Hi man,
Thanks for the reply. In regards to Urgent Processing,
(1) nowhere does it say your job has to be in Canada. Does it?
(2) if it required the job to be exclusively in Canada, this option would be virtually non-applicable (except maybe for high profile people). I lived in Ottawa juggling contracts with the government and I never saw job offers requesting you to be a citizen (this is not an issue unless you decide to run for office as PM or something of that nature). This is the nature of being PR: you are practically a citizen except only for two things, the RO and unelectability as politician.
(3) my job is in an organization constituted of multiple countries INCLUDING Canada, so much so that the building where I work is international territory (the local police is not allowed inside under no circumstance).
You think I don't have a claim whatsoever for Urgent Processing? Even if they deny... Honestly, I am not sure.
@PMM already, mostly, covered this.
There is rarely any harm in making the request for urgent processing. IRCC has broad discretion to expedite processing. And particularly for someone with an application that has already been in process for a rather long time, there is some chance that IRCC will expedite processing.
But even apart from the current situation, as best we know, the prospect of IRCC granting urgent processing in your situation seems very unlikely.
LONGER EXPLANATION:
Expedited processing of citizenship applications is discretionary, and in the best of times there is no guarantee those who meet the criteria will have their request for urgent processing granted. We see many who are not.
Basically the publicized criteria for which IRCC says it may grant expedited processing is merely descriptive of situations in which IRCC will
*consider
* expediting processing. There is, for example, no right to urgent processing. Declining to expedite processing is NOT a decision subject to appeal or judicial review.
Currently, given the impact of the covid-19 pandemic, there appears to be almost
NO prospect for urgent processing anytime soon. With, perhaps, rare exceptions in very special cases. There was, for example, a virtual oath ceremony somewhat recently, but so far there is NO news of such special proceedings other than in that SINGLE individual's case, involving a high level professional in a very specialized field, for a position HERE, IN Canada.
You are correct that there are indeed, relatively, few jobs which require Canadian citizenship. But there are a number that do. As
@canuck78 observed.
Other than isolated and, frankly, NOT reliable exceptions, anecdotal reports almost universally indicate that for GRANT citizenship applications requests for urgent processing are ONLY granted when the job affected is a job which actually requires Canadian citizenship itself, which again are mostly in the fields referenced by
@canuck78.
Obviously you have the job you have without having Canadian citizenship, so clearly Canadian citizenship is not a job requirement.
You are also correct that IRCC's online information about the availability of urgent processing does not precisely stipulate what it means, and one could interpret it the way you do, that it does not exclude the situation in which Canadian citizenship has an incidental relationship to the job. There is little or no reliable support, however, for the proposition that the latter is how IRCC interprets or applies its discretion to expedite processing in individual cases.
On the contrary . . . There are few if any indications that incidental reasons which can affect employment will be sufficient for IRCC to expedite processing the GRANT citizenship application. (Urgent processing for proof of citizenship applications may be allowed more generously.) The most common example of queries similar to yours is the PR who has a job opportunity which depends on having a Canadian passport, be that to facilitate international travel or to qualify for a particular type of visa in certain countries (many of these queries relate to qualifying for U.S. work visas or U.S. jobs), and again
NO, there is little or no indication that IRCC will grant urgent processing for this. Needing a Canadian passport is NOT the same as Canadian citizenship being a legitimate job requirement.
There have been forum participants, at least one or two anyway, who insist otherwise. Such claims tend to be rife with inconsistencies, unreliable on their face, or are largely unsupported conclusions based on isolated instances (a failing common to many forum posts in general, the tendency to extrapolate a rule or policy based on what happened in individual cases -- isolated examples and potential exceptions do not illuminate what the rule or policy is).