Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship
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Where did you travel to that time?
But did you actually travel to your home country this time (this was a separate time than above, right? Using what document? Who cancelled your citizenship application? How did you find out about this?
You should speak to a lawyer. While you can still 'do' all of the above, hard to say what risks there are. There's a lot going on here and the details matter.
If keeping PR status in Canada is important to you . . .
I agree with both @armoured and @abff08f4813c but the main thing, as @abff08f4813c put it right up front, is you definitely need to talk to an immigration lawyer.
As @armoured noted, from what's happened to what's happening, what your options are and what the risks are, there are several details that matter. The particular reason why your citizenship application was "cancelled," for example, probably says a lot about the situation. And, whether you actually traveled to your home country is really important, hugely important. BUT the main thing is it looks like this is well past the stage where a forum like this can offer much that will help you make decisions or even illuminate what your situation is . . . you need to talk to a lawyer, a lawyer you pay (or perhaps is available through some organization assisting refugees or such) to go over your situation in detail.
You posted previously and got a lot of replies previously. You need to talk to a lawyer before you do anything else. That is your next step, as we advised your previously.
New cessation related case: https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/do...64e&searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAJY2Vzc2F0aW9uAAAAAAE
That's right. In some cases cessation is triggered without submitting a citizenship application.
The other notable thing here is that he seems to be from mainland China, where dual citizenship wouldn't be recognized and where he should automatically lose his status as a citizen once he comes a Canadian citizen.
In other circumstances - someone who comes as a skilled worker via express entry for example - this choice would make more sense. It's quite understandable not wanting to give up that status and wanting to have the surety of always being able to visit your hometown and family members left behind. In a way, it's a sign of not wanting to give up ties to the old while establishing new ones elsewhere.
But specifically for refugee/asylum cases it makes somewhat less sense to me.. I'd have thought that such individuals would actually prefer to change their citizenship - and have the protecting power of Canada on their side if they ever somehow ended back up in their home country.
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I agree with you however either way I think OP would have ended up with cessation. They renewed their passport and started traveling very soon after getting PR.
I respectively disagree, assuming OP is Zhou from the latest CanLII on this thread.
Had Zhou never travelled out of Canada and timely applied for Canadian citizenship, I believe that Zhou would have already become a Canadian citizen by the time the updated rule was adopted on Dec 2012.
From May 2005 (when PR was received), eligibility for citizenship would happened on May 2008. Even assuming a rather slow three and a half years to get the grant from time of application (oath taken and all that), then by Jan 2012 the citizenship should have been in hand. I think already being a Canadian citizen by then would have protected Zhou from cessation.
