April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

[afaisalnwo]

For my wife's GCMS notes, under location it says grant: RAU. Would you know what it means? Is it Risk assessment unit?

Under clearance, it now says both security and criminality clearance passed. CIT CSIS screening status says no reportable trace.

RAU is Risk assessment unit. If both Security and Criminality is passed then I think the most common hurdle is clear. All the best!

 

[tanjid12]

RAU is Risk assessment unit. If both Security and Criminality is passed then I think the most common hurdle is clear. All the best!

I hope so. Don't know why it is still taking too long.

 

[ruka]

Hi friends,
I have started a common thread for all of us waiting for more than a year to get together and share our timelines and progress.
Please add and update your case in the table in that thread.

R

Thread 'citizenship applications stuck for too long - Those with AOR before May 2025 - Let's gather here and update'

May 15, 2026

Hi,
I am starting this thread for those who are waiting for too long more than a year with AOR before April 2025. Let's get together and share our experiences and updates.
The below is a table we can use.
Please reply to the thread and a new row for your case and update. Also please update the table as you see some movements in your case.
I have added my case.
I hope this would be helpful for us to share and see how each other is progressing in this journery.

Many Thanks

Name

AOR

Application history

the date all items were completed

the date you updated...

• ruka
• Replies: 18
• Forum: Citizenship

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[mrkusa]

Interview Requested on Tracker: November 18, 2025.
Interview Scheduled on Tracker: November 26, 2025.
New Interview Scheduled on Tracker: December 08, 2025 (due to travelling).
Language changed to Completed on Tracker: December 11, 2025.
Prohibitions changed to Completed on Tracker: December 11, 2025.

what did they ask?

 

[dykex]

what did they ask?

It was mainly an identity check. They asked me about my name, date of birth, age, current address, and when I first landed in Canada. The interview lasted about five minutes.

The questions can vary from person to person depending on their individual journey and circumstances in Canada.

 

[azhar1989]

For those of us stuck at CSIS review, is it now safe to assume that we won’t hear back until mid-late 2027?

 

[ChuckNorris]

For those of us stuck at CSIS review, is it now safe to assume that we won’t hear back until mid-late 2027?

Yes, because it seems like screening takes 2.5 yeas now, because Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 report their BG's cleared now.
Therefore Oct 2027 looks like a realistic estimate.

 

[Jinnys123]

Hi everyone, so i just finished my interview and the lady said she’s waiting for my security clearance. I thought they had moved past that and that why they scheduled an interview. Has anyone had experienced this before??

Hi, did you get an update, I was told exactly the same but I already have my background completed, please let me know how it turned out for u.

 

[bassamkaaki]

I applied for ATIP notes to check on what is delaying my citizenship application. Applied in April 2025, test is done, language and presence is also done. Stuck in BG and Prohibitions. So I decided to ask for my ATIP on April 27th 2026, then received on May 19th they needed a different ID than the one I sent. I sent my passport copy the same day (May 19th). Since May 19 I have not heard from ATIP - IRCC Unit!! It says they will respond in 30 calendar days not business days and it is almost 33 days now since they received my last ID requested. Anyone faced this before? Thanks.

 

[armoured]

I applied for ATIP notes to check on what is delaying my citizenship application. Applied in April 2025, test is done, language and presence is also done. Stuck in BG and Prohibitions. So I decided to ask for my ATIP on April 27th 2026, then received on May 19th they needed a different ID than the one I sent. I sent my passport copy the same day (May 19th). Since May 19 I have not heard from ATIP - IRCC Unit!! It says they will respond in 30 calendar days not business days and it is almost 33 days now since they received my last ID requested. Anyone faced this before? Thanks.

There are sometimes delays. They're supposed to notify you, with maximum 30 additional days. Doesn't always happen. You can complain to the privacy ombudsman.

 

[bassamkaaki]

There are sometimes delays. They're supposed to notify you, with maximum 30 additional days. Doesn't always happen. You can complain to the privacy ombudsman.

Thank you for the reply. What did you mean by “They're supposed to notify you, with maximum 30 additional days”? Do you think I should give them like another week and then start the compliant?

 

[abff08f4813c]

Thank you for the reply. What did you mean by “They're supposed to notify you, with maximum 30 additional days”? Do you think I should give them like another week and then start the compliant?

Dealing with CBSA, the first time I got an ATIP request fulfilled within the first 30 days. But that was many years ago.

Later, a second request to them - they sent me the notification late, like 34 or 35 days after I had applied, that they were going to need the extra 30, but I still got the response before 60 days.

With IRCC, I heard nothing from them for so many months that I forgot about it until the email showed up. No notification that they'd be taking extra time or anything. Also, that request was not fulfilled until a year and a quarter! (Though, rather than a "standard" request like I raised with CBSA I had raised a very detailed, "gimme photocopies of everything on my file" request that took forever to go through. Interestingly enough, I had put in the ATIP request before we got confirmation that my spouse was added, and in the meantime I got an invite to eCOPR without my spouse - when I finally got the file I could see all the notes about them trying to add my spouse and stuff, as well as the attempted to issue my PR in the meanwhile. So it seems my ATIP request and my PR stuff went thru concurrently, one was not paused until the other was done.)

You can complain to the privacy ombudsman.

Does this do anything though? I know the ombudsman compiles a report and stuff, but beyond making it public that IRCC is often way behind the deadlines on its ATIP requests (which we already knew!)....

 

[armoured]

Thank you for the reply. What did you mean by “They're supposed to notify you, with maximum 30 additional days”? Do you think I should give them like another week and then start the compliant?

They send you an email stating that under such and such provision, they are allowed an extra thirty days. I don't know about whether complaints work - I take it on faith we should do them anyway.

 

[armoured]

Does this do anything though? I know the ombudsman compiles a report and stuff, but beyond making it public that IRCC is often way behind the deadlines on its ATIP requests (which we already knew!)....

I don't know.

 

[abff08f4813c]

> Does this actually do anything though?

I don't know.

("-ࡇ-)

I don't know about whether complaints work - I take it on faith we should do them anyway.

Why? I assumed that the ombudsman had a way of checking and seeing how long IRCC took to answer cases and stuff for ATIP and could compile the relevant statistics. But if it's the case that the ombudsman doesn't actually know about these things unless we report each one individually to them, then, it makes for a much stronger case about the need to go about filing such complaints.