April 2018 - Citizenship Applicant

[bucajack]

Does any of you had the same situation ?

As far as I can tell kids will always remain as IP after your DM. I'm not sure about your wife though.

 

[xylene]

Cleared our tests today (Dec 17) !
Interview was done in 2-3 mins.

 

[nurgazik]

Cleared our tests today (Dec 17) !
Interview was done in 2-3 mins.

congrats! what did they ask on the interview?

 

[xylene]

congrats! what did they ask on the interview?

Where we work and some travel questions, but did not verify the history (which I had prepared).
I had missed one of the questions on my kids application (something regarding if I've traveled before 1977 outside of Canada) which the interviewer asked me to sign and answer.
People were very friendly and welcoming (Scarborough Office)

 

[xylene]

One thing to ensure in interviews is to answer in complete sentences (which the examiner would remind you). So if you get a question 'Where do you work' ensure that you answer as 'I work at XYZ for the last X years/months' . Because essentially they are testing your language.

 

[NBUNB]

Where we work and some travel questions, but did not verify the history (which I had prepared).
I had missed one of the questions on my kids application (something regarding if I've traveled before 1977 outside of Canada) which the interviewer asked me to sign and answer.
People were very friendly and welcoming (Scarborough Office)

Mine was totally different. The interviewer was nice but she checked every single stamp on my passports. In my application I didn't mention about the day trip to the United States as I wasn't out of the country for a day for those day trip but she asked me to write down those days and sign. And she had a very quick chat about my work.

Anyway, did you get the oath invitation with the exam+test invite?

 

[Carola1]

Did they send you any email while the decision was made or you could see that only online ?

no email for decision made. online changes from In Process to Decision Made

 

[Aminebrx]

Hi,

Test passed on Dec 13th (Montreal office).
Decision made on Dec 15th.

The interviewer said to expect the oath letter within 3 months.

 

[macwhitby]

Hi,
Kindly update the tracker.
Both of us passed the test on Dec 8th with 20/20. Online status changed to "Decision Made (DM)" on December 18th 2018.
Good luck !!

 

[xylene]

Mine was totally different. The interviewer was nice but she checked every single stamp on my passports. In my application I didn't mention about the day trip to the United States as I wasn't out of the country for a day for those day trip but she asked me to write down those days and sign. And she had a very quick chat about my work.

Anyway, did you get the oath invitation with the exam+test invite?

No, they said probably the first two weeks in Jan because of the holidays.

 

[xylene]

Online status change to Decision made Dec 18 (for the parents) Kid is still In process. @Libu Please update the tracker thanks.

 

[nurgazik]

Hi all,

Went to the test on December 17. The test was much easier than the online simulators. Had 2-3 minute interview with a friendly officer.
Checked ECAS today (December 18) - Decision Made. Child's status is still in process.

@Libu could you please kindly update the spreadsheet. Thank you.

 

[fruitball4u]

Hi everyone,

I had my citizenship test and interview yesterday (December 17th) in Vancouver. Passed with 17/20. The interview lasted about ten minutes. He was friendly, and asked me a handful of questions such as:

- Where do I currently live? (I'm now in Washington, so this may have brought up the additional questions)
- What are my ties to Canada?
- Do I have any family in Canada?
- How did I track my travels back and forth to the states since they don't stamp my passport? (For this one, I had taken Boltbus/Amtrak almost every time, and I printed out every single ticket that I had and labelled each by date with a sticky note. He asked to see them, and I said, "I tried to make it easy for you!" and he laughed, flipped through like three pages, then handed it back to me.)

I also recently divorced, so asked him if I was able to have the certificate in my maiden name - he asked to see the divorce certificate, and then said that yes, he could change it.

At the end, he told me that I passed the interview and that I'd receive my Oath date within 2-4 months.

I tried logging in to ECAS today, and it keeps saying that my information isn't correct, so now I need to see what happened. I wonder if he spelled my last name wrong or something when he changed it in the system? Has anyone else run into this? I've tried both my maiden and married last name, and my UCI and my App ID, and it's still coming back saying that it doesn't recognized me - hadn't had issues logging in previous to yesterday.

 

[alexpritie]

Good Morning Everyone, Till now no test date received.We applied in April but my friend sent the application in Sept 2018 and he already did his test yesterday.
Any April Applicant received a Test Date recently?

 

[NBUNB]

Hi everyone,

I had my citizenship test and interview yesterday (December 17th) in Vancouver. Passed with 17/20. The interview lasted about ten minutes. He was friendly, and asked me a handful of questions such as:

- Where do I currently live? (I'm now in Washington, so this may have brought up the additional questions)
- What are my ties to Canada?
- Do I have any family in Canada?
- How did I track my travels back and forth to the states since they don't stamp my passport? (For this one, I had taken Boltbus/Amtrak almost every time, and I printed out every single ticket that I had and labelled each by date with a sticky note. He asked to see them, and I said, "I tried to make it easy for you!" and he laughed, flipped through like three pages, then handed it back to me.)

I also recently divorced, so asked him if I was able to have the certificate in my maiden name - he asked to see the divorce certificate, and then said that yes, he could change it.

At the end, he told me that I passed the interview and that I'd receive my Oath date within 2-4 months.

I tried logging in to ECAS today, and it keeps saying that my information isn't correct, so now I need to see what happened. I wonder if he spelled my last name wrong or something when he changed it in the system? Has anyone else run into this? I've tried both my maiden and married last name, and my UCI and my App ID, and it's still coming back saying that it doesn't recognized me - hadn't had issues logging in previous to yesterday.

I am guessing they haven't updated your profile in the system. Sometimes it takes a day or two to update information from their end. If they don't update within this week, you might want to call the call center and if they have any answers for you.