August 2023 - Citizenship Applications

[sams19]

I am in the same boat, haven't received the oath invitation letter but have been scheduled to attend ceremony on Nov 27th. Which IRCC number did you call on? I have been trying 1 888 242 2100 from IRCC's website but my call isn't connected to an agent citing the excessive call load.

I received the oath email this morning. Yes, that's the number. However agent will say that I will inform your visa office. Best way to reach out to your visa office is to use the test email which you have received. They may responded quickly.

Just FYI: I asked them for oath ceremony outside Canada due to medical grounds, they have approved too. Thank you all!

 

[engineeredbygod]

Your timeline is beautiful

Thank you, today we saw that our application is closed because we are canadian now.
And we applied for our passport, we will pick it up in dec 5.
Praying for you and everyone to have their oath soon. In His perfect time

 

[Manprad]

anyone here from Scarborough? I am stuck at Citizenship completed and after that no updates.
LPP is still in progress and Oath not started.

 

[desmat]

anyone here from Scarborough? I am stuck at Citizenship completed and after that no updates.
LPP is still in progress and Oath not started.

If your submission date is August and aor is September and your office is scarbourogh then don't worry because scarbourugh is slow and currently processing applications who submitted in June with aor in July..

 

[vikram7544]

Thank you, today we saw that our application is closed because we are canadian now.
And we applied for our passport, we will pick it up in dec 5.
Praying for you and everyone to have their oath soon. In His perfect time

Thank you, today we saw that our application is closed because we are canadian now.
And we applied for our passport, we will pick it up in dec 5.
Praying for you and everyone to have their oath soon. In His perfect time

congrats… did you take service canada appointment for applying passport or just walk in?? N if walk in how long it took?

 

[Islander216]

anyone here from Scarborough? I am stuck at Citizenship completed and after that no updates.
LPP is still in progress and Oath not started.

Same, join the club.

 

[Islander216]

If your submission date is August and aor is September and your office is scarbourogh then don't worry because scarbourugh is slow and currently processing applications who submitted in June with aor in July..

When do you think they'll start processing August applications?

 

[Nick_1919]

When do you think they'll start processing August applications?

Maybe January or February 2024. The best we can do is just watch how other offices are sending out invitations for oaths, certificates, etc

Nobody cares. Processing time for citizenship applications is 17 months now on the IRCC website

 

[Manprad]

If your submission date is August and aor is September and your office is scarbourogh then don't worry because scarbourugh is slow and currently processing applications who submitted in June with aor in July..

Thank you for your prompt reply. Yes , mine is Aug Application with Sept AOR. and office is Scarborough ....

 

[Nick_1919]

I see some folks from May 2023 thread saying that they got test invite from Scarborough, but Oath ceremony invite came from Mississauga only now in November.
It looks like Scarborough office is very slow and unorganized, they can't handle all applications on time. IRCC decides to transfer some applications to different offices to avoid huge delays and backlogs.

 

[Sashank]

A couple questions.
1. What’s the email address we get the instructions to download the certificate from?

2. Is there a gap between the actual LPP update and the date you see it on your status page?

 

[lovepreq]

Update Nov 11, 2023

Online
Application Sent August 6
AOR- September 14
Background Completed- September 21
Citizenship Test Invite - September 27
Mississauga Office
Test Period - October 3-23
Test completed - October 13
Test updated in tracker- October 16
Language and Prohibition- October 30
Physical Present- November 9 (Updated November 11)
Oath Ceremony- Not Started

Woke up to some good news. Oath Ceremony is December 1st. Ghost update today. Awaiting email! with instructions.

 

[desmat]

Maybe January or February 2024. The best we can do is just watch how other offices are sending out invitations for oaths, certificates, etc

Nobody cares. Processing time for citizenship applications is 9 months now on the IRCC website

Oh really they reduced to 9 months from 17 months?
Can you paste the link plz?

 

[mos2k]

Maybe January or February 2024. The best we can do is just watch how other offices are sending out invitations for oaths, certificates, etc

Nobody cares. Processing time for citizenship applications is 9 months now on the IRCC website

That's for citizenship certificate. Citizenship grant processing is still 17 months.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/check-processing-times.html

 

[lovepreq]

As my oath is scheduled for in-person… do i still get email for instruction to download citizen certificate??

How long did it took to get the instruction email for Oath Ceremony?