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Further Observations & Explanation: One of the requirements for a grant of citizenship is compliance with Canada's tax filing laws for at least three of the previous five tax years (as of the date the application for citizenship is made). If you are already familiar with this, that probably...

When asking questions about immigration and citizenship applications in Canada, it is really important to have looked at the application form and the instructions. Many questions are answered by just doing that. If you have not looked at IRCC's online information regarding applying for...

This will go long, as too often my posts tend to go. For you in particular, @ParulB, some of my comments may seen critical, perhaps even harsh. Sorry, but you deserve to see what you might be up against, what you may need to deal with, and thus a chance to approach this more realistically. I...

I meant no disapproval at all, but rather an acknowledgement that your query was indeed suggestive of (loaded with) a lot of what-ifs, if-this-then-that but if-that-then-this, and so on, and not just casually alluding to abstract hypotheticals, but real issues . . . . . . or as I said, borrowing...

Various things do not add up. For PR Query as to RO credit: Assuming the citizenship certificate question was for someone other than the PR making this Residency Obligation query . . . addressing the person making the RO query: December 2021 through late April 2024 adds up to well over 840...

I cannot see how this is relevant to the subject of this thread, regarding whether the proposed changes in regulations governing the oath of citizenship are likely to be implemented allowing for the oath to be "self-administered," or the tangent regarding what that would mean . . . in regards to...

Odds are the application has gone into a queue to be handled in the same processing stream as mailed-in applications, such that a processing agent will open and begin actually processing the application around five to six weeks or so (based on currently published processing time, which is 57...

At the risk of addressing out-of-context cherry-picked phrases from general government information about the history and culture of Canada . . . The "king reigns" but does NOT rule, does not govern? Did I mention, in regards to there being no doubt that NO king or queen reigns as a power in...

Perhaps you could benefit from reading the proposed regulation again (which I linked). There is no mention at all in the revised regulation (which, while it was proposed with the expectation it would be adopted, at this stage it is clear it is NOT going to be adopted let alone implemented any...

To be clear, despite many (including some major media outlets) describing proposed regulatory changes as implementing a self-administered oath, the February 2023 proposed changes to the Citizenship regulations governing the administration of the oath required to become a Canadian citizen did not...

This is intended to be a reference thread. I have titled it "Criminal Inadmissibility" but anticipate it will include discussions with references that are about security inadmissibility. And related issues. Thus, for example, here is a reference and link to the statutory provision that...

This is an excellent summary. Spot on.

The more severe triage criteria, and particularly the draconian application of the consultant, self-employed, unemployed criteria, was only used for a fairly short period of time, 2012 and 2013. In that period of time just using an identification, like a drivers' license, that had been issued...

The citation to applicable rules is appreciated and helps fill in some gaps. As I noted above, however, "this is at a level of procedure I am NOT at all familiar with." I am a little more informed now about the procedure, and in that regard your description of the process in your situation also...

Status Obtained As Dependent Versus Primary Applicant for Protection: This is definitely a question for which YOUR LAWYER is a better resource. That said, my sense is that in MOST cases, those who are PR-refugees are subject to the provisions for cessation of status EVEN IF they obtained...