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    Citizenship Interview - Experience?

    Hello, I was just checking my tracker today and saw a note that Citizenship Interview is required for both of us (my husband and myself). I haven't gotten the email & am expecting it to come in the next few hours/days. Just wanted to prep ahead of that to see if anyone else has recently...
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    August 2024 - Citizenship Application

    Per the sheet, the last folks to receive oath invites are around November 22. I know there are a couple of folks with LPP completion dates around November 28/29 that are still waiting for their oath. The holidays have understandably appeared to have added another week or two of delay. So you...
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    Scans of all passport pages for citizenship app

    If you have traveled frequently (such as cross border worker or similar) and you are close to the threshold date, then expect to be asked for the scans of all pages in your passport. If that scenario doesn’t apply to you, I wouldn’t preemptively give anything.
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    Niagara Falls IRCC Office - Join this thread

    From analyzing the data in the tracker, I see the most recent oath invites are from around November 22. So I'm guessing yours is going to come in the next week or so assuming everything is good with the background and not including additional time that for holidays?. Do you mind sharing your...
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    Niagara Falls IRCC Office - Join this thread

    Anyone in this office received updates? Trying to gauge which applications are being processed now. I see some folks who had LPP completed in September being scheduled. Anyone else have updates?
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    When you log in to the portal, at the top right corner, there is a "last updated on:" field. When there is an update on that field but you don't see any updates in your language, prohibitions, test or background that's called as a ghost update. It is typically indicative of your application...
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    i see test invite in the portal but haven't received the email yet. weirdly there were no ghost updates this week but my portal now says some update was made on december 11.
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    If it helps, in my case it wasn't a representative but I had submitted my PR using a different email address (my own). Even though I created the tracker using a separate email address, my verification codes were going to the old email address that I had used for my very first IRCC case (back...
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    Hey just FYI, I had this exact issue. My application was found but I wasn’t getting verification email. Turns out that the verification emails with the code were going to my old email address ( the one that I had used for my previous PR tracker account). Once I figured that out, I just input the...
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    Niagara Falls IRCC Office - Join this thread

    Is there a whatsapp group for this office? Could someone share the link? We live in SE Ontario and expect our documents to be processed in the NGF office.
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    Type: Online application Location: Windsor Physical presence days: 1104 Application: Family (3) Application sent: Oct 12, 2024 AOR: Oct 24, 2024
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    USA Police Certificate - FBI - finger print card( FD 258 form)

    We did it through a fingerprinting technician because the fingerprints need to be rolled and in general lay people can rarely get it right. There are multiple nationwide organizations like Commissionaires that do the FBI form. That’s who we did it with. Some local PDs also offer it as a...
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    OCI for minors with foreign citizenship at birth: Original passport submission

    Requesting assistance as I didn’t see this asked before. Are parents & minors’ original foreign passports required to be sent to the consulate? I’m finding conflicting information in 2 separate document checklists so wanted to confirm. We have travel plans so would rather keep the passports...
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    Hi, not sure how to update the excel with our details? Can someone clarify. It opens read only for me
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    September 2024 Citizenship Applications

    Did you move to Canada from the US immediately after doing your landing or did you do something like flag poling and moved to Canada after 183 days? In my case, for example, we received PR in September 2018 but didn’t move to Canada until September 2021 which I understand means that we will need...