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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    To be clear, I spend so much time addressing actual cases, citing actual facts, referencing and applying actual law, because some, including you, repeat falsehoods about the process, whereas for many it is important to deal with reality, particularly for those who come to this forum for...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Further observations in regards to the untrue claim: For clarity, and in anticipation of the BS (not a lot of BS, since soundbite BS is more likely) here are some additional references (just a sampling) to an extensive amount of transparency in what IRCC does when they receive an application...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    As noted, the following is not true: There are problems with the extent to which certain aspects of processing citizenship applications are confidential, as well as some in regards to instances or circumstances in which a person has limited access to personal information affecting their...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    FWIW . . . I have not tried to ascertain, let alone analyze or discuss the what or why in your particular case. Generally, in regards to what's happening in a particular case, I don't go there beyond what is more or less obvious, and particularly not into matters best sorted out in private, in...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Even though there are no apparent significantly off statements in the CityNews article titled "Immigration lawyers say rising number of CSIS security screenings causing delays," there is little useful information in the article; it illuminates rather little beyond the headline, and for those who...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    Mea Culpa. Sorry, meant to cite and link the Federal Court of Appeal Bermudez decision (not the Federal Court): Bermudez v. Canada, 2016 FCA 131, https://canlii.ca/t/gr714 Too often I make mistakes (many far worse than grabbing the wrong citation from a collection of sources), so I very much...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    Best guess: That alone, but depending some on just what service is involved, is not likely to trigger a cessation investigation or be a factor that makes much of a difference if the PR-refugee is being investigated for cessation based on other actions. But beyond that it can get complicated...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    The account of your experience is appreciated. I hope this goes well. Given some anecdotal reports from PR-refugees who have taken the oath despite a trip to their home country (seemingly credible accounts), and considering you made just one home country trip and it has been more than five...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    Hopeful congratulations. Please let us know how it goes from here. If you are uncomfortable sharing details about your history related to the cessation investigation, I fully understand, for sure. But if you are willing to share more that would be appreciated, to share some details that would...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Your post is not true. @Ali.arshady is correct. For clarity: (In case there is any real interest in understanding how things work in a way that might actually help navigating the process, rather than spouting erroneous rhetoric.) There is NO right to citizenship as such in the Canadian...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    Once a former PR-refugee has obtained Canadian citizenship, cessation of status is not relevant, no threat, not a problem. Your situation is off-topic in this thread (which is about PRs and cessation). In addition to no longer being a PR (becoming a Canadian citizen terminates PR status by...
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    Ex-Refugee Visiting Home Country After Getting Citizenship

    Beyond observations in the thread where this was posted (off-topic) . . . Second question first: Of course CBSA officers can question any traveler about their travel history, search their luggage, examine any documents including travel documents on the person or found in the luggage, and for...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL 2025 August

    If there is a name change, if that is what you mean by "updating my name on my PR card," that is almost certainly a factor that makes the application complex. "Complex" mostly means the application does not meet the criteria for automated decision-making (we do not know what the triage criteria...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL 2025 August

    Too soon (way too soon) to discern if there is a "delay," let alone an "unusual" delay. PR card application processing times of up to six months or so are not unusual. Too soon, even, to discern whether your PR card application met the criteria for automated processing, or has been...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    I cannot read French. Even though the decision in Rosas Castro v. Canada, 2025 FC 1366, https://canlii.ca/t/kds88 was just last week, so a new decision, it does not offer new light on cessation cases. It does, however, illustrate how long the process can take: cessation proceedings started...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL APPLICATIONS JULY 2025

    My question is whether Health Card records from Provincial Health Ministry is acceptable or not? It appears you overlook the very instructions you copy here. Among the examples of items constituting evidence those instructions list (as you quote) "evidence that you received benefits from...
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    Documents to prove permanent residency obligations?

    For a PR who meets the RO based on days present here in Canada, who has been living here for awhile and is currently living here, they should be OK marking the "proof" item in the checklist if they include with the application, for example (one among many): -- a bank statement that shows the...
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    Lived outside of Canada with my ex (divorced) wife who is Canadian citizen, does that count towards meeting my residency days in Canada?

    xx Generally a period of time during which a PR is living with their Canadian citizen spouse outside Canada will be given credit toward the Residency Obligation for those days they are "ordinarily" residing together outside Canada. As @canuck78 references, there are situations in which this...
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    CBSA consent

    Thank you for pointing out that consent for CRA information sharing is still required. Like everyone who breathes, I make mistakes. Taking a closer look at the various versions of the application for citizenship, from over the years, I see that actually IRCC moved where the applicant gives...
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    CBSA consent

    Another Edit to Note there are significant errors in this post . . . see later post (assuming I post soon). Sometime ago there were changes in policy and practice, and some of the underlying law, which allows IRCC to directly access certain types of personal information held by other agencies...