-based evaluation for prohibitions. Most applicants are low risk, and I'd guess the BG process gives some kind of low-risk evaluation to most. (Probably some similar triage approach for physical presence, too, and possibly for language). Those all -probably - get moved on to some processing centre where they're checked and approved (some normal type of tiered authority), and that's why LPP tends to get cleared all at once (possibly meaning recommendation to finalize, possibly some more senior person signing off depending on if any complications). Checks for the low-risk ones are presumably just fairly basic check-against-record and the paperwork matches the triage summary. A 'second set of eyes' for discrepancies. Prohibitions with the other two because it was considered low-risk.

What happens to files that are flagged out for 'complicated' prohibitions? I don't know - they might be held in Vancouver or something more complicated - possibly held until more clarity on prohibitions. (Could well be a couple different levels depending on what reasons are)

I think for files where 'physical presence' is flagged for more detailed check (and possibly/presumably no issues on BG / prohibitions), then interview or other checks done and physical presence can clear before others. (Instead of all three at once). I've seen this with a family member's file.

This is some guesswork, yes. But to me it explains to significant degree why Vancouver seems slow.
 
armoured said:
As responded on another, I presume BG and prohibitions run out of same team; don't know. I believe language and physical presence can be other offices.
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When prohibitions was holding it up, I recall seeing others with that indicated in the tracker and GCMS. Like LP would be complete with the other P in progress.
 
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USProgrammer said:
When prohibitions was holding it up, I recall seeing others with that indicated in the tracker and GCMS. Like LP would be complete with the other P in progress.
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I wish I knew if people are updating the sheet or not. If they are or would, there are no LPP's happening since late March for Oct/Nov applicants. If people have just given up and gone away, this (lack of) data cannot be trusted.

They are doing LPPs for more recent applicants in 2025, in the same kind of number of days as they did for me and others. I don't know how their system works at all, so I don't know if applications are lost under the couch cushions or if they have been referred for some kind of non-routine processing.

It's really frustrating that IRCC/GC won't give us any real information, especially with something of this level of importance.
 
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USProgrammer said:
I wish I knew if people are updating the sheet or not. If they are or would, there are no LPP's happening since late March for Oct/Nov applicants. If people have just given up and gone away, this (lack of) data cannot be trusted.

They are doing LPPs for more recent applicants in 2025, in the same kind of number of days as they did for me and others. I don't know how their system works at all, so I don't know if applications are lost under the couch cushions or if they have been referred for some kind of non-routine processing.

It's really frustrating that IRCC/GC won't give us any real information, especially with something of this level of importance.
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Agreed it would be good to know if we can even trust the data as honestly I haven’t even gone to update anything on the drive cause I haven’t no updates and wonder if people just get excited and forget to update it anyway


Thinking of calling ircc as I do maybe once a month but now even thinking about not calling them cause it’s just a waste of time
 
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