April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

[abff08f4813c]

If you don't have travel plans expired passport wont cause any issues. It does not impact your PR status nor ongoing citizenship application.

Agreed. I am hard pressed to think where one would actually need a passport outside of travel, where alternative ID is not available.

ICBC (to get a health care or driver's license in BC) is good with the PR card + a bank card or credit card, https://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing/visit-dl-office/Accepted-ID

In Ontario, DriveTest is good with just the PR card, https://drivetest.ca/licences/acceptable-id-documents/

So is Services Ontario, https://www.ontario.ca/page/acceptable-identity-documents

Even if your citizenship app takes so long that you end up having to renew your PR card (to make it easier to renew other things like your DL while living in Canada), well, even then it seems you don't have to renew your passport just for that, as you can just provide your passport when you applied for PR (even if it's expired/no longer valid I guess) according to https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...acement-renewal-change-gender-identifier.html

A copy of one of the following primary identity documents:

• your valid passport or travel document or
• the passport or travel document you had when you became a permanent resident (if applicable, include the passport page that was stamped when you arrived in Canada and became a permanent resident)

 

[bassamkaaki]

Hey good to see your file progressed so far, i applied on April 29th as well and AOR was May 29, but test timeline is 1 week later than yours so hoping to get an update soon.

I applied April 29 as well, AOR June 4. Test invitation July 8, did test July 11, test showed completed on July 16. However, the test complete update showed on tracker August 13th with the last big update. Next would be background then LPP’s. Hope too its nearing BG complete and later LPP’s.

 

[Jaikisan Vaswani]

I applied April 29 as well, AOR June 4. Test invitation July 8, did test July 11, test showed completed on July 16. However, the test complete update showed on tracker August 13th with the last big update. Next would be background then LPP’s. Hope too its nearing BG complete and later LPP’s.

Applied April 30, AOR May 30. Everything else is the same as you.

 

[bassamkaaki]

Applied April 30, AOR May 30. Everything else is the same as you.

Hopefully we get some good news in a few days or so.

 

[AP*]

Tracker got updated yesterday, September 5, 2025.

Type: Online application
Location: Vancouver
Physical Presence Days: 1132
Application Type: Single
Application sent: April 4, 2025
Delivered: April 4, 2025
AOR: May 6, 2025
Tracker activated: May 15, 2025
Background complete shown on tracker: May 9, 2025
Test in progress on tracker: May 30, 2025
Test invitation email received: June 2, 2025
Test window: June 6, 2025 - July 5, 2025
Test taken: Online
Test complete: June 15, 2025
Test complete on tracker: July 14, 2025
Prohibitions complete shown on tracker: September 3, 2025
Physical presence complete shown on tracker: September 3, 2025
Language skills complete shown on tracker: September 3, 2025

Citizenship ceremony is not scheduled yet. Can someone please add to the tracker sheet? Thank you!

Tracker got updated today, September 9, 2025.

Type: Online application
Location: Vancouver
Physical Presence Days: 1132
Application Type: Single
Application sent: April 4, 2025
Delivered: April 4, 2025
AOR: May 6, 2025
Tracker activated: May 15, 2025
Background complete shown on tracker: May 9, 2025
Test in progress on tracker: May 30, 2025
Test invitation email received: June 2, 2025
Test window: June 6, 2025 - July 5, 2025
Test taken: Online
Test complete: June 15, 2025
Test complete on tracker: July 14, 2025
Prohibitions complete shown on tracker: September 3, 2025
Physical presence complete shown on tracker: September 3, 2025
Language skills complete shown on tracker: September 3, 2025
Oath ceremony scheduled: October 9, 2025

Still waiting for the invitation letter.

 

[mrs.Saifee]

AOR 8 th May
Background 13th may
Test 11 th July
Called IRCC and they said LPP not started yet .anyone in the same boat?