Hi all, an update. I'm an applicant from outside Canada, who just had their interview completed on the 10th of January. The officer informed me that I had passed and would be scheduled for the next available oath. I asked if there is the chance of an in person oath and he said that there is, but that they are prioritising online oaths currently. If you want an in person oath you can request one and they will put it in a pile until there are enough requests for an in person oath to complete one in your local area. He estimated an in person oath would take longer to schedule than an online one.
As I have been outside Canada for more than a year I did need to get a police check completed and sent to them. Thankfully this process is fast in my country, and online, so this has been sent to IRCC today (11th of January). The officer told me all of my application is now completed and I will be scheduled for the next available oath ceremony.
Application type: Online
Location: Vancouver
Physical presence: +1100
Application: Single
Applications sent: Jan 7th 2022
Application received: Feb 28th
Citizenship test invite: Sept 20th
FP request: Sept 22nd (sent Sept 27th from outside Canada)
Test completed: Sept 27th (outside Canada).
FP Received: October 27th
Background Check Completed: October 27th
Passport request: 3rd November.
Sent passport scans: 3rd November.
Interview request: 10th of December for an online interview on the 10th of Jan 2023.
Interview completed: 10th of January (from outside Canada)
All completed (told by officer, not yet appeared on tracker): 10th January 2023
Request for foreign police check: Completed and emailed 11th January 2023.
Oath: Not yet started.
For what it's worth, I've seen a lot of paranoid conspiracy in this forum from people who do not know and who are extrapolating their own anxieties and experience with what they perceive as delays to everyone else. I was told that as I was abroad the application would be held in suspension until I returned to Canada, for example, although this is clearly not the case. Each application takes a different amount of time, not due to some conspiracy or incompetence, but simply due to the amount of applications and the complicated information that the officers need to go through. This is comparable to other countries (it took 2 years for me to get my Irish citizenship!) so everyone really just needs to relax a bit. I get it's stressful, but you're in a privileged position to even be able to apply for citizenship in a country different to that of your birth, take a step back!
As I have been outside Canada for more than a year I did need to get a police check completed and sent to them. Thankfully this process is fast in my country, and online, so this has been sent to IRCC today (11th of January). The officer told me all of my application is now completed and I will be scheduled for the next available oath ceremony.
Application type: Online
Location: Vancouver
Physical presence: +1100
Application: Single
Applications sent: Jan 7th 2022
Application received: Feb 28th
Citizenship test invite: Sept 20th
FP request: Sept 22nd (sent Sept 27th from outside Canada)
Test completed: Sept 27th (outside Canada).
FP Received: October 27th
Background Check Completed: October 27th
Passport request: 3rd November.
Sent passport scans: 3rd November.
Interview request: 10th of December for an online interview on the 10th of Jan 2023.
Interview completed: 10th of January (from outside Canada)
All completed (told by officer, not yet appeared on tracker): 10th January 2023
Request for foreign police check: Completed and emailed 11th January 2023.
Oath: Not yet started.
For what it's worth, I've seen a lot of paranoid conspiracy in this forum from people who do not know and who are extrapolating their own anxieties and experience with what they perceive as delays to everyone else. I was told that as I was abroad the application would be held in suspension until I returned to Canada, for example, although this is clearly not the case. Each application takes a different amount of time, not due to some conspiracy or incompetence, but simply due to the amount of applications and the complicated information that the officers need to go through. This is comparable to other countries (it took 2 years for me to get my Irish citizenship!) so everyone really just needs to relax a bit. I get it's stressful, but you're in a privileged position to even be able to apply for citizenship in a country different to that of your birth, take a step back!
