October 2025 - Citizenship Applications

[qshao17]

Anyone waiting for oath in Kitchener/Waterloo region ( Kitchener event office), LPP completed mid-Feb?

kitchener looks like very slow

 

[AD_CAN]

AOR: 15th Jan
BG: 19th Jan
No test invitation yet

Test done: 22nd Feb
LPP: 5th March
waiting for Oath, Location: NB

 

[duke_hp]

Update

LPP- Completed, Tracker shows March 11th 2026, Updated in Tracker on 13th March 2026,
Citizenship Ceremony - Started, Date 13th March 2026, Updated in Tracker on 17th March 2026,
Oath Ceremony scheduled for 31st March 2026, Waiting for invitation email.

Update

Oath Ceremony Invitation Email Received - 19th March, 2026
Oath Ceremony is Virtual on 31st March 2026 , my location is Mississauga, Ontario

 

[silcitapp]

Thanks for your reply! Where is your oath office? London or Kitchener?

Haven't got the email yet.

 

[sodapop123]

Update: Oath scheduled for April 8th !
Good luck to everyone else waiting for updates, hopefully y'all get the Oath date scheduled soon as well




My Timeline :

Application submitted: October 27th, 2025
AOR Received: January 22nd, 2026
Tracker Email: January 23rd, 2026
Tracker Created: January 24th, 2026
Background Completed : February 2nd, 2026
Test Email Invitation: March 2nd, 2026
Test Taken: March 6th, 2026
Test Completed: March 8th, 2026
LPP Completed: March 16th, 2026
Citizenship Ceremony: 'In Progress' on March 18th, 2026 ; Scheduled for April 8th, 2026 (Waiting on email Invite)

** All Tracker Updates were 2 days after the fact **

 

[AD_CAN]

Update: Oath scheduled for April 8th !
Good luck to everyone else waiting for updates, hopefully y'all get the Oath date scheduled soon as well




My Timeline :

Application submitted: October 27th, 2025
AOR Received: January 22nd, 2026
Tracker Email: January 23rd, 2026
Tracker Created: January 24th, 2026
Background Completed : February 2nd, 2026
Test Email Invitation: March 2nd, 2026
Test Taken: March 6th, 2026
Test Completed: March 8th, 2026
LPP Completed: March 16th, 2026
Citizenship Ceremony: 'In Progress' on March 18th, 2026 ; Scheduled for April 8th, 2026 (Waiting on email Invite)

** All Tracker Updates were 2 days after the fact **

congrats, location?

 

[sodapop123]

congrats, location?

Toronto

 

[monking]

Anyone waiting for oath in Kitchener/Waterloo region ( Kitchener event office), LPP completed mid-Feb?

Looks like we are in the same boat. LPP completed February 23, still no oath application. People who are completing LPP in March are already getting oath invitations. Could be the frequency of oath ceremony in Kitchener or something

 

[qshao17]

Looks like we are in the same boat. LPP completed February 23, still no oath application. People who are completing LPP in March are already getting oath invitations. Could be the frequency of oath ceremony in Kitchener or something

I think so, can we create a whatsapp group for the people who are waiting for the kitchener oath ceremony?

 

[sodapop123]

Looks like we are in the same boat. LPP completed February 23, still no oath application. People who are completing LPP in March are already getting oath invitations. Could be the frequency of oath ceremony in Kitchener or something

Could be that. Could possibly even venue capacity being smaller = less invitees per ceremony. Also, they could just be waiting for enough people in that area to get to the stage you're at, to fill up a decent number of seats for the next one, before sending invites.

As scheduled today, I just counted 16 ceremony time slots between 23rd and end of March in the GTA area. In comparison, the count for Kitchener for those dates is 3 and Cambridge has 1. London has 4, Ottawa has 7, Niagara has 1.

I don't know why this would impact virtual ceremonies at all though - but who knows anything for sure/why.

On the bright side, at least all the critical parts (i.e. BG processing + LPP checks) are done.
Good luck, fingers crossed for the earliest possible updates for y'all !

 

[al05]

I don't know why this would impact virtual ceremonies at all though - but who knows anything for sure/why.

I doubt that virtual ceremonies are impacted by cities or towns, only offline ceremonies should be.

 

[p_k]

Application Date: 13th October 2025
AOR: 8th January 2026
Tracker account linked: 10th January 2026
Background verification complete: 12th January 2026
Test invite: 19th January 2026
Citizenship test: Completed on 23rd January 2026; Updated on tracker: 27th January 2026
LPP: 3rd March 2026; Updated on tracker: 5th March 2026
Citizenship ceremony: Scheduled on 1st April

Got the ceremony email today. In person in Scarborough.

 

[qshao17]

Got the ceremony email today. In person in Scarborough.

Congrats!

 

[WONDER999]

Looks like we are in the same boat. LPP completed February 23, still no oath application. People who are completing LPP in March are already getting oath invitations. Could be the frequency of oath ceremony in let's update eachother!

 

[WONDER999]

I doubt that virtual ceremonies are impacted by cities or towns, only offline ceremonies should be.

Let's update eachother here! Thanks