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I can confirm that they are serious about waiting two business days before you go for your passport. My ceremony was last Friday, the 31st. I really wanted to go in on Tuesday but held off until Wednesday. I went to the Passport Office in Gatineau. I mentioned to the clerk that my ceremony was...

I write this to you as a Canadian Citizen. Yowser! :) ECAS went to Decision Made on December 25. Received Invitation to appear at the Ottawa office for Ceremony by email on January 13 - ceremony scheduled for January 31. The invitation did not speak to the number of guests you could bring...

This link - https://secure.cic.gc.ca/CeremonySearch/search-recherche-eng.aspx is the IRCC page for finding a Ceremony. You can search by location or by date. You might want to give them a call.

I received my Oath Ceremony invite by email this morning. The ceremony is January 31 which is, oddly enough, exactly one year to the day from when my application was received. The ceremony will be in Ottawa.

I got a Christmas surprise. Haven't checked my status for a couple of weeks. I'm now Decision Made! Just waiting for the mail.

I find the business of exit records interesting. When I renewed my PR card five years ago I made a request to CBSA asking for entry and exit records for the previous five years. CBSA responded with all my entry records but pointed out that Canada does not collect exit information. Maybe that...

To recap, I'm the guy whose PR card was expiring in mid-November and and to leave Canada for a week in December. Update: In spite of being told it wouldn't be an issue, I opted to renew my PR card. Sent the application in early October. Received the new card on November 4. So now I can come...

If you were in Canada on a Work Permit you would have something to worry about. But you are not. You are a Permanent Resident. Permanent. You can lose your job. You can, if qualified, get EI. You can do everything except vote. Forget that lady and that job. Go find a new and better one. It...

I've got a home in a province but if I get a job offer in different province, I will be relocating to the new province only for this job and will have my permanent address in the current province. Which province should I be filing my taxes for at the end of the year? You pay provincial taxes...

Umm.. this can't be good! Though I'm sure they are doing the best they can under the circumastances. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/bed-bug-infestation-forces-partial-closure-of-gatineau-government-building-1.4629301

What binds us together in this group is our lazer focus on that moment when a government functionary looks at our file and decides this one is good to go. I'll share a side story to give your mind a moment of distraction. I sent in my citizenship application in January. IRCC says on their...

The OP said Seniors to apply. The supplied linked page says "If you’re 18 to 54 years of age on the day you sign your application, you must show that you can speak and listen at a specific level in one of these languages." It would appear if the OP is over 54 years of age the language...

There is a spreadsheet that tracks all the steps for all the applicants brok en out by months. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V2kMI1QtzlMj8k4shG0IBLnS8GqOhoJDkem5HloNe0I/edit#gid=1316748968 An applicant's various steps are often seen at the end of their posts in their signature such...

I live in Gatineau. The office processing my application is Ottawa. It occurs me the single word question Location can be ambiguous. The missing bits referenced are in my entry in the January spreadsheet.

Unless I'm looking in the wrong place there are two info bits missing for me. Test invite sent July 8, 2019 Interview July 11, 2019 They may not be big bits but they're important to me.

There's at least one Ottawa applicant in this group who's ECAS says " we sent you a test notice" or whatever. Mine says that. I applied January 24. Received test notice in early June. Had interview June 11 (no test - I'm too old). Shows In Process since then. My PR card expires in November...

I had my meeting in Ottawa Thursday, the 11th. We confirmed I'm an old fart and could skip the test. The interviewer checked my PR card, Driver's Licence, and current and most recently expired passports. General questions about my employment and relatively many trips to the US. Asked if I had...

It showed as a Gatineau number. I live in Gatineau with Ottawa across the river. There was no name i.e. IRCC. Since I'm used to getting calls from clients on their cell phones, I'm used to seeing Number-only calls and answered it. Glad I did. And, as promised, I received the email just before...

I received a phone call today from CIC asking if I would be available for an interview late next week. (Of course I will!) She confirmed my email address and said I will receive an email Monday with the details of where to go and what to bring. I asked her if I would be needing to renew my PR...

I don't believe I submitted my information for the January, 2019, spreadsheet. User: msweet42 App type: Single Loc: Gatineau, QC Days: 1694 App Sent: 24 Jan 2019 App Received: 31 Jan 2019 AOR: 27 Mar 2019 In Process: 24 Apr 2019