Hello experts,
Please help me here
I skipped 3 oath ceremony requests due to covid travel ban, and childbirth in India. I communicated CIC with proper explanations with proofs and they accepted to postpone 3 times.
Now I received the FINAL oath ceremony request. I am in a situation where my spouse and child's sponsorship applications are in process and have almost at end of the process. We just waiting for the passport request process.
I heard if I complete the citizenship process now, my son cannot enter the country as PR so the sponsorship application is invalid, and must apply for a citizenship certificate for him.
Can anyone here please help here with the process that I need to follow? Thanks a lot
I am not an expert but based on what I know from past, these rules could have changed!
your son will have to come to Canada as PR. Citizenship will be granted later on if he stays in Canada as PR.
citizenship at birth is granted by birth in county or if your parents are citizens at time of birth. Since your child is born before you became the citizen, he’ll need to go through PR->Citizen route.
the challenge is however once you take the oath, you’ll not be able to leave the country since they ask you to cut your PR card on screen. You need to wait in Canada to get the citizenship certificate, then apply for Canadian passport and India visa before going back. So till your husband and son can travel to Canada or you go back, you’ll be separate.
The way out is if you need to need to go back, come to canada for oath and go back. You’ll need an address where someone can receive you citizenship cert and send to India in a secure tracked post and then you go to Canada embassy in india and apply for Canadian passport.
hope that helps and is still relevant