Reminder: I am NOT an expert.
@dpenabill
rq cit0171 received as of march 13-18 and submitted my documents already as requested. just missed to enter 3 days trip to newyork which triggered the RQ.
ordered ATIP notes and says in queue to be reviewed. what shall i do !! can i reapply and withdraw my current application !
also i noticed on ATIP notes that my file was transferred to scarborough and now its back in windsor.
also the due date on my atip notes says nov 26-18. what does that mean!!
appreciate your help
thanks
At this stage there is NOT much, if anything, you can do let alone need to do . . . unless there are some key documents you have which you did not include with what you submitted already. If you have such documents, you can submit those as a supplemental response, making sure to provide all the information necessary to connect the submission to your citizenship application file.
Other than that, you are in WAIT mode, WAIT and WATCH for communication from IRCC, and respond accordingly.
Your main opportunity to further influence the decision-making was in how you responded to the RQ. You may get another opportunity if the Citizenship Officer schedules a presence-determination interview or if the Citizenship Officer refers the case to a Citizenship Judge and there is a hearing with the CJ. In either of those events you will be able to appear and make your case.
Timeline is utterly unknown. For quite awhile now the forum has not seen many personal experience reports about the CIT 0171 (full-blown RQ) process. It appears that these days RQ means IRCC has overt if not serious concerns, if not outright suspicions.
It is possible your submission will satisfy the Citizenship Officer and the next action on your file might be scheduling you to attend a Oath ceremony. In the past, when RQ was far more common, this was actually the most common outcome; that is, after a delay, sometimes a rather long delay, most RQ'd applicants were eventually scheduled to take the oath. But, again, for the last couple years or so there are so few reports about how it has gone in RQ we do not currently know much about how these cases usually go.
But for now you are in WAIT and WATCH mode.
RE WITHDRAWING and RE-APPLYING: Yes, you can do that. Whether to do that or not is a very personal decision. The specific facts matter. Since any suspicions raised by this application are NOT likely to be resolved or satisfactorily answered by withdrawing, there may be little to gain by withdrawing. If in contrast you simply applied too soon, and just a few days off makes a big difference (even if technically that means you still have a margin albeit very small margin over the minimum), and you are confident that is the ONLY reason why IRCC has questions or concerns, then it might be better to withdraw and re-apply. BUT the details in your case, way, way too many personal details to try enumerating them in a venue like this, are really important . . . this is either for you to decide after carefully reviewing every aspect of your case and immigration history, or for you to see a lawyer for a consultation to help you make this decision.
Just received the PPQA. I have a few questions.
1. For one place I lived I did not have a lease agreement or anything in writing, would a letter from the the homeowner be enough?
2. Do I need to get a letter from my previous places of employment if I have the record of employment for them. I tried to contact the HR manager but they seem to not care about my request. I have a job letter from the time I worked there which I can send in would that suffice or do I have to keep asking for the letter.
3.I have applied for my entry/exit record from my home country but they may take awhile to get back to me. Can I send in my application without it if the dateline approaches and then resend the record when I get it?
Thanks
Assuming this is specifically the PPQ- QAE including CIT 0205, received before being scheduled for a test or interview, almost all indications suggest it is OK to make a concerted effort to provide what is requested as best the applicant can, to identify and explain what is NOT being submitted, including some reasonable substitute for what is not available or explain why this or that is not YET available while clearly (and truthfully) describing what action has been taken to obtain the document.
See above discussion distinguishing differences between RQ (CIT 0171) and the PPQ-QAE (with CIT 0205), including emphasis on the latter really being about Quality Assurance, a procedure which gathers additional information and documentation in order to evaluate the efficacy of the application and routine process. Thus,
substantial performance should suffice. It is NOT about proving a questioned or challenged case.
Thus, for address and employment history, do the best you can and explain why there is any shortcoming. (After all, manufacturing documentation is NOT really an option. What you have plus what you can obtain from others is the best you can do.)
As for the Entry/Exit records, IRCC is very well familiar with what is involved in obtaining such records for the vast majority of countries in the world. If available, how long it takes, and so on. See the IRCC website for what information they have about this process. So your best effort and a TRUTHFUL explanation otherwise should suffice, since to a large extent IRCC already knows well enough.
