April 2025 - Citizenship Applications
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I don't recall if someone has already answered this, but: has any applicant who was requested fingerprints gotten to LPP complete yet?
It's frustrating for me. I got FP almost certainly simply for having a super common name and a clean background. (Perhaps I was also just picked at random?) But it seems like if you get FP it may delay things compared to applicants who didn't need to submit FP...
Most cases the FP request does not delay things much. For some, yes - but they're probably in group that would have had security other issues anyway.
They asked during Oath if I was travelling any time soon? "I said no".
They made it clear that you should NOT be travelling out of Canada until passport received as you cannot re enter without one.
Made the point very clear and then I cut up my PR card into 4 parts. Received my passport 2 weeks later.
Hope that helps?!
Except for US citizens, US green card holders, and the like (for which this is really easy), this is really hard to do....
According to https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...l-canadian-citizens-visit-canada.html#findOut it may be possible to apply for a "special authorization" to get an eTA on your old country passport.
This is sound advice.
Hypothetically though, since we're getting the citizenship e-certificate downloaded from the web portal, couldn't OP leave anyways (on old country passport) and then apply at the nearest Canadian embassy or consulate abroad with the e-cert and other docs? Then after picking up the passport from the embassy, use that to travel back?
Or, apply for a passport the same day/day after getting the e-certificate and then leave, but make sure the address goes to a trusted friend or family member. When the passport arrives in the mail, then have it FedEx'd over.
Wanna caution that I'm not suggesting that OP do this - I was just asking a hypothetical.
I'm going to attempt to give a simple answer: you should either ask to delay your oath ceremony, change your departure date from Canada, or accept that you will have to apply for and get a passport abroad (or possibly one or two other ways to get authorization / return to Canada) - and that may take 4-8 weeks, depending on location and other.
If you do apply to change oath date - best if you know when you will be returning, and accept whatever type of ceremony they give you.
-If at in-person ceremony, you should get a physical citizenship certificate. You are a citizen at that point - BUT they will warn you that you can't use the certificate to apply for a few days (whether two or three days, different info out there, but reality is - too tight for a departure date on the 14th).
-If you can delay your departure for a week, it might be tight but do-able. (Given the 21st is a sunday, departure late 22nd might give you a bit of needed time). This assumes you're in a location where you can get to a physical in-person passport office, and you'll have to ask for quicker processing than standard.
-If you have to apply for a passport abroad - you will need extra time. That's fine if you're travelling for a couple months or so.
There are some minor (less common) exceptions - if you can cross at a land border, you'd be fine with ID and the citizenship certificate. If you have a US passport - fine. You might be able to get the special authorization - I think only for holders of visa waiver passports.
But again: if none of those are realistic, and dependent on your priorities, either delay the citizenship ceremony or delay your departure to give you time to get the passport.
Good luck.
I just received an email to attend an online interview on MS teams. The mail says please read and sign the attached consent form if you wish to attend the event..There's no form attached .The attachment only has details related to the interview, no consent form. Can anyone who has had an online interview please comment .
Wait a few days, I think they just have a tendency to send these out separately.
I guess it depends on the definition of "much". Certainly the fact that very few (perhaps none?) on this thread who got FP request have yet to get to the oath, while those who got to the oath weren't asked, does imply that the request itself does delay things - the question is indeed by how much.
Like I said, I'm in the group with a clean background and should have no security issues. So if I'm delayed by say one month, I'll be like no biggie. On the other hand, if the request causes me to go beyond the posted processing times, well... that'll feel like more of a biggie to me, as I'm one of those outside of the "group that would have had security other issues anyway."
I suppose a big part is just not knowing how much the delay costs. If we had even an accurate ballpark figure, it might not feel so bad.
In previous months, it has had little impact. I can't say for sure it hasn't changed.
"Clean background", as I'm sure you know, is not the sole issue. Country of origin and other things like work history very much can be big ones. (I know for a certainty my spouse has a 'clean' background - but I also know the reasons her relevant clearances might not be as quick as, say, her children (adults from same country).
Put differently: not everyone understands what might be security issues. Many are kidding themselves about this.
That said: yes, there are also mistakes made and things can be held up for no good reason. But it seems rather infrequent for eg EU/UK/NZ/AU/NATO/USA passport holders (some exceptions within them - both country and why I said 'infrequent').
Again, I'm mostly going by what I noticed from previous months (while I've been following, really only about the last year) - for the majority of those who get (got) FP requests, was a minor delay, perhaps 1-3 months. I've not tried to compile this data to test however, so caveat lector.
For those held up beyond the currently posted* processing times - yep, you're one with an issue, whether mistaken or not.
* I'm firmly of the view that while one hears different opinions, it's the currently posted processing time that matters, not what the time estimate was when you applied.
I know many cases like that. If someone’s from a country with security red flag they’d usually know that’s the reason - other than that, IRCC also conducts random checks/interviews for “quality control” purposes, these may well be more common than actual red flags.
There are also backlog/human errors. Quite a few people who applied in Apr/May/June were stuck and all the sudden they are moving now, that includes my case.
Wish that was me, but mine still seems to be stuck.
Right - but I'm from that list from armoured above, hence doesn't apply to me.
Hmm, interesting. So I might have been a random quality control and thus moving slower. Is it possible to know this from GCMS notes?
yes, you will be able to know if your security is a comprehensive check from GCMS
It will just say what type it is on your security sub activities, a normal security check will say CIT CSIS Screening, and a comprehensive check will cite the specific section of the citizenship act they are checking for
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