Joint vs separate citizenship applications by family

[cool_alex]

Need your help with deciding whether my wife, son, and I are better off applying for citizenship together or separately. My assumptions/considerations are:

1) Unlike them, I did a lot more trips outside of Canada in the last 3 years and if I am right with my assumptions, it makes me a suspect for a residency questionnaire. In that case I will be facing an extra delay, but will it also affect their processing times?

2) On the other hand, CIC may have a strong preference for the family members applying together and I think I may have seen something along those lines on some of the threads here. True or false?

Appreciate your sharing knowledge and experience!

 

[scylla]

File the applications separately. That way if you get RQ you won't hold up the processing of the applications for the rest of your family.

 

[cool_alex]

Thank you, scylla!

 

[look4d]

I have a question,in the rest of the family application they will mention him as a father/spouse , would that trigger RQ for them? , as I can see pretest RQ's are issued almost to everyone.