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  1. Seym

    Citizenship Application: Parent Meets Residency, Child Doesn’t. What Are the Options?

    The kids of Canadian citizen or the kids applying with their parents don't have any physical presence requirement. So yes, the parent can apply for the child at the same time. Also, please note that the eligibility windows doesn't expire, it just shifts day by day to always cover the 5 years...
  2. Seym

    Citizenship - Address and Study dates starting outside the 5 year period

    If the online application accepts putting the real starting date, do so, if it throws a mistake, put the beginning of the 5 years eligibility period. It's no big deal one way or another.
  3. Seym

    Marital Status Question

    It doesn't matter. Pick one and move on, it won't affect your application one way or another.
  4. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    It absolutely is broken, but there's unfortunately no incentive to fix it at all. If anything, we're at a point where government will make things harder instead of more efficient, just like biometrics being necessary for every single applicant starting next year or the one after...
  5. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    The issue here is that the database CSIS needs is often unavailable to them. Most folks stuck in SS come from countries with, at best, so-so diplomatic relations and cooperation with Canada. Whether applicant X is hiding something in, say, China, Venezuela or Iran isn't as straightforward as...
  6. Seym

    More documentation was Required after citizenship interview

    It's not necessarily common, but yes, IRCC sometimes asks for additional documentation to assess physical presence, and you're absolutely not alone in facing it.
  7. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Everything complete but an application stalling for this long is inacceptable. Did you try contacting your MP? A little push from an MP may be all you need at this point.
  8. Seym

    Previous visa dates

    Student visas are indeed needed, so disregard part of my above message But same answer as above : it doesn't really matter for IRCC. Both "same day" and "successive days" are fine. Pick one, if the system allows it and doesn't throw you an error, stick to it, else go with the other.
  9. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    LOL I understand that some comments from experienced members can feel a little bit dismissive when someone is stuck in the machine, but I doubt anyone would complain about matter-of-factly stuff straight from CanLII. :D
  10. Seym

    Previous visa dates

    What visa type is this? If it's a tourist visa, you don't even need to put it in the citizenship application, especially since we're talking here about 40 days or so, regardless of how you split them up. Also, the answer to your original question, if you still want to list your US visa, is ...
  11. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Dunno what the longest would be, but here are 2 recent citizenship cases where mandamus put a stop to security checks that lasted more than 4 years : Jebelli : https://canlii.ca/t/kb3t5 Almasi : https://canlii.ca/t/kdtp6 For both, IRCC had no justification to defend the delay except the blanket...
  12. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Nop. Would be too nice. It's mostly an observation, we've seen people get theirs wrapped in 2 years or so, but there are no stats to actually back it up, and obviously, it's at best a fingers crossing expectation for people nearing 2 years of SS, but it could absolutely take much longer. Every...
  13. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Sometimes, IRCC doesn't bother with the criminality renewal till security is done. It will probably happen once they have a look again after security.
  14. Seym

    Question to people with in-person Oath Ceremony

    Again, if there is no confirmation needed on the email you got, you don't need to confirm anything. What you saw on the internet could be outdated, or simply a different IRCC office handling things a little bit differently in another city or for a specific ceremony. In all cases, all you need to...
  15. Seym

    Advice on calling IRCC getting more information

    2 possibilities : 1) both your security and your physical presence are complex. 2) IRCC is sleeping a bit on your application, and in practice it doesn't change anything. When they check your physical presence and language is not gonna lengthen the processing if a long background check is in the...
  16. Seym

    Advice on calling IRCC getting more information

    Have a look at the 2023 applicants threads. The majority of people still active there are stuck in background. So yeah, plenty of people are going through it.
  17. Seym

    GCMS notes say 'I do not appear to meet physical presence requirement'. Referred to PS for review/decision. What to do now?

    You can either wait, and who knows how long it takes to validate your physical presence, in which case there's nothing to do, IRCC will contact you if they need anything, or you can apply again with a better buffer with no "questionable days". Your call really.
  18. Seym

    Canada Citizenship application sent back - Need help

    True that, but we unfortunately don't know what that section looks like for you. Have you made sure you covered the whole 5 years period? With no gaps at all? If everything seems correct and another pair of eyes validated it, we can't rule out a mistake from the IRCC officer who reviewed your...
  19. Seym

    Canada Citizenship application sent back - Need help

    Your query is way too generic for others to be helpful. Maybe you can have a friend or family go through your application with you?
  20. Seym

    Change of family situation

    Both the marriage and the divorce could have been made with the home country authorities, whose rules are different. So, feasible I suppose. But in all cases, doesn't really matter. Being married for half a year, and divorcing right after PR may suggest it was a sham marriage, aka immigration...