Hi everyone,
I have received an email from my local immigration office today.
"Thank you for your email. Your file is not yet ready to be scheduled for a citizenship ceremony.
As part of the citizenship application process, applicants must receive valid clearances. At this time, one of your clearances is pending. Unfortunately, we are unable to advise you as to when this will be completed, as we are waiting for this clearance to be passed by an external partner.
Please be advised that our office periodically checks your file and will continue its processing as soon as all clearances have been completed.
Please note that you will be notified 3 to 4 weeks in advance of your ceremony."
So after further inquiry, I found that the external partner is CSIS. Further to this, I have requested the computer notes from CSIS via Privacy information Act. So if CIC is telling you that your file is under clearance or security checks then you could send the computer notes request to CSIS. Let's see how helpful they are.