April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

[moscatojuices]

If if matters so much you have to scream in caps lock, well, I have amazing news. You have the option to stay a PR for life. That way you can keep your gold medal and always use it if you want. Just skip the ceremony or go but don't pronounce the oath...

This is indeed an excellent proposition.

 

[abff08f4813c]

Update - I just noticed on the tracker that near the end of Feb (just a little time ago), apparently things moved for me. Background and prohibitions still waiting, but physical presence and language completed.

Oddly, the tracker is saying ti has 7 new updates, with stuff dated last summer being a "new update" (i.e. everything on the timeline is marked as new) but I really only had the two updates at the end of Feb forPP and L getting green.

 

[bassamkaaki]

Update - I just noticed on the tracker that near the end of Feb (just a little time ago), apparently things moved for me. Background and prohibitions still waiting, but physical presence and language completed.

Oddly, the tracker is saying ti has 7 new updates, with stuff dated last summer being a "new update" (i.e. everything on the timeline is marked as new) but I really only had the two updates at the end of Feb forPP and L getting green.

This is normal. When a new update takes place, all the prior ones get updated alike. Also, I have noticed that those who get their physical presence and language updated ( I am one of them) will have a longer wait time to have their background and prohibitions cleared. I just find it really unjust when there are those that get their background cleared just after their AOR’s are received i.e, between 3 days to 3 months while others are waiting and waiting…………..

 

[abff08f4813c]

This is normal. When a new update takes place, all the prior ones get updated alike.

Thanks for confirming.

Also, I have noticed that those who get their physical presence and language updated ( I am one of them) will have a longer wait time to have their background and prohibitions cleared.

Dang it, that's me too now!

I just find it really unjust when there are those that get their background cleared just after their AOR’s are received i.e, between 3 days to 3 months while others are waiting and waiting…………..

So there are two possible reasons why, in my case, it might be taking longer (setting aside the possibility that I was chosen at random as a control). I have a super common name (think John Smith and you get the idea) so maybe they have to work harder to filter out the stuff they see that actually comes from other people?

Also, I visited the US a couple of times in the last couple of years. Not since 2024 - but I guess that the US, being in the state it is right now, is probably giving them a headache in terms of sharing docs and info (slowing down my ability to get cleared).

Surrendering the card is EVEN WORSE!!!!

This is also me. Like, this is a valuable and sentimental relic. With old passports, they just put a couple of hole punches and give it back. Why can't they just do the same thing here?

If you conveniently lose your card, they do include in the email the "Solemn Declaration Concerning a Lost, Stolen, Destroyed, or Never-Received PR Card".

Hmm... or "destroyed". So if I get a suitable toddler, and this toddler ends up hole punching my PR card just the day before the ceremony, I can fill out the declaration and keep my hole punched card?

This is indeed an excellent proposition.

Hmm.. in fairness, if it was like drivers licenses, where I have a whole bunch of expired ones, I wouldn't mind surrendering the very last PR card as much. But it's just because this is the only one I've ever had.

 

[afaisalnwo]

Looks like only a few unlucky souls are still stuck in this group. Hopefully God will have mercy on us soon and grant us passage to the other side.