Possibility of changing 1095-day eligibility rule

[ccaallvviinn]

While nobody has a crystal ball, just curious about everyone's opinion on the possibility of changing the 1095-day eligibility rule by the new government after the federal election in 2025.

Personally, I will pass the 1095 days time mark in August, 2025 and will apply for citizenship afterwards with a small buffer.

 

[armoured]

While nobody has a crystal ball, just curious about everyone's opinion on the possibility of changing the 1095-day eligibility rule by the new government after the federal election in 2025.

Personally, I will pass the 1095 days time mark in August, 2025 and will apply for citizenship afterwards with a small buffer.

I don't think it's impossible that it would be changed, but: I seriously doubt that this would be high on the list of priorities, at least for a couple of years. There's plenty of other immigration and citizenship problems to deal with. More likely, frankly, would just be slower processing with new 'extra tough' security clearance stuff.

Just my guess/opinion though.

 

[Seym]

If the past tells us anything about the future : Harper became PM in 2006, the change to 4 years and no PR credit became effective in 2015.
Trudeau's citizenship change took 2 years "only", but it was in his electoral promise.
Poilievre never spoke about it as far as I know. There's a very high chance you're a citizen long before he entertains the idea, if he ever does...

 

[scylla]

While nobody has a crystal ball, just curious about everyone's opinion on the possibility of changing the 1095-day eligibility rule by the new government after the federal election in 2025.

Personally, I will pass the 1095 days time mark in August, 2025 and will apply for citizenship afterwards with a small buffer.

Anything is possible. They did it before and the Liberals reversed it.

 

[lifein360]

Speaking of electoral promises that were not kept, Trudeau also didn't remove the citizenship fees that were part of the Libs' 2019 platform

https://liberal.ca/our-platform/eliminating-citizenship-application-fees-for-permanent-residents/

Anyway - the party is now mostly decimated and this is at the bottom of prioritities immigration wise

 

[Bloodrose]

Highly unlikely. The focus will be on reducing new immigrant numbers and even more so, numbers of temporary residents. Those changes are already happening.

It's doubtful they would make it harder for those already on immigrant status here to naturalize. In fact, most governments tend to encourage naturalization because it pushes down immigrant statistics.

 

[scylla]

Highly unlikely. The focus will be on reducing new immigrant numbers and even more so, numbers of temporary residents. Those changes are already happening.

It's doubtful they would make it harder for those already on immigrant status here to naturalize. In fact, most governments tend to encourage naturalization because it pushes down immigrant statistics.

They did it last time they were in power. So possible they may do again. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Copingwithlife]

Canadas citizenship requirements is laughably low compared to other countries . It’s almost a joke

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/citizenship/

Most countries are 5-10 years

The pendulum swung far to much to the left with these idiots

Let’s not forget about people immediately leaving the county and going to the USA to work under a TN visa after they get a Canadian passport
Like immediately afterward

The Americans have noticed that and there’s rumours online they want to put restrictions on doing that

It’s turned into a passport of convenience because the rules have become so lenient

 

[Bloodrose]

Canadas citizenship requirements is laughably low compared to other countries . It’s almost a joke

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/citizenship/

Most countries are 5-10 years

The pendulum swung far to much to the left with these idiots

Let’s not forget about people immediately leaving the county and going to the USA to work under a TN visa after they get a Canadian passport
Like immediately afterward
The Americans have noticed that and there’s rumours online they want to put restrictions on doing that

3 years for NZ, 4 years for Australia and 5 years for the US and UK. I don't know that Canada's 3 years is a huge departure tbh, especially since Canada also treats PR's differently to those countries anyway.

The countries with 10+ year requirements are hardly Canada's peers.

 

[CanadianDreamer@TO]

Canadas citizenship requirements is laughably low compared to other countries . It’s almost a joke

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/citizenship/

Most countries are 5-10 years

The pendulum swung far to much to the left with these idiots

Let’s not forget about people immediately leaving the county and going to the USA to work under a TN visa after they get a Canadian passport
Like immediately afterward

The Americans have noticed that and there’s rumours online they want to put restrictions on doing that

It’s turned into a passport of convenience because the rules have become so lenient

Are you saying that their will be criteria for who can apply for TN Visa? For e.g. people who have acquired Canadian Citizenship should have held it for 5 years before they are eligible for TN Visa. Is this what you are referring to?

 

[canuck78]

3 years for NZ, 4 years for Australia and 5 years for the US and UK. I don't know that Canada's 3 years is a huge departure tbh, especially since Canada also treats PR's differently to those countries anyway.

The countries with 10+ year requirements are hardly Canada's peers.

Personal opinion but eliminating credit for time as a temporary residents and intent to remain in Canada may be more likely. 4 out of 6 years may also return. The current system allows people to leave right after 3 years which is not a huge benefit to Canada and creates significant liabilities. We’ll all need to wait and see.

 

[Copingwithlife]

3 years for NZ, 4 years for Australia and 5 years for the US and UK. I don't know that Canada's 3 years is a huge departure tbh, especially since Canada also treats PR's differently to those countries anyway.

The countries with 10+ year requirements are hardly Canada's peers.

Three years ?
Then know one should be concerned if they increase the years required to get citizenship to match Australia, USA & UK

Hey it’s only a year, no big deal

One only has to be in Canada two out of five years to maintain RO

That’s not even 50%
Repeat 50 %

Ridiculous. And people still have issues meeting it . That pretty well sums up how serious people take being PR in this country .

 

[armoured]

Personal opinion but eliminating credit for time as a temporary residents and intent to remain in Canada may be more likely. 4 out of 6 years may also return. The current system allows people to leave right after 3 years which is not a huge benefit to Canada and creates significant liabilities. We’ll all need to wait and see.

Leaving aside the posts here that hew more to the "I wish it were so"* rather than likely, I think the main points are:
-changes that can be made quickly with less complicated legislative steps are more likely to happen;
-tightening regulations / rules by eliminating some bits that are relatively minor (in the grand scheme of things) are also more likely - and also more likely to be positively seen by the public at large.

I'd rank your list as amongst the more likely options available. With my slight comments:
-I think priorities will be elsewhere for a bit. Maybe not for long, though. Anythign 'border' 'security' and the like will be higher up.
-announcing some 'tightening' about physical presence after applying would be easier/quite effective without the (quite complex) legal issues about how to show 'intent to remain.' Allocating low priority / extra checks for all files where the applicant doesn't remain in Canada - basically just slow walking all such apps - would be a nasty but effective bureaucratic move. (It would be potentially open to a lot of mandamus requests, but just call them all 'complex' and wave hands at security issues; oddly possibly less vulnerable to being overturned. Given the backlog in refugee files etc they can change processing priorities and slow walk some things)
-remove the time as a TR - wouldn't cause such a hue and cry as moving it to four years, but would be fairly simple legislatively and fairly popular. (They could also just change the ratio, or limit it in some other ways, like minimum three years as a TR and must be for work)
-4 out of 6 years - my only reservation here is I think it would be fairly unpopular, or at least less popular than other measures, and kind of 'not done' to just nakedly reinstate what was done before. But on the other hand, fairly straightforward.

*Nothign wrong with "I wish it were so" type posts, just I thought the interesting part of the original question was how likely in the nearer term.