Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

[Seym]

I kindly request assistance in a few areas. I would greatly appreciate the help.

1. When filling in the residence details, should I list the start date for my oldest residence as the date when I became eligible for residency, or the date I actually moved in? To clarify, my eligibility for residency starts on December 15, 2025, based on my physical presence calculations, while my move-in date at my oldest residence was October 1, 2020. Should I indicate the date range as December 15, 2020, to February 20, 2021, or should I use my original move-in date, which would be from October 1, 2020, to February 20, 2021?

2. For physical presence, since it is an online application, did you attach the printed, scanned, and signed physical presence document?

1) you asked an identical question for work history. The same answer obviously applies.
2) where in the online application does it ask to attach the signed physical presence document? Absolutely nowhere? It means that isn't not needed. Same for every other document you may think of that is not explicitly listed.

As for the question in your second post, IRCC is asking for valid passports, and the older passport wasn't valid for a single day of the eligibility period and is outside the scope of what IRCC asks for. And no need for a LOE, you're free to renew a passport for whatever reason. Just provide what they ask for and don't complicate it.

 

[neha_415]

@Seym, you do have a very rude tone in your replies. I guess I can ask a question for a different section
(of a similar nature) If I have a doubt. If you prefer to be this rude, then refrain from replying to my posts.

 

[armoured]

During my five-year eligibility period, I held two passports. My earlier passport was issued in June 2014 and expired in June 2024. I was issued a new passport on December 1, 2020, which is valid until November 2030. Could you please confirm whether I should declare both passports or only the currently valid passport? Do I have to submit an LOE for getting the passport renewed before the expiry date?

You should declare both. No reason to do an LOE.

 

[neha_415]

You should declare both. No reason to do an LOE.

Thanks

 

[abin jerson]

Can anyone help
hi all,
In residence/tax section:
1.List all addresses inside and outside of Canada during your entire 5-year eligibility period:NEED to ENTER evisa (transit visa) details???
2.In travel documents section : need to enter the eVisa details??

 

[Seym]

Can anyone help
hi all,
In residence/tax section:
1.List all addresses inside and outside of Canada during your entire 5-year eligibility period:NEED to ENTER evisa (transit visa) details???
2.In travel documents section : need to enter the eVisa details??

Please stop spamming everywhere.
1) what does a visa have to do with your address history? This question makes no sense really.
2) a visa is not a travel document. List passports or refugee travels docs. Maybe nexus card or anything equivalent, but not visas.

There's a section of the citizenship application, which you didn't ask about, that asks for immigration/citizenship statuses, and which is more relevant to your visa questions. There are 2 schools of thought here.
Many, including me, suggest to just list "meaningful" immigration statuses. You worked 2 years in Dubai? List it. You got a visa or e-visa for a 2 weeks trip in Australia or Brazil, or a transit visa from US on your way to South America? Feel free to skip.
Others list absolutely everything, including travel and transit visas.
As people routinely get their citizenship without listing the teavel/transit visas (both paper and electronic ones!), and for what it's worth, got mine in 5 months or so without listing US or Schengen travel visas, the second approach seems overkill, but it absolutely gives some peace of mind to people who are anxious about that specific question, so go that way if you want.

 

[abin jerson]

Please stop spamming everywhere.
1) what does a visa have to do with your address history? This question makes no sense really.
2) a visa is not a travel document. List passports or refugee travels docs. Maybe nexus card or anything equivalent, but not visas.

There's a section of the citizenship application, which you didn't ask about, that asks for immigration/citizenship statuses, and which is more relevant to your visa questions. There are 2 schools of thought here.
Many, including me, suggest to just list "meaningful" immigration statuses. You worked 2 years in Dubai? List it. You got a visa or e-visa for a 2 weeks trip in Australia or Brazil, or a transit visa from US on your way to South America? Feel free to skip.
Others list absolutely everything, including travel and transit visas.
As people routinely get their citizenship without listing the teavel/transit visas (both paper and electronic ones!), and for what it's worth, got mine in 5 months or so without listing US or Schengen travel visas, the second approach seems overkill, but it absolutely gives some peace of mind to people who are anxious about that specific question, so go that way if you want.

Thanks for the reply

 

[sgrv]

Hello, my wife and I lived in India for many years immediately before we flew to Canada and landed as permanent residents. We haven't left Canada since.

I am an Indian citizen but my wife is a citizen of a third nation. We both provided Indian PCCs when we applied for PR while we were residing in India.

I just wanted to confirm if my understanding is correct: that both my wife and I do not need to submit Indian PCCs for having spent more than 183 days in a row in India in the last 4 years.

(Because "country of origin" is understood by OP and others in this thread to mean the country of last residence prior to immigration to Canada and not the country of citizenship.)

 

[Seym]

@sgrv correct. The country of origin is indeed the country where you were originally before PR, and from which you submitted your PR application, not necessarily the country of citizenship.
Neither you nor your wife need an Indian PCC to submit a complete citizenship application. Obviously, IRCC can ask for any document at any time, including PCCs, but odds for this are usually very low.

 

[sgrv]

@sgrv correct. The country of origin is indeed the country where you were originally before PR, and from which you submitted your PR application, not necessarily the country of citizenship.
Neither you nor your wife need an Indian PCC to submit a complete citizenship application. Obviously, IRCC can ask for any document at any time, including PCCs, but odds for this are usually very low.

Thank you!