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April 2021 - Citizenship applications

Strongfaith42

Champion Member
Mar 24, 2015
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I submitted my application via paper. Is it normal to still be waiting for AOR?
At this stage, nobody knows what is normal, all we can do is wait. You can check old ECAS, if you are able to find the information there, it means they have sent AOR and it probably went to your junk or your email address may be incorrect, if the information is not found in ECAS then that means that you need to keep waiting!!! :)
 

Iman.G

Hero Member
Aug 29, 2014
246
23
Category........
Visa Office......
Paris
NOC Code......
2174
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Nomination.....
14-11-2016
AOR Received.
05-12-2016
Med's Done....
13-12-2016
Passport Req..
19-03-2017
Hope everyone is doing great!

I just checked my ECAS and it's updated to "In Process", and the update is dated August 16. @Strongfaith42 , I would appreciate it if you update the spreadsheet :)

Quick note: the new dashboard still shows everything "In Progress" (obviously except for test and ceremony which are "Not Started")
 
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Iman.G

Hero Member
Aug 29, 2014
246
23
Category........
Visa Office......
Paris
NOC Code......
2174
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Nomination.....
14-11-2016
AOR Received.
05-12-2016
Med's Done....
13-12-2016
Passport Req..
19-03-2017
Quick update: I just checked the new dashboard and it shows BG Completed :)
 
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Finland

Hero Member
Sep 5, 2015
613
26
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
So this is the first one in April application he got he back ground check completed.
So do we expect that they started now in April ?
 

Iman.G

Hero Member
Aug 29, 2014
246
23
Category........
Visa Office......
Paris
NOC Code......
2174
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Nomination.....
14-11-2016
AOR Received.
05-12-2016
Med's Done....
13-12-2016
Passport Req..
19-03-2017
I have updated the spreadsheet, when was the BG verification completed? Thanks
ECAS shows the update was on August 16 and BG completed showed up in new dashboard on August 18.
 

new3b

Full Member
Jul 19, 2016
38
11
Please add to the tracker
Online application:

Location: Toronto
Physical Presence Days: 1105
Application: Single
Application sent: April 12, 2021
Delivered: April 12, 2021 (online)
5 Year Eligibility: Apr 12, 2016- Apr 11, 2021
AOR:
just got AOR, email shows it is on Aug 19, 2021.

please add it into tracker. Thanks.

And good luck to everyone!
 

vanonto

Newbie
Aug 19, 2021
3
0
Hi All,

Been following along this thread as I also applied in April online. Details below for tracker.

Please add to the tracker
Online application:

Location: Toronto
Physical Presence Days: 1122
Application: Single
Application sent: April 06, 2021
Delivered: April 06, 2021 (online)
5 Year Eligibility: Apr 06, 2016- Apr 05, 2021
AOR: Aug 19, 2021

I had called them last week as I noticed the big difference between days taken to issue the AOR between online and paper applications. They said they were aware of the issue and they acknowledged there was a backlog of online applications but they were addressing it and that it "won't lead to a delay in the process vs a paper application". I guess that remains to be seen but good to see they are starting to issue the AORs at least.