April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

[pavs.raj]

Hi, did you finally receive your oath ceremony invite? My LPP got completed on November 5 and waiting for oath now. I am based in Victoria.

Yes , I received it finally. Details below.

Finally received my oath invite email ( no tracker update) for Dec 5th (virtual) ,yesterday evening.. Vancouver resident..(self+ child)

Vancouver Office | submitted April 14 | AOR: May 15
• Test: June 22 → Completed July 2
• FP Request: July 17
• FP Completed: July 19 (IRCC received it on Aug 6 , I called on August 11th to get a confirmation)
• BG: Completed Aug 28 → Marked Aug 30
• LPP: Completed Sep 15

 

[mark12345680]

Hi, just a quick update on the citizenship to passport initiative.

Timeline:
Oct 23 - Oath ceremony
Oct 24 - Citizenship certificate became available
Oct 30 - IRCC reached out to confirm information
Nov 10 - Received my passport

During this time, you don't have any access to status tracker, so you're basically left in the dark the whole time.
This will be my last post. Wishing everyone the very best and hope we will cross paths again somewhere.

 

[rasping8749]

Citizenship ceremony done via Zoom this morning. I emailed the oath form immediately at the end of the ceremony and have already been able to download the citizenship certificate via the portal approximately 2 hours later. All done. Good luck to everyone else.

 

[Jaikisan Vaswani]

Last update Nov 14, LPP complete - Nov 12, oath in tracker - Nov 28, relieved, all thanks to Jesus.

received virtual oath invitation for self and minor for Nov 28, 11 am EST

 

[moscatojuices]

As usual, very disappointing to see people become citizens over Zoom. While this practice is allowed by the IRCC, its beyond mortifying to see people celebrate or affect something as serious as marriage or baptism on a computer. Its very low-effort and shameful by you.

Interestingly despite my views and willingness to wait extra weeks to do it in person, zero updates on my application since passing the test. So it seems low-effort people win.

 

[redsun]

Hi everyone,

Note on page 3 in GCMS notes: "Location: Grant interview ready MS Teams"

Submission date: May 04, 2025
AOR: June 05, 2025
Test passed: July 24, 2025
Background passed: August 28, 2025
LPP: In Progress/Not started
City of residence: Edmonton
Primary VO: Vancouver
Secondary VO: Sydney
Event office: Edmonton

There has been no movement since August 28th.

Has anyone experienced this "Grant interview ready" note? Will the interview necessarily happen? If yes, possibly when? Any information or insights will be helpful.

Thanks a lot, really.

 

[flamingo8]

April 15: Submitted online
May 28: AOR
July 16: Test passed
Aug 28: Background passed
Oct 14: LPP done
Oct 27: Oath in progress
Oct 29: Citizenship to passport pilot invitation received
Oct 31: Applied through Canada Post Connect portal
Nov 6: Oath ceremony online
Nov 10: E-certificate download available

Nov 12: Application on Connect opened by IRCC
Nov 19: Passport shipped from Hull, QC
Nov 20: Passport delivered

Primary office: Vancouver
Secondary: Sydney

 

[abff08f4813c]

Thanks, this worked perfectly for me! Only I had to go further back and change the date to Nov 10 (I tried on Nov 14).

Seems like they fixed it, could log in without any tomfoolery this time around.

Alas, still all in progress.

 

[abff08f4813c]

As usual, very disappointing to see people become citizens over Zoom. While this practice is allowed by the IRCC, its beyond mortifying to see people celebrate or affect something as serious as marriage or baptism on a computer. Its very low-effort and shameful by you.

Or perhaps ... these folks are sacrificing hard for YOU?

Remember that there's limited space in a public, in-person ceremony and it takes more time to arrange, so there are fewer available. The average count for an in-person ceremony is about 75, and about 52 are held per month. So that's 3900 roughly. Meanwhile for zoom, 224 are held a month with an average count of 135. So that's 30240.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...m-october-24-2023/citizenship-ceremonies.html

Interestingly despite my views and willingness to wait extra weeks to do it in person, zero updates on my application since passing the test. So it seems low-effort people win.

Or maybe they're waiting to fulfill your wishes by finding you an in-person spot before wrapping up your app all at once?

If everyone was duking it out for an in-person ceremony, think about how much longer you'd have to wait. Your wait would be almost eight (8) times as long!

 

[rasping8749]

As usual, very disappointing to see people become citizens over Zoom. While this practice is allowed by the IRCC, its beyond mortifying to see people celebrate or affect something as serious as marriage or baptism on a computer. Its very low-effort and shameful by you.

Interestingly despite my views and willingness to wait extra weeks to do it in person, zero updates on my application since passing the test. So it seems low-effort people win.

An in-person ceremony didn't matter to me at all, so I was content to accept a zoom version, especially given I know the in-person ceremony really does matter for a lot of people.

Anyway, it sounds like you deserve your wait. Enjoy it, my friend! I enjoyed sitting in my comfy armchair at home and becoming a citizen. The presiding judge didn't even pause to appraise my effort or shame levels.

 

[simonclarke1]

As usual, very disappointing to see people become citizens over Zoom. While this practice is allowed by the IRCC, its beyond mortifying to see people celebrate or affect something as serious as marriage or baptism on a computer. Its very low-effort and shameful by you.

Interestingly despite my views and willingness to wait extra weeks to do it in person, zero updates on my application since passing the test. So it seems low-effort people win.

Thanks for your input. In fairness I had a great day, It appears you may still have a long wait!

 

[simonclarke1]

An in-person ceremony didn't matter to me at all, so I was content to accept a zoom version, especially given I know the in-person ceremony really does matter for a lot of people.

Anyway, it sounds like you deserve your wait. Enjoy it, my friend! I enjoyed sitting in my comfy armchair at home and becoming a citizen. The presiding judge didn't even pause to appraise my effort or shame levels.

My arm chair was extremely comfortable too!

 

[Jaikisan Vaswani]

Last update Nov 14, LPP complete - Nov 12, oath in tracker - Nov 28, relieved, all thanks to Jesus.

virtual oath done today & ecertificate downloaded

received virtual oath invitation for self and minor for Nov 28, 11 am EST

oath completed & e-certificate downloaded today

 

[M.K.H]

Any April applicants still waiting for LPP ? I made numerous calls , I get the same response that it hasn't started. Requested ATIP but never got any response. My background is complete since May..Any suggestions?

 

[abff08f4813c]

Any April applicants still waiting for LPP ? I made numerous calls , I get the same response that it hasn't started. Requested ATIP but never got any response. My background is complete since May..Any suggestions?

Yep, same here.

Earlier in the thread some of us were speculating that if we had connections or trips to the US, the shutdown there might have caused a bunch of delays....