I have submitted the citizenship app for the minor child, yes, based on my understanding that no requirement to meet the 1095 days, just needs to be physically resident. Have not yet received aor or other correspondence.
I just received the application returned as incomplete because "photocopies of the child's identity documents are missing or are illegible."
Good to know, if they did their job well they'd expedite the application given that their don't seem to be any particular requirements that need to be met in your case (other than filling out the documents).
Yeah, though I'm not holding my breath for that. To be fair, it's not a critical thing for us, and I'd put citizenshp for those born abroad and getting temp passports etc at far higher priority.
I agree, the real culprit was Harper. My family has been in Canada for 120 years but because I happened to be born elsewhere I can't pass citizenship on to my kid? I assume you heard there is a challenge coming up in the courts about that? (it's paywalled but I know I read it on other news sources as well):
Funny, your info overlaps with mine. I think the number is 150 years or so in Canada (but after a hundred, who's counting), and I'm the only one born outside of Canada, moved back before I was a year old. Then apart from a year in high school, never spent any length of time outside Canada before a posting abroad. No-one in my immediate or extended family living or serious length of time outside Canada either.
There's a lot wrong with the amount of bureaucracy in Canada in my opinion. Your case sounds even more cut and dry than mine does. Hopefully they'll either fix the unfair law or speed up the immigration process. It's ridiculous that I'm still waiting to move with my family after a year and a half and nobody at the Canadian government has the decency to provide me with a real reason for the delay.
I don't know details of your family sponsorship case - but yes, another case of bureaucracy gone wrong is when there are very large differences between different offices. Mexico VO seems another problem one.
Sorry to bump this thread again but once again our paths have crossed. My sons also have two foreign passports and I intend on using them to fulfill the requirement of 2 pieces of ID. I assume you only included a single copy of the passports to fullfill the first requirement and (logically) assumed that they could use those same photocopies to fullfill the ID requirement? Reading through the guidelines it seems perfectly clear that I should be able to include two sets of photocopies of the passports to fullfill all requirements. If they don't accept that then the rules are not being explained correctly. What did you end up providing?
The issue (I believe) was that for the two pieces of ID, we used two passports (foreign - long story) which we had to provide anyway.
Thanks. It makes no mention of requiring Canadian documents, what makes you think that was the issue? In the end you provided the PR card and one foreign document (passport) and it was approved.
I'm not saying it was specifically the Canadian docs issue, just that for some reason they didn't 'count' the other one - I mean I think it was just a dumb mistake. Sorry if that wasn't clear. (If there's some other reason they didn't accept the second passport as second ID, I don't know what it was)
Thanks, no need to apologize. I'm just thinking that I'd like to apply for my kids' citizenship as soon as possible and the two passports are the easiest to produce immediately. I think I'll gamble when the time comes and submit two copies of each passport to fulfill both requirements.
