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For those seriously considering the effort to accelerate processing their citizenship application by obtaining the assistance of a lawyer to rattle the mandamus sword, there's plenty of discussion here to consider. I have engaged in many of these discussions. Here are some samples going back...

Regarding Mandamus Relief For Citizenship Applications Suffering Lengthy Processing Times, Generally: Actual mandamus relief accelerating citizenship application processing is uncommon, so uncommon it is probably rare. Lawyer-made efforts to spur quicker processing, either directly or...

A Clarification: @steaky and @Ponga correctly answered this query. No. That is: a PR who has spent more than 730 days in Canada within the relevant five years does NOT need to submit proof of residency IN Canada with an application for a PR card (but does with an application for a PR TD) as...

It appears you are mostly talking about how-things-should-work. I generally steer well clear of wrestling with that (with isolated, narrow exceptions). My observations are oriented to the way things do work. Getting a clear understanding about how things actually do work is challenging enough...

Clarification: There is no renewing PR status. PR card expiring does not affect PR status. Main thing the card expiring affects is the PR's capacity to return to Canada from abroad (a PR needs a valid PR card, or PR TD, or to travel via the U.S., to return to Canada from abroad). When to...

I hope it does not come across as rude, but your questions suggest you might need someone to assist you in reading and following the instructions. Not necessarily someone with expertise, not necessarily a lawyer or consultant, just someone like a parent, close friend, colleague, someone you...

When applying for a PR card: A PR in Canada who meets the PR RO, and who has not been outside Canada for more than 1095 days during the preceding five years, does NOT need to submit, with the application, the proof of residency in Canada, as described in Appendix A in the guide. Some PRs, like...

At first glance this decision, this case, Ali v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 383, https://canlii.ca/t/jwbhn does not offer any clarification or further illumination of the cessation process. It does go into depth restating much of the governing law, and thus is one more case...

Observations by others have largely covered, well-covered, the various factors and considerations involved in regards to your individual situation, and to a significant extent the situation confronted by others as well. For any PR who has difficulty complying with the PR Residency Obligation...

for some context . . . I am not familiar with the mechanics of using the PR account portal for making a PR TD application, since this is not accessible to someone like me who was a PR in the past but has been a Canadian citizen for years. However, I can say that PR status in Canada is...

As observed by @canuck78, to complete the application for a PR card the applicant must declare they are IN Canada (otherwise the form to apply for a PR card cannot be properly completed). What the impact there will be if the PR employs some technicality or semantic twist to overtly avoid...

There is NO doubt that the PR Residency Obligation individually applies to each PR, no matter their age or relationship to another PR. If a PR stays IN Canada enough days to comply with the PR Residency Obligation, they are RO compliant. Whether any other family members, including parents (or...

If I am am posting about a complex subject, which is what I mostly focus on these days (and even then only in regards to a narrow range of particular subjects), my content alone will often approach the 10k character limit. Better to just use limited, selective quotes from me, rather than trying...

Are you trying to ask a follow-up question or comment on what has since happened in your case? If so, it will help to separate your questions or comments from what was in my post.

If you have a lawyer or representative that assisted you in the appeal, they should be able to offer more information and explanation. Otherwise . . . This illustrates one of the many ways in which I am NO expert, the lack of hands-on in-practice experience with the particular procedures and...

Political activism is one option. Both in terms of advocacy aimed at IRCC processing citizenship applications generally, and in terms of engaging in personal efforts to encourage IRCC in an individual case. It appears you are familiar with the latter, including pursuing one of the more common...

Please forgive my wandering off-topic for just a bit . . . Covid-19 factor in H&C assessment: In part because it comes up in a few of the cases I just cited, in the previous post, and in part because I have not previously cited official sources regarding Covid constituting a positive factor...

". . . I recently appealed my PRTD refusal from 2021 based on HNC and was successful in end January 2023. . . . . Now upon inquiring through the MPs office, they stated that the PRTD is still under review. Do they just mean . . . " Assuming you are correct, that the IAD has in fact allowed the...

A PR who meets the ALL of the requirements can, of course, file an application for citizenship. When to file is not for me to say. (There are various reasons why it might be wise to wait longer after all the requirements are met.) Question 12 in the application CIT 0002 has a chart with five...

The eligibility requirements for citizenship do not mandate that Canadian taxes be filed, only that the individual complied with Canadian tax filing laws for at least three of the relevant five tax years. Thus, for example, for any year in which the applicant did not file a tax return, if they...