Recent content by lifein360

Good lord. Everyone in condos and apartments has received their certificates folded inside their tiny mailboxes. Just set it aside flat and it'll be fine in a few days

50% of the questions on this site can be answered with common sense. Yet people ask because they want the satisfaction and relief that comes when someone confirms their understanding

You can always postpone your oath. Travel plans won’t be considered I am afraid. Everyone then will then request urgent processing and truly urgent applications don’t get prioritized. Now I don’t know the criteria of what constitutes urgent but travel plans definitely don’t

You can go to your nearest FRRO to extend your visa. That would be the correct approach than entering and exiting India using different documents.

You will need to come back to Canada to take your oath, receive your citizenship certificate and apply for passport and - if needed - apply for visa for your home country again. This may take 4-6 weeks possibly to complete at minimum. I dont think IRCC will resume in person testing in 2022 with...

How does said Indian passport holder expect to re-enter canada once travelled to India?

Oof, good luck to all of you waiting at 5 AM in Brampton for walk-in. I went in October and it was chilly even then at 6 AM. FYI, if you reach later than 6:30-7 AM, you'll be waiting for lonngggg if you have no appt

Great callouts all around. I would recommend in person only because say you missed a document or forgot something, you have the chance to correct it there and then by using the printing facilities or come back the next day. The big challenge is getting there by 6 AM and the weather especially...

nope. Only foreign passport and OCI

This is great news. Finally someone saw the light. This change is just going to increase volume at BLS. Not sure if they have any operations folks at BLS- why would they want to increase what should be 1 visit into two. Unless it was a scheme to extract more fees from us in some way In fact...

Yes - as long as you have already surrendered

This thread is nearly 4 years old. I doubt the person will respond See this post https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/oci-process.254662/post-9845599 and then see the continuing discussion. Long story short - you maybe able to travel to India with your...

Nope. Surrender first, then OCI

Thanks @cecapplied @imm01 This really needs to be pinned in bold at the top. With many getting oaths now and having travel plans for the holidays, everybody will be looking to understand how they can travel now that they are Canadian citizens. Someone somewhere on some whatsapp or facebook...

This isn’t a small matter. Do your own research and not rely on this forum alone