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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Okay, that's good. Then you didn't do anything wrong. So, you can and should complain, see here: https://ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=464&top=1 They are supposed to inform you they can't do it within 30 days - and then they have an extra 30 days, in most cases. But by all...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Did you get an acknowledgement of some kind when you made the request?
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    Living arrangement

    I do not understand at all what you are asking. Residency obligation is an individual thing - your divorce is not really part of the equation, if the residency time in question is in Canada. Time with a spouse while abroad might count in some circumstances, in which case it would be relevant...
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    Current processing times (chart by month with applicants ahead)

    It's an interesting hypothesis but ... I think it's not likely to be true. But obviously I don't know, I think will be necessary to follow in subsequent months and see if some other explanation. Here's why I doubt it. Express entry: the timing is too perfect (to-the-month). Even if there was a...
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    Spousal sponsorship

    In brief: you provide a plan for you and your spouse to move to and reside in Canada, and evidence that you are working on that plan. You were supposed to have provided that with the application - and if you did not, that is a very deficient application package. (If you did - now you update them...
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    Traveling without a PR Card Help

    Good luck. Now note, I wouldn't apply for the PRTD too early. I'm only kind of guessing, but I reckon applying 3-5 days before departing on assumption they'll understand is reasonable. (YMMV, use at own risk, etc) Do make it clear that you have tight timelines and where possible mark PRTD as...
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    Traveling without a PR Card Help

    Obviously what's the status, has it been sent, do they have info on when it iwll be sent, you have a flight in 3 weeks. Check the address to which it will be sent. I would wait for now. At least see what they say. If you do not have the PR card or a PRTD, you won't be allowed to board the...
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    Traveling without a PR Card Help

    I'd try calling IRCC now. -My understanding is that actually you can apply for the PRTD before departing (seemingly not officially but not really an issue). I wouldnt do right now, but I can't suggest when. -Flight return date may limit your capacity to get the PRTD in time. -Flying out is not...
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    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    As far as I'm aware, you shouldn't need the UK one.
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    Current processing times (chart by month with applicants ahead)

    Tabular data for those who prefer numbers: I hope this works and is readable, I hate having to use imgur for this, but if it doesn't work, don't know that I'm going to be able to better it.
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    Current processing times (chart by month with applicants ahead)

    I've looked at the processing times by month, fiddling with the new processing time information (available here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/check-processing-times.html ). And I'm a dork, so I couldn't help but eventually tabulate and make this...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Huge step! Fingers crossed for you both
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    This worries me. Clearly a sign of the apocalypse. What's next, locusts?
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I didn't mean to imply it didn't happen - just that it seems quite exceptional.
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Literally never heard of anyone receiving a substantive reply to a webform in less than a week. So I'd still recommend calling. Good to know it happens, but I'm not holding my breath to see it generalized.
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Call IRCC. Webforms take weeks for anything to happen.
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    No updates in my Citizenship application

    As far as I can tell, yes - I don't understand the exact differences between background and prohibitions, but it seems not at all rare that prohibitions get held up even after background is marked cleared. (Note that sometimes at least all three of the secondary, language-physical...
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    Only 1 year remaining before PR expiry

    Short form answer (you will see other stories here about what has happened): -They will ('must') consider all reasons for H&C - but how much weight they put on the reasons is up to them, and whether or not they consider them sufficient reason to be lenient is uncertain. -Since you have a valid...
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    No updates in my Citizenship application

    Order your gcms notes, from cbsa and from ircc. It's not likely it will tell you much although sections redacted under the security exemptions may indicate that security clearances are the hold-up. If so, there's not a lot that can be done in most cases except wait. It's more common for some...
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    Fastest way to renounce PR?

    You submit a reununciation form. https://ircc.canada.ca/english/information/applications/guides/5781etoc.asp Don't know how long it takes, probably less than three months, but only a guess. I don't see that doing it in Canada would be faster. Is there some reason that the speed is important?