Eileenf,
CORRECTION/UPDATE TO ABOVE QUESTION:
The latest Sep 2012 RQ form has this wording in the opening para: Unless otherwise noted, the documents you must provide should cover the 4 year period immediately before having submitted your application for grant of citizenship, specifically, from YYYYMMDD to YYYYMMDD.
Now referring back to my earlier question, is it that the person issuing RQ will use discretion to fill the YYYYMMDD fields to EITHER:
(1) ask for the full 7 years looking back - which includes time they were overseas AFTER their first time landing in July 2007;
OR
(2) They ask only for last years preceding the date cit application was signed.
So, the officer makes a judgement and decides how he/she will fill the YYYYMMDD fields (actually only the first one is important since the second would be the date application was signed).
Is this an accurate reading of how they would go about it. SO, then based on the YYYYMMDD range , the applicant is either lucky to get just the last 4 years or going back EVEN FURTHER to first time they landed ?
But, the application keeps saying since your arrival in Canada , so lets say the officer indicates only last four years in YYYYMMDD fields, do we then go by what they ask for OR do we still supersede and have the burden of going all the way back to July 2007 ?