Will the citizenship processing timeline go down ?

[turboracer]

Brothers or Sisters :

Now the citizenship processing time is 25 months

by 2015 do you think it will go down ?

they said something about the budget ..

What is everyone's guess ?

What is everyone's opinion about it ...

 

[links18]

It depends on what you mean by citizenship processing times. Straight forward application with no red flags? Perhaps. Stuck with an RQ? Not bloody likely.....

 

[keesio]

The 25 months average includes people who got hit with an RQ and other complication. If you have a straightforward case as links18 mentioned, it can be much sooner. It also seems variable, depending on the CIC office that is handing your application. Many of the faster offices seem to average around a year (or less) for a straightforwards case.

 

[Yelsew]

If they go ahead with the rumoured plan of requiring 4 years PR at the time of application (instead of 3 years), that will give them breathing room to deal with the backlog in the system. And so then CIC can boast that they have reduced the long processing time from 25 months to perhaps 12 months (if you're lucky enough not to get a RQ, of course). But with the increased residency requirement, the net result is the same: current 3 + 2 = 5 years; future 4 + 1 = 5 years from the time you apply until the time you actually get your Canadian citizenship. :

 

[Yelsew]

The 25 months average includes people who got hit with an RQ and other complication. If you have a straightforward case as links18 mentioned, it can be much sooner. It also seems variable, depending on the CIC office that is handing your application. Many of the faster offices seem to average around a year (or less) for a straightforwards case.

Keesio, actually the 25 month is the stated average for 'routine' applications. For 'non-routine' cases (which includes those who received the RQ), the processing time is 35 months. But you're right, they often process them faster--my partner's application took only 12 months from start to finish.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/cit-processing.asp

I was at a conference for the Canadian Council for Refugees a few weeks ago, and there were some representatives from CIC answering questions about citizenship. They refused to comment on the rumours of increasing the residency requirement, but they did acknowledge that the RQ has been a source of great frustration to applicants, and they are looking at measures to address this problem, without saying exactly what those measures will be.

 

[Dejaavu]

It seems it is down in some areas.
My neighbors applied for citizenship April 2013 and they got citizenship in December 2013. So total time 8 months.
They live in Toronto west.

 

[Msafiri]

If you apply with your Local Office in the GTA area then chances of getting to the oath within 12 months are extremely high. If your Local Office is anywhere else then 15-25 months is more the norm. If you get a Pre-Test RQ add another 6 months to the timeline. With At-Test and Post-Test RQs all bets are off. It behooves those wanting a speedy process to consider relocating to the GTA.