Returning to Dubai after applying for citizenship

[George1978]

I wish to know an information.
I completed my 3 years out of 4 years requirement for citizenship.
I wish to apply for Citizenship.After applying for Citizenship I would like to go back to Dubai and work there because here I am not able to find a decent job.

If I do that will the CIC send all my correspondence regarding citizenship to my Dubai address?

Processing time for Citizenship is 2-3 years and if they wont do that then I will be forced to stay here and do a labor job for 3 more years.

I don't have any relatives or close friends here to forward my mails.Any suggestions? Experience?

 

[CanV]

I wish to know an information.
I completed my 3 years out of 4 years requirement for citizenship.
I wish to apply for Citizenship.After applying for Citizenship I would like to go back to Dubai and work there because here I am not able to find a decent job.

If I do that will the CIC send all my correspondence regarding citizenship to my Dubai address?

Processing time for Citizenship is 2-3 years and if they wont do that then I will be forced to stay here and do a labor job for 3 more years.

I don't have any relatives or close friends here to forward my mails.Any suggestions? Experience?

CIC definitely does not send citizenship correspondence outside Canada. In fact if you put down a foreign address you will automatically get an RQ. Most citizenship applications do not take 2-3 years. Routine applications are taking 6-8 months nowadays, non-routine around a year.

 

[shahmad]

I wish to know an information.
I completed my 3 years out of 4 years requirement for citizenship.
I wish to apply for Citizenship.After applying for Citizenship I would like to go back to Dubai and work there because here I am not able to find a decent job.

If I do that will the CIC send all my correspondence regarding citizenship to my Dubai address?

Processing time for Citizenship is 2-3 years and if they wont do that then I will be forced to stay here and do a labor job for 3 more years.

I don't have any relatives or close friends here to forward my mails.Any suggestions? Experience?

For years people have been coming to Canada only for the passport and the moment they get it they leave the country ..... Those were old times .... now CIC has realized this and to stop this practice they passed a bill called "BILL C24". It has already been passed in July 2014 and going to be effective from July 2015......If you dont know about BILL C24 I recommend google it read it and discuss it with a lawyer before leaving Canada ...... One of the clause in the Bill clearly states that, if CIC concludes that you only came to Canada for the Passport and have no intention to live here then they can even revoke your Citizenship ...... there are many such clauses like that ....... If you really want to leave then discuss the pros and cons with the lawyer first before taking any step further ..... my two cents!!

 

[Leon]

If you apply now, you are not applying under bill 24 and therefore you are not bound by the intent to continue to live in Canada in the future.

However, what CanV said is correct. Leaving Canada after applying is a big red flag to immigration and causes them to believe that you may have lied about days spent in Canada and causes you to get an RQ, having to send additional proof, attend an interview and a long delay in your application.

 

[era1521]

I wish to know an information.
I completed my 3 years out of 4 years requirement for citizenship.
I wish to apply for Citizenship.After applying for Citizenship I would like to go back to Dubai and work there because here I am not able to find a decent job.

If I do that will the CIC send all my correspondence regarding citizenship to my Dubai address?

Processing time for Citizenship is 2-3 years and if they wont do that then I will be forced to stay here and do a labor job for 3 more years.

I don't have any relatives or close friends here to forward my mails.Any suggestions? Experience?

Why would you want Canadian Citizenship if you cant have a decent job/life here? Why would you immigrate in the first place.

 

[George1978]

I went 8 years to college in my country.Worked few years in my country as computer programmer and 2 years in Dubai as computer programmer.I migrated to Canada thinking I will get a good IT job here.My parents are old (now 70).They need someone there for support now.I thought if I get a good job here later I could sponsor my parents to Canada.Things didn't work out like I expected. With my labor job pay I cannot sponsor them.My parents are getting older and sick.My dad is getting blind.They need somebody to take care of them.My only option is to return.But after working in Canada as a labor for 3 years I wont be able to get a computer programmer job in my country now.I will be treated outdated in my field.


My plan was to do a good IT course and find a job in my country and take care of my parents during their last years and later return to Canada.I felt the course and experience will help me find a good IT job here later.Continuing like this is not good.I need citizenship for that.Other wise I have to live here and there for completing the PR requirements.It will be difficult.

 

[era1521]

I went 8 years to college in my country.Worked few years in my country as computer programmer and 2 years in Dubai as computer programmer.I migrated to Canada thinking I will get a good IT job here.My parents are old (now 70).They need someone there for support now.I thought if I get a good job here later I could sponsor my parents to Canada.Things didn't work out like I expected. With my labor job pay I cannot sponsor them.My parents are getting older and sick.My dad is getting blind.They need somebody to take care of them.My only option is to return.But after working in Canada as a labor for 3 years I wont be able to get a computer programmer job in my country now.I will be treated outdated in my field.


