April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

[afaisalnwo]

How is your BG completed when the interviewer told you they are waiting for security clearance? BG is 2 parts, criminality and security. If both pass then your BG turns green!!! If BG is completed then both criminality and security should have cleared.

Yes, I have the same question. I had this same understanding.. My Security clearance is pending hence BG is in progress. IRCC is so weird.

 

[bassamkaaki]

Yes, I have the same question. I had this same understanding.. My Security clearance is pending hence BG is in progress. IRCC is so weird.

I guess there is a missing link in what she said to him and what he understood, if his BG turned green that is.

 

[switch4ay]

How is your BG completed when the interviewer told you they are waiting for security clearance? BG is 2 parts, criminality and security. If both pass then your BG turns green!!! If BG is completed then both criminality and security should have cleared.

That’s what I thought, my BG has been completed since June 2025.

 

[switch4ay]

Yes, I have the same question. I had this same understanding.. My Security clearance is pending hence BG is in progress. IRCC is so weird.im surprised

Yes, I have the same question. I had this same understanding.. My Security clearance is pending hence BG is in progress. IRCC is so weird.

Exactly what I thought, my BG has been completed since June 2025, it got me confused when she said she’s just waiting for my security clearance.

 

[onward28332]

Exactly what I thought, my BG has been completed since June 2025, it got me confused when she said she’s just waiting for my security clearance

You should have asked her that, since your BG is clear.

 

[armoured]

How is your BG completed when the interviewer told you they are waiting for security clearance? BG is 2 parts, criminality and security. ...

I don't think this is true.

There are aspects of BG which likely overlap with 'security', but there are also things in prohibitions that only 'security services' would be able to begin to look into, mostly because sources of information and evidence are outside of Canada.

So I would say in no case should anyone think that because they got BG cleared, that 'security' is complete.

 

[bassamkaaki]

I don't think this is true.

There are aspects of BG which likely overlap with 'security', but there are also things in prohibitions that only 'security services' would be able to begin to look into, mostly because sources of information and evidence are outside of Canada.

So I would say in no case should anyone think that because they got BG cleared, that 'security' is complete.

The reason why I said that is because, IRCC agent told me that my criminality has passed (done) and security is still in progress. My BG on tracker still shows in progress and is not green yet. So, this explains the fact that it is two parts and not one. Once BG turns fully green then BG is complete with both parts.

 

[armoured]

The reason why I said that is because, IRCC agent told me that my criminality has passed (done) and security is still in progress. My BG on tracker still shows in progress and is not green yet. So, this explains the fact that it is two parts and not one. Once BG turns fully green then BG is complete with both parts.

I was unclear in what I posted and I misread your post. My mistake. I thought you were saying that security is complete if BG is complete - a thing some here believe, and I see it all the time, so that's why I read it that way.

That said, your point that 'security is complete' if BG is green is also not true.

My understanding: security overlaps with BG and prohibitions. Plenty of files get cleared (green) for BG when prohibitions are not yet done, and that does not mean that 'security' is not still in process. There are - or at least there seem to be - distinct 'security' aspects for both. I do not know the exact split or what they consider 'distinct' between the two. (Most likely it's not a simple split)

My /guess/ only is that the security aspect of BG is from a simple evaluation and database query (combined with previous applications and flags that may be in the account), and that evaluation gives some kind of conclusion or recommendation for the level of security background checks needed, and if that conclusion (recommendation?) is in some lower risk group (meaning roughly 'no significant traces/no obvious issues'), the BG flag may turn green. (Or possibly it turns green after some human review by some 'security' delegated/authorized personnel).

But again, only a guess. And if subsequent level of inquiry (for prohibitions) turns anything up needing more detailed review, could still take long/longer.

FWIW.