November 2024 - Citizenship Applications

[Ghapharr]

Update:

Language skills and Prohibitions marked as completed on February 28, 2025. Tracker updated today March 4, 2025.

 

[DocumentJourney]

Background marked complete in tracker today (Mar 4). Shows date completed Feb 28.

I was in FPR cohort that got stuck at RCMP from at least Feb 7 to Feb 21. I have a November AOR, but October application date, so my main data is in that October thread. Just sharing here due to the FPR cohort I'm sure many are stuck in.

Awesome. Good for you. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully my background check follows yours soon since my fingerprints mailed out on the 21st as well. Now you wait for your LPP! Could be a matter of just a week before you see it complete

 

[USProgrammer]

hi may i know what does it mean by FPR cohort?

Google's AI response for "define:cohort" says "A cohort is a group of people who share a common trait or experience."

I used it to mean those of us who submitted fingerprints to RCMP between Feb 7 (at the latest) and Feb 21 (at the latest) who did not have their responses mailed out by RCMP to IRCC until or around Feb 21, due to an issue in the RCMP mailroom.

 

[USProgrammer]

Awesome. Good for you. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully my background check follows yours soon since my fingerprints mailed out on the 21st as well. Now you wait for your LPP! Could be a matter of just a week before you see it complete

I hope you're right, but my wife @WifeOfUSProgrammer has had her background complete for a long time and has had her test done for nearly 2 weeks now (no FPR) and has had no movement in LPP yet. Same VO (Vancouver).

Edit: To be clear: separate applications.

 

[flores]

Google's AI response for "define:cohort" says "A cohort is a group of people who share a common trait or experience."

I used it to mean those of us who submitted fingerprints to RCMP between Feb 7 (at the latest) and Feb 21 (at the latest) who did not have their responses mailed out by RCMP to IRCC until or around Feb 21, due to an issue in the RCMP mailroom.

Oh thank you for explaining. I am one of those who submitted FP on Feb 21st and no update since then. hoping that after this week there is progress in our application.

 

[USProgrammer]

Oh thank you for explaining. I am one of those who submitted FP on Feb 21st and no update since then. hoping that after this week there is progress in our application.

If you submitted on Feb 21, I wouldn't expect yours to be delayed in any way. They solved the mailroom issue during the days preceding Feb 21 and said all responses would be mailed out by Feb 21 at the latest.

You should be in a normal processing timeline and will see Background complete in a week or less, probably (especially if you're at the Vancouver office). That is, if your Security is already complete. You can find this out by calling IRCC and asking specifically about Security and Criminality separately.

If you call today, it's possible they can see Criminality complete before the tracker updates. My tracker says it was marked complete Feb 28 but only showed up today in the tracker.

Might be worth calling IRCC using my instructions.

I created a contact in my iPhone called IRCC with this contact number:

(888) 242-2100,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,,[YOUR_UCI_HERE]#,,1,,1,,1,,4,,1,,1

This will get you directly to the citizenship inquiry line. Replace [YOUR_UCI_HERE] with your UCI, numbers only.

 

[flores]

If you submitted on Feb 21, I wouldn't expect yours to be delayed in any way. They solved the mailroom issue during the days preceding Feb 21 and said all responses would be mailed out by Feb 21 at the latest.

You should be in a normal processing timeline and will see Background complete in a week or less, probably (especially if you're at the Vancouver office). That is, if your Security is already complete. You can find this out by calling IRCC and asking specifically about Security and Criminality separately.

If you call today, it's possible they can see Criminality complete before the tracker updates. My tracker says it was marked complete Feb 28 but only showed up today in the tracker.

what will be the usual timeline after submitting the FP to IRCC?

Might be worth calling IRCC using my instructions.

 

[USProgrammer]

@flores you replied to me with no content other than quoting me. I'm not sure what your reply was intended to say.

 

[flores]

oh sorry for that, my question is if its regular timeline how many days after submitting FP should be mark completed the BG? and thank you for the advise.

 

[USProgrammer]

oh sorry for that, my question is if its regular timeline how many days after submitting FP should be mark completed the BG? and thank you for the advise.

It's not really between submitting and marking completed. It's between when RCMP mails it out and when IRCC receives it and where your VO is.

RCMP is mailing it from Ottawa and my VO is Vancouver, so it seems to take about a week.

You can call RCMP with your DCN and ask when it was mailed out. Your FPR letter will indicate where your receiving VO is (where they are mailing the prints).

If you're Vancouver too, expect about a week after mailing. Call RCMP to determine when they mailed it.

 

[Jorela]

Type: Online application
Location: Toronto
Physical Presence Days: 1105
Application: Family (parent + child)
Application sent: Nov 1st, 2024
Delivered: Nov 1st, 2024
AOR: Nov 13th, 2024
BG: Jan 11, 2025
Test window: Jan 24 - Feb 22, 2025
Test taken: Feb 10, 2025 (passed 18/20)
Test updated on tracker: Feb 15, 2025
LPP: Feb 26, 2025
Oath Ceremony: Scheduled for Mar 17, 2025
Type: Virtual

 

[flores]

i called IRCC and i was told that they have not received yet our FP, so he suggested to email the paper that the agency gave to us to vancouver so they are aware that we did our FP last Feb 21.

how about the feb 14th applications did you get any update after you submitted your FP?

 

[USProgrammer]

i called IRCC and i was told that they have not received yet our FP, so he suggested to email the paper that the agency gave to us to vancouver so they are aware that we did our FP last Feb 21.

how about the feb 14th applications did you get any update after you submitted your FP?

Did you call RCMP to ask when they mailed it? And what is your visa office that it's going to on the FPR letter?

 

[flores]

Did you call RCMP to ask when they mailed it? And what is your visa office that it's going to on the FPR letter?

NO, but I will give a call now, i thought, its just the IRCC.
is the number correct for vancouver RCMP?604-224-1322?

 

[USProgrammer]

NO, but I will give a call now, i thought, its just the IRCC.
is the number correct for vancouver RCMP?604-224-1322?

No that is not correct. Always use the official number on this page.