September 2020 - Citizenship Applicants

[rajkamalmohanram]

Do they mean all the pages of passport or just first page of details?

AFAIK, all the pages of all passports that were valid during your eligibility period. That is the same documentation they would ask if you were invited for an interview.

 

[rajneeshv]

Do they mean all the pages of passport or just first page of details?

Here are the next few sentences from the Request Letter. This should help you understand the ask:

If you do not have a travel document or passport, please provide an explanation.
You must provide a colour copy of each page, including blank pages – IN PDF FORMAT.
The required documents have to be sent within 14 calendar days from the date of this notice and by replying to this email.
If necessary, you may be asked to present your original documents or other documents at a later date. Please note that if you are unable to send the scanned copies or photos through email, please contact us by the deadline.

 

[luvtrump]

AFAIK, all the pages of all passports that were valid during your eligibility period. That is the same documentation they would ask if you were invited for an interview.

I have always been confused . In citizenship app they mention absence from Canada where I just mentioned one country where I left. For eg I travel back to dubai from ca which is my home base but I went further to another country from there for 3 months . Do I still mention the country where I stayed for 3 to 4 months ? Coz from ca I went to dxb.

 

[luvtrump]

Here are the next few sentences from the Request Letter. This should help you understand the ask:

If you do not have a travel document or passport, please provide an explanation.
You must provide a colour copy of each page, including blank pages – IN PDF FORMAT.
The required documents have to be sent within 14 calendar days from the date of this notice and by replying to this email.
If necessary, you may be asked to present your original documents or other documents at a later date. Please note that if you are unable to send the scanned copies or photos through email, please contact us by the deadline.

Ok I get it. I did that for my PR but never asked me for citizenship . Hmm

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

I have always been confused . In citizenship app they mention absence from Canada where I just mentioned one country where I left. For eg I travel back to dubai from ca which is my home base but I went further to another country from there for 3 months . Do I still mention the country where I stayed for 3 to 4 months ? Coz from ca I went to dxb.

Well, you should mention all the trips, I think. I mean, you could have just written a LOE stating that as a part of a single trip, you went from Canada to Dubai (stay for 15 days) > From Dubai to Cairo (for example) and stayed there for 4 months. Total trip time = 4.5 months. You could have this as a single entry in the physical presence calculator for a period of 4.5 months but it is best to explain with LOE about the sub-trips from Dubai. Because you don't want them asking you more questions and raising eyebrows when looking at the stamps on your passport.

 

[mohdmayar]

You must be from a high risk country otherwise doesnt take that long .

I rea;;y do not know what to do. Three children are in my application, and their PRC are about to expire. October 2021

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

I rea;;y do not know what to do. Three children are in my application, and their PRC are about to expire. October 2021

Expiry of their PR cards (or yours) has no bearing on citizenship application. Don't worry about that. Just go ahead and renew the PR cards if you are planning to travel in the meantime.

Please apply for GCMS notes from IRCC first. We can review the information from it and then decide if you have to apply notes from other agencies as well.

 

[luvtrump]

Well, you should mention all the trips, I think. I mean, you could have just written a LOE stating that as a part of a single trip, you went from Canada to Dubai (stay for 15 days) > From Dubai to Cairo (for example) and stayed there for 4 months. Total trip time = 4.5 months. You could have this as a single entry in the physical presence calculator for a period of 4.5 months but it is best to explain with LOE about the sub-trips from Dubai. Because you don't want them asking you more questions and raising eyebrows when looking at the stamps on your passport.

Well I never mentioned that I went to the third country coz the more I mention the more the delay. I just gave them a single entry to my home base. Well they never asked me for each page of passport anyways so let's see. Still trying to figure out TFR clearances .

 

[micky007]

Many of the September applicants are in the same situation. You are not alone. You should keep in mind that several 2019 applicants are still waiting for their test too.

What the status of BG checks on the New Citizenship status Dashboard ?

There is nothing we can do at this point but wait. If you want, you can order GCMS notes to see where your application is and get some more details about the processing of your application that you wouldn't otherwise be able to get.

Could you please provide your information in the following format so that I can add you to the spreadsheet?

Location:
App Type: Single / Family (# of applicants)
Physical Presence Days:
App Sent:
App Delivered:
AOR:
In-Progress:

Also, from the new status dashboard, can you please provide the dates of the following :

Background Check "Completed"

Thanks.

edmonton,

16 September filed
Delivered 21 September 2020

no AOR email and called to get the file number on 26 feb
I don’t know what’s going with them I should have done with my citizenship already by now .
Everything is in progress no updates or anything after AOR ,

they freaking took 5 months for AOR seriously

 

[luvtrump]

edmonton,

16 September filed
Delivered 21 September 2020

no AOR email and called to get the file number on 26 feb
I don’t know what’s going with them I should have done with my citizenship already by now .
Everything is in progress no updates or anything after AOR ,

they freaking took 5 months for AOR seriously

Cic is going through another pandemic, the offices are out of toilet paper.

 

[Georgesand]

Quick Update - As I mentioned in earlier posts. I passed the test on 4th June and have been waiting for CT completion to reflect on eCAS (my wife's eCAS shows CT completed, but not mine). Today, I received a request letter in an email from some Officer SBR (IRCC) asking me to email back the color scanned copy of all pages of my passport (in pdf format). I was asked to send it within 14 days. But of'course I couldn't give them any reason to delay my app, so I sent it within 15minutes. Let us see what happens next. Will keep you posted.

First sentence of the letter:
In order for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to continue the process of your citizenship application, scanned copies or photos of all passport(s) and travel document(s) pages held during your five (5) years eligibility period are required.

i remember that at the beginning we needed to submit all photos of each passport page that has a stamp on together with our application. Didn’t you do that? Or they asked for the same thing twice :S

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

i remember that at the beginning we needed to submit all photos of each passport page that has a stamp on together with our application. Didn’t you do that? Or they asked for the same thing twice :S

You only submit the bio pages of the passport with the citizenship application, not all the pages. They might ask for all pages of passport later in the process if they see the need.

 

[rajneeshv]

You only submit the bio pages of the passport with the citizenship application, not all the pages. They might ask for all pages of passport later in the process if they see the need.

You are right.

 

[Georgesand]

You only submit the bio pages of the passport with the citizenship application, not all the pages. They might ask for all pages of passport later in the process if they see the need.

Oh right. It’s been so long that I forgot what I submitted lol

 

[tm.bilal]

We got our test invite today. Here it is what happened... 3 days back I called customer care.. then next day I got my fingerprint request and then in 2 days got Test invite.