My plan was to do a good IT course and find a job in my country and take care of my parents during their last years and later return to Canada.I felt the course and experience will help me find a good IT job here later.Continuing like this is not good.I need citizenship for that.Other wise I have to live here and there for completing the PR requirements.It will be difficult.

Sorry to hear about your story, but its a story too often happening to immigrants. My father died in my home country and I only arrived there the morning after he passed. My mom is living alone at her 81 yrs of age.

Now getting back to initial topic, returning to Dubai after applying; the whole citizenship process is aiming to catch and extract cases like you plan to fall in. They call it passport of convenience. Nobody will listen to your crying out that you'll be coming back in few years, just give you a break now. Thats crap. They want people living here and integrating here; spending all money here, volunteering here, paying taxes here.

You really want to put in your application a dubai address for mailing address?

 

[MUFC]

Sometimes I am really sorry to hear what heavy price the newcomers have to pay here... not only financial but moral too.

 

[emamabd]

Now getting back to initial topic, returning to Dubai after applying; the whole citizenship process is aiming to catch and extract cases like you plan to fall in. They call it passport of convenience. Nobody will listen to your crying out that you'll be coming back in few years, just give you a break now. Thats crap. They want people living here and integrating here; spending all money here, volunteering here, paying taxes here.

i think you might be taking it to the far extreme...the intent of bill c-24 is not to "lock" people in canada forever, canada is a "free" country and its citizens remain "free".

 

[MUFC]

i think you might be taking it to the far extreme...the intent of bill c-24 is not to "lock" people in canada, canada is a "free" country and its citizens remain "free".

The problem is that when the people go back or travel often with more stamps in the passport... the possibility for the application to be in trouble is getting high.

 

[era1521]

i think you might be taking it to the far extreme...the intent of bill c-24 is not to "lock" people in canada forever, canada is a "free" country and its citizens remain "free".

Of course the law is not intended to force citizens living here. The intend is to have them living here prior and during applying for citizenship.
Do you get the catch here?

 

[emamabd]

The problem is that when the people go back or travel often with more stamps in the passport... the possibility for the application to be in trouble is getting high.

thats understood, it could lead to an RQ and better avoid it.

But i've seen some posts earlier - somebody mentioned that the citizenship can be revoked for "working in dubai"...and to me it doesn't make sense. That alone could not be grounds for revoking citizenship, and it doesn't serve as a "proof" that the applicant lied about his intent to live in canada. We live in a dynamic world and situations change by the minute, a canadian citizen can work abroad for 1 year or 10 years and come back whenever he wishes ..its no big deal (whether he became a citizen before bill c24 or after)

 

[MUFC]

Intend to reside is like era1521 mentioned... it is only until the oath... after that the new citizen can do whatever he wants... which is most probably leaving this country, like many others.

 

[mimi23]

If u can't find job in the province u live or city why not moving to another place?in Alberta we don't have the Agency crap ,so stupid how people complain of jobs yet they stuck in eastern provinces Canada is too big to be stuck in one place

Yes you are right.They need us stay here do labor job and pay tax.

Here labor job is through agency.They take 1/3 of our pay.Then they deduct tax, ei, cpp. What I get is like $9/hour.

Its a big worry if your parents are old and you are on the other side of the world.It will take minimum 30 hours for me to reach home in case of emergency .

I think I should not give Dubai address.I will give a distant relative address in Toronto.So that I wont be under red flag.

I will try maximum to stay in Canada while processing my citizenship application.

 

[thecoolguysam]

I went 8 years to college in my country.Worked few years in my country as computer programmer and 2 years in Dubai as computer programmer.I migrated to Canada thinking I will get a good IT job here.My parents are old (now 70).They need someone there for support now.I thought if I get a good job here later I could sponsor my parents to Canada.Things didn't work out like I expected. With my labor job pay I cannot sponsor them.My parents are getting older and sick.My dad is getting blind.They need somebody to take care of them.My only option is to return.But after working in Canada as a labor for 3 years I wont be able to get a computer programmer job in my country now.I will be treated outdated in my field.


My plan was to do a good IT course and find a job in my country and take care of my parents during their last years and later return to Canada.I felt the course and experience will help me find a good IT job here later.Continuing like this is not good.I need citizenship for that.Other wise I have to live here and there for completing the PR requirements.It will be difficult.

It is a very emotional situation.
I know life without parents is impossible and the parents need us during their old age. Parents are always highest and biggest priority.
My friend, its a big sacrifice and you are one of the luckiest person on this earth who will have the blessings of god to take care of your parents during their old age. There is nothing more than taking care of the elderly parents. Not every one on this earth is lucky to take care of his/her parents and moreover not everyone gets opportunity to serve the elderly parents.

I wish you good luck for your citizenship application and hopefully you will get your citizenship soon. Once you get your citizenship, you can freely go and take care of your parents. Its just the matter of time.