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  1. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Wow, our timelines almost lines up exactly; Jan 30 submission, Feb 14 AOR, Mar 4 background done, Mar 18 test completed. Same Vancouver primary office, but my secondary office is Scarborough. Gives me hope to see that you just had LPP done a few days ago!
  2. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    After over 3 months of no update since March 18, I just got a ghost update today (Sat, Jun 28). LPP still in progress, but what's weird is that all the items in the Activity history are now marked with the “New update” badge. Weird! Last time I got a ghost update on a Saturday, my application...
  3. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I don't think that's how IRCC works in general—they don't “balance it out” like that. There are some March and April applicants who got ceremony invites already while applicants from Nov, Dec, Jan & Feb 2025 are still waiting for LPP. It's just arbitrary. One reason I can think of for not...
  4. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I have seen people waiting 2-3 months after LPP to get ceremony invite so you are still within the normal range!
  5. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Not by default, but some get selected for an interview.
  6. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Congrats and thank you for the data point! Submitted mine just 4 days after you so your update gave me hope that I will get LPP done next week
  7. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Yup. AOR Feb 14, BG done Mar 4, test done Mar 18. I'm at day 147 since submission. I did feel better after seeing this timeline of a December applicant getting LPP done just this week on Reddit: • Dec 23, 2024 - Application filed. • Jan 7, 2025 - AOR • Feb 6, 2025 - Citizenship test status has...
  8. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Wow congrats and thanks for sharing! Good to know that the tracker can be inaccurate. This is the second case I've come across in the last two weeks where the applicant got the ceremony invitation without LPP turning green on the tracker. Is Feb 5th your submission date or AOR date?
  9. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    There are also applicants from Oct and Nov who are just getting their LPP done recently! As long as we are within the 10-month processing window, there's no need to worry and we just gotta be patient. I've been keeping track of LPP-completed applications and some waited 170+ days for LPP to...
  10. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I've been keeping track of 55 LPP-completion timelines from Nov, Dec and Jan, and the most common LPP completion time range (from AOR) is 121-127 days, with 25% waited more than 127 days. The longest I've seen so far waited for 178 days. If you fall anywhere near the most common range, maybe...
  11. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Over on R eddit, a January applicant (by AOR) just shared that they received the ceremony invite email, while LPP are all still “In Progress” in the tracker and never got updated. Seems that just because you don't see any movements on the tracker doesn't mean your file isn't being worked on...
  12. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    “you're biasing the data by including only faster files (excluding all that haven't made it this far).” Many of the application timelines I fed ChatGPT are not faster files, though. If you look at the graph below, you will see that my application is actually still moving at a normal pace, and...
  13. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Thanks for another data point! Mind sharing your full timeline?
  14. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    For what it's worth, I never find that spreadsheet to be particularly useful simply because I can't tell if fields are left blank because the applicant hasn't received any updates, or they just forgot to update or got too lazy to update (guilty as charged btw—I forgot to update my application on...
  15. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I'm not sure. I'm in this January 2025 thread because I submitted on Jan 30. If I were to only count from AOR, I would be a February applicant. But here are the stats counting from AOR, calculated by ChatGPT based on 38 timelines: LPP Completion Range: Fastest: 48 days Slowest: 161 days Most...
  16. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    For those of us who are still waiting for LPP, maybe this will help put things into perspective. I fed ChatGPT 38 application timelines (last time I only had 15) from Dec and Jan that had LPP completed so far, and asked it to give me some stats: For me, I submitted on Jan 30, and this is how...
  17. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Congrats! Mind sharing your full timeline?
  18. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    The thing is, an applicant on this thread, who had been waiting for LPP to complete for a while, was told by an agent that their file was complete and was just waiting for someone to update the tracker in the backend. The applicant got LPP done on the tracker shortly after. So clearly, IRCC call...
  19. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    What did you ask exactly? The agent I talked to wouldn't even tell me if my application is routine. I wonder if some agents just have the kindness to give us more info than they are supposed to.
  20. James Lyrie-Stewart

    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Congrats! When did you submit?