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This dude wasn't a citizen in first place. He got the Canadian Passport issued in error. His case is clear. Canada won't throw out anybody into statelessness if a person is a Canadian Citizen only (not dual citizen). If he/she commits terrible crime, Canada has laws to book them and will...

You do not have a choice to select your local office, but if you live in Oakville, your possibilities of getting Mississauga office are higher, unless CIC comes up with any workload distribution strategy and change some local office allocation rules (You can understand that May-2015 is still far...

My office was Mississauga.

I went through similar situation. Scored 20/20 then met citizenship officer. She was thoroughly checking the accuracy of absences declared on residence calculator by verifying them against the entry/exit stamps on passport. While doing that, I also told her that if she has any doubts, I have...

This is a right step to bring to the attention of CIC Minister about the inconsistent timelines for application processing in different regions of Canada. Citizenship is a Federal matter so there should be uniformity in the processing time. Processing timelines favouring one region or province...

It depends on every local office and citizenship officer who interviews you. Usually, citizenship officer's primary goal is to ensure that you have met the residency days, they do this by thoroughly verifying your passport stamps and the absences you have declared. Unless you have a complex...

Final update on eCAS showed up today... Citizenship We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on March 17, 2014. We sent you a letter acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on March 17, 2014. Please consider...

Yes, I wish you were right, but the sharing info over border is done only with USA as of now, frequent trips elsewhere could still mean a RQ trigger. Secondly, frequent visits to USA by itself may not, but combined with say, visits during unemployment time, or inconsistent entries, road trips...

LOL... or probably someone whom CIC does not want to entertain longer. Thanks anyways!!

RQ has been discussed many times on this forum, anyways this is the list of reasons I compiled that could possibly trigger RQ in ones case. If you fall in any of the following categories or combinations of categories listed below then it may trigger RQ in your case... 1) Self-Employed, Own a...

Yes. Local office Toronto. Your timeline looks very similar to mine. I first came to Canada in 2008, landed in 2012 and citizen by Aug-2014. Cheers!

Hi All, Finally I took oath today and became a Canadian Citizen. I would like to thank all the people on this forum who helped me by sharing their experiences. CIC has always been unpredictable, some applications go at rocket speed and some others at snails one. I consider myself very fortunate...

Hi ottawaResident, We were in same boat during PR processing, if you remember.... great 3 months. Well, I wish you all the best and same speed for your citizenship application processing. Cheers!!!

Trend is changing in Canada buddy. Citizenship application processing in 140 days is possible.

Yes there is a Oath Date, usually Mississauga office gives oath date anywhere from 2 to 10 days after the test/interview date. My test was today (29-Jul) and Oath invite is for 07-Aug (but the oath invite letter has the condition stated above.)

Friends, Mississauga office is handing out oath letters to applicants on the day of test/interview if everything goes normal. But these oath letters start with wordings as below... "The citizenship Judge reserves the final decision on each application. You will be contacted and instructed not...

Had my Citizenship Test and Interview today. Passed with 20/20 score. Oath invite handed for 07-AUG-2014 My timeline now looks like... MAR-17-2014 => Application Received APR-29-2014 => Processing Started MAY-20-2014 => AOR in mail JUN-05-2014 => Received Line disappeared JUL-29-2014 =>...

Following is the list of reasons I compiled that could trigger RQ... If you fall in any of the following categories then it may trigger RQ in your case... 1) Self-Employed, Own a business 2) Work on contracts basis, freelancing 3) Unemployed for some period during the 4 years of residence...

Congratulations!!!

Hi Chikloo, Sorry to hear about your RQ. Do you fall in any of the following categories that could have triggered RQ in your case... 1) Self-Employed, Own a business 2) Work on contracts basis, freelancing 3) Unemployed for some period during the 4 years of residence history 4) Too many...