October 11th 2017 - Citizenship Applicants under 3/5 rule
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Hello everyone
Citizenship applicant Calgary
Citizenship applicant Calgary
- We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on October 23, 2017.
- We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on December 1, 2017.
- We started processing your application on December 19, 2017.
- We sent you a notice on January 22, 2018 to appear and write the citizenship test on March 6, 2018 at 8:00 AM. The notice you will receive by mail will be your official confirmation of your appointment. If you have not received this notice prior to the date of your scheduled appointment, please contact us.
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Scarborough is Center is totally dead ...not a single oat applicant yet , lots of old people cic officers work there, they need to resign or leave the job, if they can’t do it , just wasting the money .. extremely slow location for in terms of process. 
MarceauBletard
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- Montréal, Québec
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- 18-05-2011 WHP
As per this post: https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/montréal-applicants-oct-2017-after-c6.533324/page-36#post-6864148
Please add:
Name: cassandratssp
Location: Montreal
Oct. 16th, 2017 Received Files
Dec. 19th, 2017 Started Processing
Jan. 8th, 2018 Test Invitation
Jan. 31st, 2018 Test & Interview
Decision Made unknown
Apr. 12th, 2018 Oath Invitation (not the 10th)
Apr. 25th, 2018 Oath
Please add:
Name: cassandratssp
Location: Montreal
Oct. 16th, 2017 Received Files
Dec. 19th, 2017 Started Processing
Jan. 8th, 2018 Test Invitation
Jan. 31st, 2018 Test & Interview
Decision Made unknown
Apr. 12th, 2018 Oath Invitation (not the 10th)
Apr. 25th, 2018 Oath
To be fair, Scarborough office is doing a large portion of the process quite well, test invites are pretty fast, Decision made was next business day after the test for many applicants who's background checks were already complete & had no outstanding documents.
Oath is extremely slow for sure - but probably the Citizenship Judge is the bottleneck, not the officers...so any officer resigning will not solve the Oath backlog...just saying.
Random thoughts on this process;
I still do not understand how some background checks are much longer than others. I think if the applicant background check is longer than normal the status should be updated online to inform the applicant what is going on.
Why do some people get FP request and others do not?, why is FP request given at different times (i.e. before test for most, some get it after test, and other are never requested), why is it that some FP request letters are worded more strongly than others (i.e. time frame to get FP, reminders etc. When I did my FP the fingerprint technician was saying the same, he has seen some people get 1 st ,2nd 3rd reminders and others don't). Furthermore you have people who applied in November and in December who have DM already when you have some people who applied in Oct who are still waiting for a test date. In my opinion there should be some consistency, this process seems like it is Agent dependent.
However in all that rant , I am reminded that the process should take a year so one should not worry too much..
I still do not understand how some background checks are much longer than others. I think if the applicant background check is longer than normal the status should be updated online to inform the applicant what is going on.
Why do some people get FP request and others do not?, why is FP request given at different times (i.e. before test for most, some get it after test, and other are never requested), why is it that some FP request letters are worded more strongly than others (i.e. time frame to get FP, reminders etc. When I did my FP the fingerprint technician was saying the same, he has seen some people get 1 st ,2nd 3rd reminders and others don't). Furthermore you have people who applied in November and in December who have DM already when you have some people who applied in Oct who are still waiting for a test date. In my opinion there should be some consistency, this process seems like it is Agent dependent.
However in all that rant , I am reminded that the process should take a year so one should not worry too much..
What is your evidence that there isn't a single oath applicant? July and August applicants have been reporting oath invitations.
Added the applicant. I looked at his old post to find out DM date. However, his AOR date is unknown.
I guess the OP meant not a single "October applicant" got an Oath invite from Scarborough Office which is evident in the Oct. sheet.
Yes, I know, but I nit-pick troll rants. Especially the more stupid and baseless ones.
Please Update - DM Today, Passed Test on 12 April, 2018. 20/20
Citizenship Application
Sent: Oct 16, 2017
Arrived: Oct 19, 2017
AOR: Dec 20, 2017
In Process: Jan 02, 2018
Test Invite: Mar 23, 2018
Test Date: Apr 12, 2018
DM: Apr 13, 2018
City: Calgary
Type: Single
Eligibility Days: 1192 Days
Citizenship Application
Sent: Oct 16, 2017
Arrived: Oct 19, 2017
AOR: Dec 20, 2017
In Process: Jan 02, 2018
Test Invite: Mar 23, 2018
Test Date: Apr 12, 2018
DM: Apr 13, 2018
City: Calgary
Type: Single
Eligibility Days: 1192 Days
I have my test next week. Which online tests did you practice?
I am looking at the below links:
http://citizenshiptests.ca/
http://citizenshipcounts.ca/study