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  1. 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.
  2. 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 What you saw on the internet could be outdated, or simply a different IRCC office handling things a little bit differently in another city or for a specific ceremony.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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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...
  7. 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?
  8. 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...
  9. Seym

    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    The only thing that matters is when you left actually left Canada and when you actually entered Canada. As such, it doesn't matter if the flight took 30 minutes or 3 days, and it doesn't matter what dates where printed on your plane tickets. Also, IRCC agents, as is everyone, are aware that an...
  10. Seym

    Explanation of Address History Dates.. Urgent !!

    It doesn't matter which country "takes" that day of transit. Pick Canada or India for that and move on.
  11. Seym

    Explanation of Address History Dates.. Urgent !!

    Are you speaking here about your address history? That question asks for days, not only months and years? If so, it's fine if you're a day or 2 off compared to reality to adjust to the system limitation, IRCC doesn't care really, as long as your physical presence history is precise.
  12. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Both the question of how things work VS how people perceive things work in their own personal situation are valuable, albeit maybe "contradictory". Yep, there is relative transparency and knowledge about how the whole process works, but that knowledge feels more academic and theoretical at this...
  13. Seym

    Residence and Work/School Sections in Online Citizenship Applicatiion

    Keep it simple and avoid unnecessary documents, including LOE for mundane stuff. IRCC's only goal with work history is to assess physical presence. Minor discrepancies (with an application they probably won't cross-check) are fine as long as your physical presence is both precise and with...
  14. Seym

    Residence and Work/School Sections in Online Citizenship Applicatiion

    1) Doesn't really matter, but if I had to pick something, it would be the precise answer, the parents address for that summer. 2) Students are not unemployed. 1 single entry for the whole period spent in university (or more than one if, say, bachelor and master, or master and PhD...), and...
  15. Seym

    August 2023 - Citizenship Applications

    The message right above yours clarifies how long it took for someone who was in the exact same situation.
  16. Seym

    Help Needed: Confusion on PR Date vs. Entry Date for Citizenship Application

    Yep. Put January 13 as the day you came back as a PR, and add another trip from January 13 to 18. This will give you credit for a day of physical presence you don't deserve, explain in the explanation letter what you did and why.
  17. Seym

    Help Needed: Confusion on PR Date vs. Entry Date for Citizenship Application

    In situations like this, you can put what satisfies the system (like you could add a trip to Canada on 13, and another trip leaving the country on 13 again), add an explanation letter, and have a buffer of days to cover for the ones the system made you claim but we're not days of physical...
  18. Seym

    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Congrats! Happy for you. Good to see that IRCC is very quick at wrapping up things once CSIS is done sleeping on applications.
  19. Seym

    Domestic Passport

    All internal passports aren't needed. Doesn't matter if they're plastic or not, we're submitted during PR application or not. Provide the documents you can travel with only.
  20. Seym

    request for document

    That's administration, it happens. 45 days isn't much, and definitely doesn't make you risk having to wait more than the average processing time, which should be your realistic expectation. And if for some reason, your application takes more time, it won't be for these docs if you provided all...