Citizenship Physical Presence Calculator - Missed a couple of international trips, totalling 7-ish weeks, when I was a temporary resident.

[spencer1]

Hi everyone,

I applied for Citizenship just a couple of days ago, but soon realized that I had accidentally missed two absences in the physical presence calculator. These absences don't affect my eligibility since I applied at 1225 days.

Is the best course of action to withdraw and reapply, or should I submit a webform to amend the physical presence calculator? I'm worried that if I withdraw, it'll affect my new application.

 

[Chasechs]

If you have not received AOR as yet, you should definitely withdraw the application and resubmit it. Nothing to worry about. However, regardless of webform, you will have trouble during the LPP processing. This error may very well prompt you getting a physical interview request down the line.

 

[t2026t]

If you have not received AOR as yet, you should definitely withdraw the application and resubmit it. Nothing to worry about. However, regardless of webform, you will have trouble during the LPP processing. This error may very well prompt you getting a physical interview request down the line.

Hi! thank you for your helpful reply above. I’m in a somewhat similar situation, but with a bit more complexity, and I’d really appreciate your advice.

I already received my citizenship interview invitation, and while gathering my documents and passport pages, I realized I had missed one longer trip and also had an incorrect departure date for another trip in my original application. After recalculating, I may now fall slightly below (1080 days) the 1095-day requirement.

IRCC has already asked me to send all passport pages by email before the interview. At this point, I’m unsure what is the best approach:
– submit a web form with a corrected physical presence calculation,
– reply to the email where I’ll be sending passport photos/stamps and explain the correction there, or
– wait and explain it directly during the interview.

In your experience, when the interview is already scheduled and documents are being requested, is a web form still the preferred route, or is it acceptable to clarify through the document-request email or at the interview itself?

Thanks again, your insight is really appreciated.

 

[Seym]

IRCC has already asked me to send all passport pages by email before the interview. At this point, I’m unsure what is the best approach:
– submit a web form with a corrected physical presence calculation,
– reply to the email where I’ll be sending passport photos/stamps and explain the correction there, or
– wait and explain it directly during the interview.

Neither of those.
You are NOT eligible for citizenship, and your application will be refused regardless of how you deal with IRCC's request.

You may want to answer IRCC and provide the passport copy to not let their question hanging , but the only thing you absolutely need to do is to tell them is that you're withdrawing your application due to the calculation mistake you made.
Mistakes that keep a person above 1095 days may add more scrunity to an application, those that put it under 1095 days doom it to fail and every day spent on it just delays the inevitable. Waiting for an interview or for a decision will do no good here as the decision can only be negative, and you don't want a negative decision many months or potentially years from now.

Just withdraw and reapply, and send a webform saying that you'll attach what they requested in your future application, if you want to be extremely thorough about it. Good luck with the second application.

 

[t2026t]

Neither of those.
You are NOT eligible for citizenship, and your application will be refused regardless of how you deal with IRCC's request.

You may want to answer IRCC and provide the passport copy to not let their question hanging , but the only thing you absolutely need to do is to tell them is that you're withdrawing your application due to the calculation mistake you made.
Mistakes that keep a person above 1095 days may add more scrunity to an application, those that put it under 1095 days doom it to fail and every day spent on it just delays the inevitable. Waiting for an interview or for a decision will do no good here as the decision can only be negative, and you don't want a negative decision many months or potentially years from now.

Just withdraw and reapply, and send a webform saying that you'll attach what they requested in your future application, if you want to be extremely thorough about it. Good luck with the second application.

Thank you for your answer! I figured so. I think I’ll go to the interview and wait until they reject my application because there is another family member that applied with me (over 60 years and never left the country) and I wouldn’t want to withdraw their application since we both applied at the same time. Will update you guys! Just waiting for the inevitable