ATIP

[cancan269]

Hello everyone,

Calling the call center is not always helpful. So, I recently got my ATIP but couldn't understand it. Seems very difficult. It would be appreciated if some can help with understanding the notes below:

FOSS clearance: passed
Immigration clearance: passed
CSIS clearance: (left blank)
Request security clearance: (left blank)
RCMP clearance: Batch sent
Criminal clearance: Batch sent
Case stage: assess
Case status: On-Hold

Many thanks for your answers.

 

[EasyRider]

Unfortunately, there's no full understanding of ATIP notes because of lack of official guide to it.

Basically, citizenship process implies receiving several types of clearances before you can proceed to testing. If one of these clearances expires during any stage up until oath (they're generally valid for 1 year), CIC will have to re-request them even if you've passed them once already.

The clearances are:
1) RCMP-- clearance from police.
2) FOSS-- clearance from repository of people wanted by Immigration (e.g. with deportation order on them).
2) CSIS-- Canadian secret service-- ATIP field will be always left blank regardless of clearance status since it's "classified" info.

What's the specifics of the rest (immigration, request security, criminal) and how they're different from ones above I don't know, but they're along the same lines (maybe some internal CIC clearances).

Clearances are sent by CIC to corresponding agencies in batches, e.g. for 50-100 persons at once. Seems you have RCMP and criminal clearances either not completed yet or already expired after a year and in process of being re-requested now.

RCMP clearance is usually a fast one (maybe days to couple-several weeks) until there a new backlog formed recently.

"Case stage: assess" doesn't mean much from my understanding, it seems that application is "in process" generally.

"Cases status: on hold" (another status is "open") can be related to not yet assessed RQ response (officer changes "open" to "on hold" until RQ is reviewed and case moves to a further stage) and possibly to pending clearances, though I'm not sure about the latter.

Are you from Montreal, what's your timeline? Have you got an RQ?

 

[Suin]

Hello everyone,

Calling the call center is not always helpful. So, I recently got my ATIP but couldn't understand it. Seems very difficult. It would be appreciated if some can help with understanding the notes below:

FOSS clearance: passed
Immigration clearance: passed
CSIS clearance: (left blank)
Request security clearance: (left blank)
RCMP clearance: Batch sent
Criminal clearance: Batch sent
Case stage: assess
Case status: On-Hold

Many thanks for your answers.

What is your timeline?