In January, I submitted a web form requesting urgent processing of my application for both academic and professional reasons. From a professional standpoint, my current role with a Canadian company requires frequent travel. The Canadian citizenship/passport would facilitate this.
Later on, I also requested that IRCC delink my application from my spouse’s application.
I have not received any response to either of these requests.
Unfortunately esp about the de-linking.
But on the first point: while I don't know of any detailed explanation of the policy for 'urgent processing', they do make clear such cases are 'exceptional.' I think in practice this means for jobs that
legally require Canadian citizenship, and this is very, very few jobs. (And I'd assume and hope that they don't give a damn about jobs abroad, unless for eg Canadian government, for which some jobs - abroad - do require citizenship).
Again, this is
require - not whether it's more convenient to travel, etc. (I'm sympathetic personally - my spouse is in the same situation, both employment and convenience of frequent travel). 'Facilitate' is not the same as requirement.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...adian-citizenship/adult-minor/how/urgent.html
They say on this page only if you need it to 'apply for a job', or to keep it. But most seem to interpret this to mean apply/keep a job in Canada or connected to Canada - and for the most part,
witihn Canada, employers are not entitled to discriminate or require citizenship in order to be employed. Put differently, PRs usually can't be discriminated against by employers. The exceptions are largely the governments themselves (I'm not as clear about provinces, actually) - and while the federal government
can prefer citizens, it's been policy since 2021 to treat citizens and PRs equally for public service jobs.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-ser...ants-and-external-appointments-2017-2023.html
Outside sources who work on immigration make this explicit, that the urgent treatment is only for jobs that legally require citizenship.
https://immigration.ca/how-to-quali...ng-for-your-canadian-citizenship-application/
I believe there may still be carve-outs for some specific things like security clearance-requiring jobs, national security positions, etc., and it is definitely the case that they can require citizenship for jobs that require postings (not just travel) abroad.
Anyway, all that said: my point is to repeat that for the most part, it is most likely that IRCC will NOT treat most requests 'for employment reasons' as exceptional unless they are jobs in Canada - and by presumption, most jobs in Canada do NOT require citizenship (over PR status) because it's not legal to do so (at least as far as I understand things).
[Let's admit that some employers still may prefer citizens even if they're not legally allowed to do so - but the citizenship process is not the way to address that.]
