October 11th 2017 - Citizenship Applicants under 3/5 rule

[sns204]

1. We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on October 26, 2017.
2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on December 12, 2017.
3. We started processing your application on December 27, 2017.
4. We sent you correspondence on February 1, 2018. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the correspondence before sending us additional information, as the correspondence will outline all information that is required.

I did my fingerprint test as soon as I got the letter in February. The status has not been updated yet.

Anyone going through the same? I know I'm still under the 12 month processing time so I'm not sure if I should wait more or do something about it!

There won't be a status change due to your FP being received. Hopefully your test invite is coming soon, though.

 

[Narinder s]

1. We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on October 26, 2017.
2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on December 12, 2017.
3. We started processing your application on December 27, 2017.
4. We sent you correspondence on February 1, 2018. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the correspondence before sending us additional information, as the correspondence will outline all information that is required.

I did my fingerprint test as soon as I got the letter in February. The status has not been updated yet.

Anyone going through the same? I know I'm still under the 12 month processing time so I'm not sure if I should wait more or do something about it!

I am in a same situation like u. Got fp request on feb 5. Done fp on feb 10. And nothing after that.

 

[rajmalhotra7]

Summary of October 2017 applicants (by Date Delivered) as per Google tracker:

Date	#Total	#AOR	#IP	#Test Invite	%Test Invite	#Test Held	#DM	%DM	#Oath Invite	%Oath Invite	#Oath Held
2-Oct-17	5	5	5	4	80.0%	3	3	60.0%	2	40.0%	2
3-Oct-17	3	3	3	3	100.0%	3	3	100.0%	3	100.0%	3
5-Oct-17	4	4	4	4	100.0%	4	4	100.0%	2	50.0%	2
6-Oct-17	7	7	7	7	100.0%	6	5	71.4%	4	57.1%	4
10-Oct-17	8	8	8	6	75.0%	6	6	75.0%	4	50.0%	3
12-Oct-17	29	29	28	20	69.0%	20	16	55.2%	11	37.9%	9
13-Oct-17	106	104	97	77	72.6%	69	56	52.8%	40	37.7%	31
16-Oct-17	337	331	303	236	70.0%	224	176	52.2%	134	39.8%	108
17-Oct-17	61	59	52	34	55.7%	34	28	45.9%	18	29.5%	13
18-Oct-17	80	80	77	52	65.0%	50	38	47.5%	30	37.5%	25
19-Oct-17	128	123	114	74	57.8%	73	58	45.3%	37	28.9%	24
20-Oct-17	70	69	62	44	62.9%	40	29	41.4%	17	24.3%	10
23-Oct-17	54	53	49	32	59.3%	31	25	46.3%	17	31.5%	11
24-Oct-17	10	9	9	8	80.0%	7	3	30.0%	2	20.0%	1
25-Oct-17	25	23	21	13	52.0%	12	7	28.0%	5	20.0%	2
26-Oct-17	36	34	33	18	50.0%	18	11	30.6%	8	22.2%	4
27-Oct-17	24	23	20	9	37.5%	8	5	20.8%	-	-	-
30-Oct-17	30	28	27	19	63.3%	17	15	50.0%	10	33.3%	6
31-Oct-17	12	11	11	5	41.7%	5	5	41.7%	4	33.3%	1
Total	1029	1003	930	665	64.6%	630	493	47.9%	348	33.8%	259

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Summary of October 2017 applicants (by Visa Office) as per Google tracker:

Visa Office	#Total	#AOR	#IP	#Test Invite	%Test Invite	#Test Held	#DM	%DM	#Oath Invite	%Oath Invite	#Oath Held
Blank	14	12	6	1	7.1%	1	1	7.1%	-	-	-
Calgary	119	115	104	88	73.9%	84	71	59.7%	65	54.6%	44
Edmonton	72	67	61	53	73.6%	51	36	50.0%	29	40.3%	28
Fredericton	5	5	5	2	40.0%	2	2	40.0%	2	40.0%	-
Halifax	8	8	8	6	75.0%	6	6	75.0%	4	50.0%	3
Hamilton	32	30	29	22	68.8%	21	15	46.9%	12	37.5%	7
Kitchener	36	36	36	22	61.1%	21	16	44.4%	14	38.9%	10
London	11	11	11	6	54.5%	6	5	45.5%	4	36.4%	4
Mississauga	122	120	113	50	41.0%	40	35	28.7%	31	25.4%	22
Montreal	140	136	127	98	70.0%	98	79	56.4%	59	42.1%	39
Niagara Falls	3	3	3	3	100.0%	3	1	33.3%	1	33.3%	1
Ottawa	80	79	75	71	88.8%	71	55	68.8%	48	60.0%	42
Regina	15	15	14	11	73.3%	10	8	53.3%	4	26.7%	-
Saskatoon	25	25	21	16	64.0%	16	15	60.0%	13	52.0%	10
Scarborough	118	118	117	103	87.3%	93	76	64.4%	3	2.5%	1
St. John's	6	6	6	4	66.7%	4	1	16.7%	-	-	-
Surrey	10	10	10	8	80.0%	7	5	50.0%	4	40.0%	3
Toronto*	73	68	52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vancouver	111	110	104	86	77.5%	83	57	51.4%	46	41.4%	37
Windsor	9	9	8	4	44.4%	4	3	33.3%	3	33.3%	3
Winnipeg	20	20	20	11	55.0%	9	6	30.0%	6	30.0%	5
Total	1029	1003	930	665	64.6%	630	493	47.9%	348	33.8%	259

