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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Might be worth reaching out to Red Seal Notary. They can get your fingerprints submitted from your local police in your country to RCMP according to https://www.redsealnotary.com/services/rcmp-fingerprints-outside-canada/ (and they explicitly list India as one of the countries that they have...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    What specifically would I be looking for in the notes? Like a particular abbreviation or a keyword?
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Wish that was me, but mine still seems to be stuck. Right - but I'm from that list from armoured above, hence doesn't apply to me. Hmm, interesting. So I might have been a random quality control and thus moving slower. Is it possible to know this from GCMS notes?
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I guess it depends on the definition of "much". Certainly the fact that very few (perhaps none?) on this thread who got FP request have yet to get to the oath, while those who got to the oath weren't asked, does imply that the request itself does delay things - the question is indeed by how...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Except for US citizens, US green card holders, and the like (for which this is really easy), this is really hard to do.... According to https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/visit-canada/dual-canadian-citizens-visit-canada.html#findOut it may be possible to apply...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I don't recall if someone has already answered this, but: has any applicant who was requested fingerprints gotten to LPP complete yet? It's frustrating for me. I got FP almost certainly simply for having a super common name and a clean background. (Perhaps I was also just picked at random?) But...
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    DAD WORKED FOR COUPLE DAYS IN A YEAR DO I NEED TO MENTION THAT AS EMPLOYEMENT

    That should be fine. As per https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/adult-minor/who.html the requirement is actually "You may need to file taxes in Canada for at least 3 years during the 5 years right before the date you apply" so even if he had to...
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    Retrieve my old application for PR

    Too late to help OP probably, but wanted to add that even though it's not possible to view the old application on the portal anymore, you can still get a copy of the application itself via a ATIP request - see...
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    Do I need to mention a few unemployment days between jobs? (citizenship application)

    One thing you can do is submit an ATIP request to IRCC for a copy of your old application - so you won't need to guess. See https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/request-some-old-documents-from-ircc-for-pr-application-made-in-2012.776037/ for details. See also...
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    DAD WORKED FOR COUPLE DAYS IN A YEAR DO I NEED TO MENTION THAT AS EMPLOYEMENT

    The problem is that the online application is pretty inflexible. If you submit the work history directly, you'd need to put down some dates. My suggestion would be that you can either put a "best" guess on the dates and include a Letter Of Explanation (LOE) explaining that you don't remember...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL AFTER NEW PASSPORT FROM INDIA WITH CORRECT GIVEN NAME AND SURNAME FIELD

    More or less exactly what you mention here. As an additional supporting doc, if you can get a letter from the India agency on why they changed the format of your father's name, it would help. Otherwise, if the new passport has a page where it references the old one (not all do but I've seen a...
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    Waiting for AOR – Protected Person PR Application (Applied August 2024)

    I last did (to IRCC) it quite a few years ago. Back then It was almost exactly four months to the day for me. Here's a more recent attempt from this year: https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/atip-delays-and-webforms-with-no-answers.873817/ so June 12 to August...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I have a ghost update around August (which corresponds to when I answered my FP request). Otherwise we're in the same boat - last official update was July for me as well. Alas I have too many ties to that terrible country down south, so I expect my process to have been delayed significantly by...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Thanks, this is good to know. I suppose that there's a remote chance that you have a matching name + birth date to someone with a record in the US and they need the US authorities to confirm that you're a different person. Mostly likely though, the delay is not US related in your case.
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Yep, same here. Earlier in the thread some of us were speculating that if we had connections or trips to the US, the shutdown there might have caused a bunch of delays....
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    Protected Person - Open work permit renewal

    My preference would be to use the WP-EXT letter's date, just because it's longer so gives you more time. It shouldn't matter if you're hired before the original work permit expires. As per this earlier post on this thread, even a WP-EXT can be considered useless for changing employers (meaning...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    So at this point, spouse was not yet a protected person. So my understanding is that, generally speaking, when a spouse is added to a PR application, the spouse comes under the same stream and with the same status as the primary applicant. For example, I met my common law partner in Canada and...
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    Waiting for AOR – Protected Person PR Application (Applied August 2024)

    Quite right. When I was waiting for my PR, I filed for my own GCMS notes to see what was taking so long. I did so as an "individual residing in Canada" and received them no problem. (Actually I ended up doing this multiple times, all without issue.) Now that I have PR, I figure that just means...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    Unfortunately, yes. If you look earlier on this thread, https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/refugee-status-cessation-and-prs-applying-for-citizenship.333455/page-76#post-11094961 I mention a case where such a dependent went through cessation and lost a...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Or perhaps ... these folks are sacrificing hard for YOU? Remember that there's limited space in a public, in-person ceremony and it takes more time to arrange, so there are fewer available. The average count for an in-person ceremony is about 75, and about 52 are held per month. So that's 3900...