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So the passport office said they would mail my passport on Oct. 6th. Canada Post left a delivery notice in my mailbox yesterday Oct 11th (I don't think they attempted to contact me because I was home and waiting) Picked up the passport today. Pleasantly surprised with how smooth this went...

Just adding another data point here (Vancouver, new citizen first time passport application): - Have proof of travel for early December - Visited the passport office on Sept 13th at 11am. On arrival, they immediately told me they will schedule me for an appointment. - Appointment for Sept 21st...

Received the cert exactly one week from the oath ceremony. The only part of the entire process that went quicker than expected.

Did the oath today. Took ~2.5 hours of which nearly 2 hours was waiting in Zoom rooms. Glad the entire process is over. Whoever is maintaining the spreadsheet, my last entries will be Oath letter Aug 4th and Oath ceremony Aug 24. Thanks all for your support throughout this process. This forum...

Got the email finally. It is online using Zoom. Email said it’s at at 8am (TIME ZONE). I replied to ask what time zone. They got back to me quick at least… and said it’s EDT. My time zone is PDT. So 5am my time. At this point I can’t help but laugh at this whole thing.

Not sure. Haven’t received any email yet.

Just received oath invite for Aug 24 which will be just over the current 27 month processing period.

Two months after DM here as well. Still nothing. Will be 27 months in 3 weeks.

Still waiting on oath here. Emailed Ottawa office and no reply yet. Nice to see even once you finally get citizenship the fun doesn’t end - people around here are camping out overnight at the passport office to get a passport.

Still waiting here. Citizenship ceremony is "Not started" I haven't received any email. Looking at the huge range in times for DM to Oath Letter in the tracker is not filling me with confidence that I'll hear anything anytime soon.

Prohibitions updated for me today to completed. Now I just have Citizenship ceremony not started. Hopefully this won’t take another six months…

Finally some movement. Everything is now updated to complete except Prohibitions (In progress) and Citizenship ceremony (Not started).

I did earlier in the process and they didn’t really tell me much. Nothing irregular, and an inquiry said basically be patient, backlog, COVID delays, blah blah. Now my PR card has expired so I guess I need to renew it since I plan on travelling at the end of year. So photos + another fee + more...

Over 2 years here too. Going on 7 months since Citizenship test completed and nothing but silence. Frustrated can't begin to describe my feeling over this whole process. COVID-19 cannot be an excuse 2 years later.

Still no updates here. Test status changed to completed on Nov 2nd and nothing since then. I’ve tried reaching out to MP, contacting IRCC, emailing the office (Ottawa) inquiring about status, didn’t change anything. Same non-response about COVID-19 affecting processing times.

My MP got back to me saying IRCC told them current processing time is 27 months. So unless there is a reason for urgent processing keep waiting and ask us again in September if it’s not done by then.

Just emailed my MP today to see if they can give IRCC a push. Apparently most MPs in major city districts have a person on staff dedicated to dealing with immigration issues, so if you are like me and nearing the "two year club" it might be worth a shot.

I don't think so. The "12 months" is pretty meaningless these days according to their site: "The 12-month processing time is how long it usually took us to process a complete application before COVID-19." They also say: Applications received after we meet our yearly limit may have to wait...

“Due to events in Afghanistan, then COVID, now Ukraine, there is a delay in processing your application. We will get to it once there is world peace and an end to all disease.” - IRCC, probably

Also over 4 months since test was completed and nothing since. I remember naive me back in November thinking early 2022 at the latest this would be over. Now fingers crossed it will be this summer but I've learned not to hold my breath.