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velaven

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Apr 15, 2011
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Hi there,
im a refugee claimant and got my permanent residency approved and eligible to apply for citizenship. I applied for my citizenship on December 2017 and got my AOR on February 22,2018. yesterday i went through some stuff at the forum about the refugee status cessation and pr's. I'm kind of bothered. I haven't went to my home country since i claimed refugee. But I'm not aware and dont have an idea that i shouldn't renew my home country passport i just got to know about this when read the thread from the forum, i just renew the passport for travelling purposes, i traveled just once with that passport for vacation in Singapore with my family. I'm kind of concern now about this, will i have any problem just because of the renewal of my passport? please advise. Thanks in advance.
 
optimistic6

optimistic6

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Jul 21, 2015
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velaven said:
Hi there,
im a refugee claimant and got my permanent residency approved and eligible to apply for citizenship. I applied for my citizenship on December 2017 and got my AOR on February 22,2018. yesterday i went through some stuff at the forum about the refugee status cessation and pr's. I'm kind of bothered. I haven't went to my home country since i claimed refugee. But I'm not aware and dont have an idea that i shouldn't renew my home country passport i just got to know about this when read the thread from the forum, i just renew the passport for travelling purposes, i traveled just once with that passport for vacation in Singapore with my family. I'm kind of concern now about this, will i have any problem just because of the renewal of my passport? please advise. Thanks in advance.
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Did you Travel before submitting your application or after ? I mean did you mention in your application this trip ?

As per rule, its not recommended and IRCC has right to fight against it but most of the time they do not care.
 
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velaven

Newbie
Apr 15, 2011
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optimistic6 said:
Did you Travel before submitting your application or after ? I mean did you mention in your application this trip ?

As per rule, its not recommended and IRCC has right to fight against it but most of the time they do not care.
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yea i mention in the application about the trip but the trip that went was not to my home country, just a vacation trip to different country.
 
optimistic6

optimistic6

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Jul 21, 2015
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velaven said:
yea i mention in the application about the trip but the trip that went was not to my home country, just a vacation trip to different country.
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Refugees are not recommended to use their home country passport for travel. They must need to use Travel Document till to become Citizen.

I would suggest, be prepared to answer the question during Interview that " Why you used your home country passport" ? Might be they do not notice that you used your own country passport and might be they can ask.

Is there any stamp on your passport ? Entry/Exit from Canada and Singapore ?
 
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