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Monthly/ Weekly Summary of October 2017 applicants as per Google tracker:

Month/ Week of	#AOR	#IP	#Test Invite	#Test Held	#DM	#Oath Invite	#Oath Held
October, 2017	43	-	-	-	-	-	-
November, 2017	633	155	-	-	-	-	-
December, 2017	247	436	38	-	-	-	-
January, 2018	52	274	246	81	35	7	1
February, 2018	25	55	186	224	148	55	17
March, 2018	3	8	100	201	173	123	70
April, 2018	-	2	78	91	96	119	119
May 01 - May 06	-	-	9	19	21	19	25
May 07 - May 13	-	-	7	10	18	25	26
May 14 - May 20	-	-	1	4	2	-	1
Total	1003	930	665	630	493	348	259

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* Toronto: Applicants have reported to be located in Toronto. Once applicants receive test invites, their location will be changed to Visa office sending the test invite either Scarborough or Mississauga.

 

[angrypinky]

Anyone from surrey bc waiting for oath invite?

Yes, test held and passed on April 4th. Still waiting for DM and Oath invite.

 

[angrypinky]

I am from surrey bc, waiting for oath, decision made was done on 25th Apr, how about your timeline, others with similar timeline got the oath, I am suspecting that those are singles that might be the reason its quick for them.

I'm still waiting for my DM. Single. Surrey, BC. Test held and passed on April 4th.

 

[thebassi35]

I am from surrey bc, waiting for oath, decision made was done on 25th Apr, how about your timeline, others with similar timeline got the oath, I am suspecting that those are singles that might be the reason its quick for them.

i passed test on april 5. when was your test ?

 

[JaihLee416]

1. We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on October 26, 2017.
2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on December 12, 2017.
3. We started processing your application on December 27, 2017.
4. We sent you correspondence on February 1, 2018. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the correspondence before sending us additional information, as the correspondence will outline all information that is required.

I did my fingerprint test as soon as I got the letter in February. The status has not been updated yet.

Anyone going through the same? I know I'm still under the 12 month processing time so I'm not sure if I should wait more or do something about it!

I wen through the same.

1. We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on October 16, 2017.
2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on November 15, 2017.
3. We started processing your application on December 4, 2017.
4. We sent you correspondence on January 23, 2018. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the correspondence before sending us additional information, as the correspondence will outline all information that is required.
5. We sent you a notice on April 25, 2018 to appear and write the citizenship test on May 30, 2018 at 12:45 PM. 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.

I had a wait a while after for the test. They got all doc from RCMP on Feb 19th. But had to wait

 

[emamabd]

Summary of October 2017 applicants (by Date Delivered) as per Google tracker:

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Wow, with regards to Oath invites, Scarborough is still very low at 2.5%.

Generally the website shows about 2 ceremonies per week happening in Scarborough..i wonder who are those people being called for these ceremonies?! I haven't seen many August or September Scarborough applicants receiving Oath invites in the past couple of weeks either, and obviously no October applicants too...apart from the 2-3 exceptions which we know about.

 

[sns204]

Wow, with regards to Oath invites, Scarborough is still very low at 2.5%.

Generally the website shows about 2 ceremonies per week happening in Scarborough..i wonder who are those people being called for these ceremonies?! I haven't seen many August or September Scarborough applicants receiving Oath invites in the past couple of weeks either, and obviously no October applicants too...apart from the 2-3 exceptions which we know about.

I think it just goes to show how low a percentage of total applications this forum represents. That's why it often feels like there is little or no movement. They are working on the 10's of thousands of applications they have in that office.

 

[robreeves]

I don't know if the owner of the status spreadsheet is on this chain or if anyone there has write access to it but is anyone able to update or turn on the autocomplete on the calculation cells on the processing tabs? It seems the numbers on there are not in line with the monthly data tabs.

Thanks

 

[sana123]

I think it just goes to show how low a percentage of total applications this forum represents. That's why it often feels like there is little or no movement. They are working on the 10's of thousands of applications they have in that office.

This is true, even less than 50% of ppl on this forum filling the tracker.

 

[dpenabill]

Reminder: there are often Oath ceremonies which are not publicized on the IRCC website (I have no idea why many are, while many others are not), and attended by candidates who are not participants here or by participants who do not report specific information about their own application.

Odds are high that, indeed, there are at least TEN THOUSAND taking the oath in any given month, and in some months it can approach double that.

And it is very likely there are, thus, scores of oath ceremonies every month for the local offices around the GTA, many of which are in effect unreported.

 

[Theowl]

Congrats!
When was your test?

I had the test on March 6
After 9 weeks my ecas changed to DM

 

[PCD2013]

nothing to worry about, they will give it to you to sign on test day

Actually I did my test March 28th in Hamilton. I was not given any paper that relates to prohibition to sign on that day.
Anyone else took the test in Hamilton can confirm having signed this paper on the test day or not?

 

[Pier]

Hi Guys.

It is been almost three months that my status hasn't changed from "Decision Made". I'd like to get an update regarding my application. Is there any email address that we can send our request to? I appreciate if you could help