Rescheduling Oath Ceremony

[dsthpaana]

• Has anyone here ever rescheduled their Canadian citizenship oath ceremony for a few months later?
• If yes, how long were you able to postpone it? Did IRCC approve and give you a new date?
• My oath is currently scheduled for October 15th, but due to family medical emergencies, I can only attend around January. I can be early as well but at this time I am not sure. Do I have to provide supporting documentation? Has anyone successfully pushed their ceremony that far ahead?

• When you rescheduled, did IRCC give you the new date right away, or did you have to wait until closer to the time?

 

[forw.jane]

• Has anyone here ever rescheduled their Canadian citizenship oath ceremony for a few months later?
• If yes, how long were you able to postpone it? Did IRCC approve and give you a new date?
• My oath is currently scheduled for October 15th, but due to family medical emergencies, I can only attend around January. I can be early as well but at this time I am not sure. Do I have to provide supporting documentation? Has anyone successfully pushed their ceremony that far ahead?
• When you rescheduled, did IRCC give you the new date right away, or did you have to wait until closer to the time?

Many have done it in the past. In your case they might ask you to inform them once you are back and then only they will give you a new date. Issue with rescheduling is you wont have any control when the new date will be scheduled. In your rescheduling request you can attach the supporting documentation.

 

[armoured]

• Has anyone here ever rescheduled their Canadian citizenship oath ceremony for a few months later?
• If yes, how long were you able to postpone it? Did IRCC approve and give you a new date?
• My oath is currently scheduled for October 15th, but due to family medical emergencies, I can only attend around January. I can be early as well but at this time I am not sure. Do I have to provide supporting documentation? Has anyone successfully pushed their ceremony that far ahead?
• When you rescheduled, did IRCC give you the new date right away, or did you have to wait until closer to the time?

If you mean you will be out of country at that time, tell them you'll be away until such and such a date.

It seems that in almost all cases where the absence is more than a week or two, they tell the applicant to notify them again when back in Canada. (I presume they have found by experience that those who leave for longer periods like this, especially when emergencies involved, often end up not returning right away)

 

[samk6567]

Applied : Mar 2025
AOR : Mar 2025
Background and Test Complete : July/Aug 2025
LPP : Waiting


Have to leave the country for the winter (next week) for personal reasons. Would have to be away for 3 months.


I see once LPP is done, it takes only a few days/weeks to get oath invite (best case).
Question to experts:
1. Would they schedule the oath if I am outside the country?
2. Will I be able to return for a few weeks to get the oath completed with, and then travel back to attend to my personal work. (i could do that with small disruption to my personal work, and that's ok with me) ?

What is the best way to handle this?

 

[Achilles23]

Applied : Mar 2025
AOR : Mar 2025
Background and Test Complete : July/Aug 2025
LPP : Waiting


Have to leave the country for the winter (next week) for personal reasons. Would have to be away for 3 months.


I see once LPP is done, it takes only a few days/weeks to get oath invite (best case).
Question to experts:
1. Would they schedule the oath if I am outside the country?
2. Will I be able to return for a few weeks to get the oath completed with, and then travel back to attend to my personal work. (i could do that with small disruption to my personal work, and that's ok with me) ?

What is the best way to handle this?

My personal experience:

I took the test from outside after several attempts to notify IRCC, and they did not respond.

As long as you travel back once the tracker shows a date, it's fine. My LPP was turned green, and the next day, I saw my oath date (around 10 days later date), so I immediately travelled back to attend the oath online.

Everything was good. While attending the ceremony online, I told the officer about my immediate travel plans after the oath; got the E-Certificate 2 days later, and after another 2 days, I got my passport and travelled outside.