To apply for dual citizenship of US born minors - do they need to hold PR Card before? Thanks
Could you define naturalized Canadian citizen? For your information - I am mom and will be becoming Canadian citizen. Do I have to apply for PR Card before? Dad is PR holder
Right now it's too late for her to apply as a minor, her only option is to apply as an adult now. Sending a new application for minor under 5(1) and adding a LOE won't help.Back in 2019, I assisted a friend's daughter to apply for citizenship using what we thought was the correct form for minors, CIT 0003 (subsection 5-2). She was 17 at the time. Fast forward to April 2021, when she finally received some news about her application. And of course, in the interim, she has had two birthdays and is now 19. In the letter, they apologized for the long delay, but said that because neither of her parents are Canadian citizens, she is not eligible to apply under Subsection 5-2, and that now that she is an adult she must apply using the adult application, which means having to pay an additional $530.
It was only then that we realized that she should have applied using CIT 0403 (subsection 5-1), which we had not even noticed on the website previously, as the 5-2 version (CIT 0003) is the only one that came up when doing a search for the application for minors. Although in part 8 of the CIT 0003 version that my friend's daughter used which asks about the Canadian citizenship of her parents, she left the section blank because they are not yet Canadian citizens. Nowhere on that form does it say "if your parents are not Canadian citizens, use CIT 0403, subsection 5-1", or words to that effect. That would certainly have been helpful and we would have eventually found the right form and submitted that instead. Or IRCC could have notified my friend that his daughter had used the wrong form and give them an opportunity to submit the correct form within a certain time frame, even if she had already turned 18.
Trying to speak to an IRCC agent at the 888 number has been futile so far, due to the huge call volume and the confusing menu options. So I'm wondering if anyone on this site could advise us what to do. Would submitting a CIT 0403 (subsection 5-1) application, back-dated to 2019, along with a copy of her original 0003 (subsection 5-2), together with a detailed letter of explanation be worthwhile? Or is applying as an adult and trying to come up with the extra money (not easy to do for this family) really her only choice now? Thanks in advance for any help.
Right now it's too late for her to apply as a minor, her only option is to apply as an adult now. Sending a new application for minor under 5(1) and adding a LOE won't help.
Good luck!
It just seems such a shame that this girl was in fact eligible to apply as a minor and now 18 months of waiting have been wasted because we were not aware that a slightly different form should have been submitted.
Sorry, but it is the applicant's responsibility to verify that he/she is using the correct form. It's clearly written in the instructions for CIT-0003 that if applying under 5(2), one parent must be a citizen or is applying for their citizenship at the same time of the minor. If you are feeling guilty for misleading the family into using the wrong application, perhaps you could help by giving them the additional $530 needed to make up the difference; seems only fair.
Back in 2019, I assisted a friend's daughter to apply for citizenship using what we thought was the correct form for minors, CIT 0003 (subsection 5-2). She was 17 at the time. Fast forward to April 2021, when she finally received some news about her application. And of course, in the interim, she has had two birthdays and is now 19. In the letter, they apologized for the long delay, but said that because neither of her parents are Canadian citizens, she is not eligible to apply under Subsection 5-2, and that now that she is an adult she must apply using the adult application, which means having to pay an additional $530.
It was only then that we realized that she should have applied using CIT 0403 (subsection 5-1), which we had not even noticed on the website previously, as the 5-2 version (CIT 0003) is the only one that came up when doing a search for the application for minors. Although in part 8 of the CIT 0003 version that my friend's daughter used which asks about the Canadian citizenship of her parents, she left the section blank because they are not yet Canadian citizens. Nowhere on that form does it say "if your parents are not Canadian citizens, use CIT 0403, subsection 5-1", or words to that effect. That would certainly have been helpful and we would have eventually found the right form and submitted that instead. Or IRCC could have notified my friend that his daughter had used the wrong form and give them an opportunity to submit the correct form within a certain time frame, even if she had already turned 18.
Trying to speak to an IRCC agent at the 888 number has been futile so far, due to the huge call volume and the confusing menu options. So I'm wondering if anyone on this site could advise us what to do. Would submitting a CIT 0403 (subsection 5-1) application, back-dated to 2019, along with a copy of her original 0003 (subsection 5-2), together with a detailed letter of explanation be worthwhile? Or is applying as an adult and trying to come up with the extra money (not easy to do for this family) really her only choice now? Thanks in advance for any help.
@Yelsew Did you mean you helped her to apply for Canadian citizenship under 5(2) without an accompanying parent also applying for citizenship? Or was her application in accompaniment of one or both parents's citizenship application too? If it is the former, I think there is no recourse. If it is the latter, then her application is valid, although not sure how it works with the almost 2 years delay in processing.