December 2018 - Citizenship Applications

[Shazsabb]

Hi,
Question 10(b) in citizenship application( were you in a country other than Canada for 183 days or more in a row since age 18) check yes/No

, It also says in a note that if you were in your country immediately prior to becoming PR and landing in Canada and this is the time falls within past 4 year period, You are not required to provide Police Clearance Certificate. Please indicate in the explanation box
Do I need to check mark on yes(because i was in my home country before becoming PR and it was more than 183 days)? and then in the explanation box >> should I write that this is the time prior to becoming PR?
Also, I don't have to provide Police Cert?
Please guide me.
Thanks in advance.

 

[olax99]

Good morning,

Just got a test invite email on April 15,2019.
Testing Center at 325 Milner Ave Scarborough.
Good luck and God bless us all.

Olax99

 

[_KK8512_]

Good morning,

Just got a test invite email on April 15,2019.
Testing Center at 325 Milner Ave Scarborough.
Good luck and God bless us all.

Olax99

Nice, congratulations on being the first Ontario-based applicant to get a test-invitation in this thread. No updates on my side yet.

 

[sk1984indian]

Congratulations and Good luck!

Good morning,

Just got a test invite email on April 15,2019.
Testing Center at 325 Milner Ave Scarborough.
Good luck and God bless us all.

Olax99

 

[SAMHR]

Finally, Received the AOR. Please update the spreadsheet.

 

[steveca2012]

Check in ecas, you don’t get email for that

Thanks, just checked, in progress since March 20th, add me on the timelines, thanks

 

[Reddysar]

I have received AOR on 06-March but still status not changed to "In-process" (from AOR to till today -28 days ). Could you please update any time lines to change "in process"

 

[RinRin]

I have received AOR on 06-March but still status not changed to "In-process" (from AOR to till today -28 days ). Could you please update any time lines to change "in process"

I received AOR on March 5 and the status hasn't changed to in process either.

 

[Rullence]

Seemed like dec applicants have been left behind.

 

[_KK8512_]

Seemed like dec applicants have been left behind.

All we can do is wait. The average processing time is 1 year, we're barely 4 months in, have some patience. In my case, it has not been 1 month since I got IP. The earliest people get their test invite is 1 month even for applicants from earlier months.

There is bureaucracy, there is randomness. Nobody knows which queue our respective applications are sent to. Maybe there is a weird case/application in the queue that is holding up the other applications behind. Maybe the officer handling the queue our applications are in is on holiday. Maybe some offices are under-loaded and work faster while other offices are over-loaded and are accumulating back-log. Only IRCC knows and there is no point agonizing over it. Just wait, sooner or later there will be movement.

 

[cheire]

Seemed like dec applicants have been left behind.

All we can do is wait. The average processing time is 1 year, we're barely 4 months in, have some patience. In my case, it has not been 1 month since I got IP. The earliest people get their test invite is 1 month even for applicants from earlier months.

There is bureaucracy, there is randomness. Nobody knows which queue our respective applications are sent to. Maybe there is a weird case/application in the queue that is holding up the other applications behind. Maybe the officer handling the queue our applications are in is on holiday. Maybe some offices are under-loaded and work faster while other offices are over-loaded and are accumulating back-log. Only IRCC knows and there is no point agonizing over it. Just wait, sooner or later there will be movement.

Thats true
And i also feel like dec applicants are not posting things here as much as other months applicants do, or may be less people applied in dec

 

[_KK8512_]

Thats true
And i also feel like dec applicants are not posting things here as much as other months applicants do, or may be less people applied in dec

For those of us who are in IP, we know that it's a months-long waiting game, what do you want us to say ? Based on the data from previous months, we could be looking at anything from 1 month to 1 full year before getting a test invite. There is literally no way to determine when IRCC will contact us, so why agonize over it ?

 

[MAGICEYES]

It’s been a slow news week in the forum. Hopefully next week is better.

 

[nov1061]

I received AOR on March 5 and the status hasn't changed to in process either.

Hi,
after AOR everything depends on your local CIC office. As we know those offices work in different speed (due to the number of applicants) so we can expect to see bigger time differences between applications now.

 

[Laplaguita]

All we can do is wait. The average processing time is 1 year, we're barely 4 months in, have some patience. In my case, it has not been 1 month since I got IP. The earliest people get their test invite is 1 month even for applicants from earlier months.

There is bureaucracy, there is randomness. Nobody knows which queue our respective applications are sent to. Maybe there is a weird case/application in the queue that is holding up the other applications behind. Maybe the officer handling the queue our applications are in is on holiday. Maybe some offices are under-loaded and work faster while other offices are over-loaded and are accumulating back-log. Only IRCC knows and there is no point agonizing over it. Just wait, sooner or later there will be movement.

Sooner than later I hope

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