June 2024 - Citizenship Applications

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@vinay16 @maverick1982 @Oscarsunil

Past biometrics given to IRCC for PR, WP, study permit, or at border, or in USA has no relevance for the citizenship application.

They run your personal information like name, DOB etc., against the RCMP database for criminality checks. If they find a partial match, they issue a FP request to make sure you are not the person found in the database. So not everyone gets an FP request, around 20-25% of folks get it. Sometimes they also issue it for quality integrity check of the process. As long as you haven't given fingerprints to RCMP for the specific purpose of citizenship in the past 1 year, you can expect to get a fingerprints request irrespective of past biometrics.

If the BG check is completed, then there would not be a fingerprints request as the criminality checks are already completed (unless in very rare cases when the application is pending for more than a year, then criminality checks are done again and might get a fingerprints request)

 

[tubelip]

How common is it for citizenship applications to receive Residence Questionnaire (RQ)?
Wanted to get an idea of how common it is. Does it happen all the time or on pretty isolated cases?

 

[azade.84]

Updated. I put test window as Aug 30 - sep 28. Since you didn't mention the end date I put it as sep 28. Correct it if wrong

that's correct. thank you!

 

[YVR123]

How common is it for citizenship applications to receive Residence Questionnaire (RQ)?
Wanted to get an idea of how common it is. Does it happen all the time or on pretty isolated cases?

These are the few posts I found related to RQ posted after 2020. Not many get RO.

RQ or RQ-lite Before Interview/Citizenship Test | Canada Immigration Forum (canadavisa.com)
Question regarding RQ | Canada Immigration Forum (canadavisa.com)
Likelihood of RQ | Canada Immigration Forum (canadavisa.com)

 

[vinay16]

@vinay16 @maverick1982 @Oscarsunil

Past biometrics given to IRCC for PR, WP, study permit, or at border, or in USA has no relevance for the citizenship application.

They run your personal information like name, DOB etc., against the RCMP database for criminality checks. If they find a partial match, they issue a FP request to make sure you are not the person found in the database. So not everyone gets an FP request, around 20-25% of folks get it. Sometimes they also issue it for quality integrity check of the process. As long as you haven't given fingerprints to RCMP for the specific purpose of citizenship in the past 1 year, you can expect to get a fingerprints request irrespective of past biometrics.

If the BG check is completed, then there would not be a fingerprints request as the criminality checks are already completed (unless in very rare cases when the application is pending for more than a year, then criminality checks are done again and might get a fingerprints request)

Thank you so much for detailed explanation

 

[ma5590]

I applied on June 25th on July 3rd I received AOR but no update after that should I follow up or should I wait?

same here. applied on June 29th with AOR on July 9th. No update since then, last update on the tracker is July 11th. Wonder what is happening with our applications?

 

[maverick1982]

@vinay16 @maverick1982 @Oscarsunil

Past biometrics given to IRCC for PR, WP, study permit, or at border, or in USA has no relevance for the citizenship application.

They run your personal information like name, DOB etc., against the RCMP database for criminality checks. If they find a partial match, they issue a FP request to make sure you are not the person found in the database. So not everyone gets an FP request, around 20-25% of folks get it. Sometimes they also issue it for quality integrity check of the process. As long as you haven't given fingerprints to RCMP for the specific purpose of citizenship in the past 1 year, you can expect to get a fingerprints request irrespective of past biometrics.

If the BG check is completed, then there would not be a fingerprints request as the criminality checks are already completed (unless in very rare cases when the application is pending for more than a year, then criminality checks are done again and might get a fingerprints request)

Thanks for the crystal clear explanation

 

[Faisalkhan555]

I applied on June 25th on July 3rd I received AOR but no update after that should I follow up or should I wait?

My AOR is June 14th test was updated to completed on Aug 13th, since then there's no progress at all and everything else is in progress. Calgary office

 

[CherDTing]

My AOR is June 14th test was updated to completed on Aug 13th, since then there's no progress at all and everything else is in progress. Calgary office

Same as me. It seems Calgary office is slow

 

[dbhalotia]

Can anyone share the spreadsheet link please?

Thanks

 

[maverick1982]

Can anyone share the spreadsheet link please?

Thanks

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P3V8UJOTwiiYd2TC8O5a5rKq4GlqpAXq9Zr1rfrScSc/edit?usp=sharing

 

[popsicle9900]

Physical presence completed today. Everything else complete.

No oath letter/date yet.

 

[maverick1982]

Physical presence completed today. Everything else complete.

No oath letter/date yet.

Updated.

 

[Greenmaple2020]

No question is silly. We are all learning. Visible on tracker is when you see the actual update (two day delay) . The history in the tracker at bottom shows the date the update happened. So the officer may have updated on Monday, but you wont see it till wedensday. When you see the update on wednesday, the history at the bottom still shows Monday as date which we consider actual update date but at the top it shows Wednesdays date. . Ghost update is when just the date changes on the top. But no updates are see in the process or stages.

I don't often sign in the account. Don't know what was the "ghost update".....

 

[maverick1982]

I don't often sign in the account. Don't know what was the "ghost update".....

You won't know what it was. You will just see date updated. If after two days you see an update then it was the update that showed up as ghost update when officer worked on file. If nothing shows up on tracker two days later then it's hard to say what was worked on