Citizenship Regulations - Documents to Be Supplied

[Johnboy]

There seem to be some inconsistencies between the Citizenship Regulations No. 2 and what IRCC are requesting in the document checklist and instruction guide.

By my reckoning to meet the regulations, we should be sending our :-

• BirthCertificate to prove date and place of birth,
• PRCard or CoPR etc to prove date of becoming a PR.

According to the regulations there is no need for additional Personal ID

IRCC seem to be making it up as they go along.
The pre-Oct11 document checklist required the PR Card and CoPR , now they have been removed - arrgh

What do people think is going on?

for reference see http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/SOR-2015-124.pdf
Grant of Citizenship
Application under subsection 5(1) of Act

• 2 (1) An application made under subsection 5(1) of the Act must be made in the prescribed form and filed in the manner determined by the Minister, together with the following information and materials:
  • (a) evidence that establishes the applicant’s date and place of birth;
    Oops IRCC haven't specified this in the application form
    
    
  • (b) any document created by the Canadian immigration authorities, or other evidence, that establishes the date on which the applicant became a permanent resident;
    Oops IRCC haven't specified this in the application form
    
    
  • (c) evidence that establishes that the applicant meets the requirements set out in subparagraph 5(1)(c)(i) of the Act;
    
    
  • (d) whichever of the following numbers that was most recently issued to the applicant:
    
    • (i) a social insurance number,
      
      
    • (ii) an individual tax number assigned to them by the Canada Revenue Agency, or
      
      
    • (iii) a temporary tax number assigned to them by the Canada Revenue Agency;
      
  • (e) if the applicant has one of the numbers referred to in subparagraphs (d)(i) to (iii), evidence that establishes that the applicant consents to the sharing of their tax information by the Canada Revenue Agency with the Minister;
    
    
  • (f) if the applicant does not have one of the numbers referred to in subparagraphs (d)(i) to (iii), a declaration stating that they do not have such a number and were not required to file a return of income under the Income Tax Act for each of the taxation years that are fully or partially within the five years before the day on which their application is made;
    
    
  • (g) if the applicant is at least 18 years of age but is under 55 years of age on the day on which their application is made, evidence that establishes that they have an adequate knowledge of one of the official languages of Canada, including language test results or other evidence that establishes that they meet the criteria set out in section 14 of the Regulations;
    
    
  • (h) two photographs of the applicant in the format specified on the prescribed form; and
    
    
  • (i) evidence that establishes that the applicant has paid the fees required under sections 31 and 32 of the Regulations.

 

[uncomfortable]

If you have had a passport, the (a) is taken care of. But if you haven't, that's not necessarily the case.

 

[muhammad092]

I have a related question; which are biographical page(s) of passport? Is it the one with picture and date of birth? Or does it include the signature page? Or previous passport number page?

 

[razerblade]

I have a related question; which are biographical page(s) of passport? Is it the one with picture and date of birth? Or does it include the signature page? Or previous passport number page?

Both front and back pages that include your info, address, passport expiry, issued dates, signatures, etc

 

[vasvas]

The passport copy will meet the conditions for Date and Place of birth.

As for the second question, a copy of COPR or PR card was required earlier but I think they are just trying to simplify processing. They ask for the UCI and a proof of ID with name, photo and date of birth (which can be a PR card). They can do the verification themselves. In the modern world, when they probably have digital copies of all our submissions associated with the UCI, it's easy to cross check instead of asking for more documents that will need to be processed and stored.

 

[amitdi]

I have sent biographical pages of passport and both sides of driving license which meets the needs. But looking at some of the comments on this forum, my application maybe returned. Hoping that a well-trained officer looks at my docket.