How long till the interview

[Rusty-53]

Hello

I am just completing my wife's citizenship application and it will get mailed next week. She has in excess of 1600 days so we know we have no issue in this area. We waited until her 55th birthday which is this week in order to bypass the language requirements and test. We are in the Barrie area and I an assuming this would be the office we will be dealing with. My dilemma is that we will be leaving for her home country to spend the winter with her kids and grand kids and won't be back till the end of March. I am curious as to if we will receive a meeting date before then and if we do are we able to postpone it.

I know no one can give me a definitive answer but I would like

 

[nanni_doc]

Hello

I am just completing my wife's citizenship application and it will get mailed next week. She has in excess of 1600 days so we know we have no issue in this area. We waited until her 55th birthday which is this week in order to bypass the language requirements and test. We are in the Barrie area and I an assuming this would be the office we will be dealing with. My dilemma is that we will be leaving for her home country to spend the winter with her kids and grand kids and won't be back till the end of March. I am curious as to if we will receive a meeting date before then and if we do are we able to postpone it.

I know no one can give me a definitive answer but I would like

Follow this years and past year’s spreadsheet you will get an idea. And yes if you do get it and you cannot make it, you can postpone it but that would obviously mean more processing time

 

[jc94]

Conversely, emailing IRCC and saying you're going to be out of the country until end of next March could also delay the application.

The most likely thing you'll get in the next five months is a FP request. Doing that from overseas can be ore challenging so you may want to consider how to handle that. You are unlikely to get an actual test invite / date within five months unless 'lucky'.
Just make sure even if you are including an email address someone checks your mail once a week, as even providing an electronic method of contacting you doesn't guarantee they won't send you postal mail and you generally only have 30 days to reply.

 

[Rusty-53]

Conversely, emailing IRCC and saying you're going to be out of the country until end of next March could also delay the application.

The most likely thing you'll get in the next five months is a FP request. Doing that from overseas can be ore challenging so you may want to consider how to handle that. You are unlikely to get an actual test invite / date within five months unless 'lucky'.
Just make sure even if you are including an email address someone checks your mail once a week, as even providing an electronic method of contacting you doesn't guarantee they won't send you postal mail and you generally only have 30 days to reply.

What is a FB request?

 

[Mrva21]

What is a FB request?

Hehe...its not FB request but it is an FP request. FP stands for fingerprint!

 

[Rusty-53]

Hehe...its not FB request but it is an FP request. FP stands for fingerprint!

DOH Thank you