Hi there, hope everyone is well. Has anyone tried applying for citizenship urgently as a refugee because they don’t have their home passport and need to travel urgently. Did they accept it?
Refugee applying for urgent citizenship
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I cant travel to my home country with that (I need to go to my home country)
There is nothing as applying for urgent canadian citizenship urgently. You have to fulfill the residency obligations and meet all other citizenship requirements.
Bear in mind that as a conventional refugee, you can not travel back to your country or renew your country passport.
Your other option is to apply for a Refugee Travel Document RTD
Do you know that if you are under danger in your home country (why you were accepted as a refugee), having a Canadian passport will not protect you from those danger?
You can do a lot of things virtually. Maybe look for those option to do things online instead.
There is in fact a process for requesting Canadian citizenship urgently. You still have to meet the residency obligation (which the OP does). But there's absolutely a way to request ugent processing. Up to IRCC if they accept your request for urgent processing. But the process exists.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/apply/urgently.html
Ding ding ding !!
Kids this is why sometimes when people
Return home they get pulled by the CBSA to have a chat with immigration .
Something tells me the optics on this possibly won’t look good
Just a feeling
I havent visited my home country for 11 years just for everyone’s information!! But unfortunately serious illness in my family is causing me to need to go visit back home.
I can understand your situation but the thing is that the country which wasn't able to protect you wasn't able to protect your rights so how you can even think to return there I can understand the emergency situation of a family member but what about that if you went there and get killed? this is not 90's you can do many things using video conference don't risk your life and status as it is all precious..
There's no such thing as "urgent citizenship" however you can apply for an emergency passport, which enables you to single travel, however traveling back to your home country is absolutely NOT advisable, where most probably you were at risk and applied for protection in Canada. You may even end up losing your refugee claim and thus the PR status.
There is such a thing as "urgent citizenship". You can request urgent processing once you qualify for citizenship: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/apply/urgently.html