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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    For @Keliwal Depending on other aspects of your situation, and how important the timeline is to you, it is probably time to hire (pay for) a lawyer to review your case in detail, discuss the status of the application, and give you advice about what options you have. Among potential options...
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    Regd 5 year eligibility period

    Some Clarifications . . . the long read In general terms, the previous two posts by @sodapop123, and @Seym respectively, are important observations in regards to resubmitting a returned application, and in regards to a PR living outside Canada when applying or moving outside Canada soon after...
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    2.5 Years Stuck in the Security

    You have been active in the 2023 Citizenship Applications thread where various efforts to push IRCC to advance processing, including those related to pursuing mandamus relief, have been discussed at-length. Given your timeline, unless you are willing to wait on IRCC (and probably CSIS) to...
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    Residency Obligations - Bank statements

    Since the instructions specify providing just two items ("two pieces of evidence"), obviously a NOA (one NOA) from one of the previous five years would constitute one of the two items. That is, any one CRA NOA "for the five (5) years immediately before the application" is an example of one of...
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    Is providing CBSA useful?

    We do not know anywhere near enough about the underlying criteria that triggers complex or non-routine steps in processing grant-citizenship applications to definitively identify a lot of the factors or circumstances that can lead to delays. Some are obvious, of course, which includes various...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    . Main thing: lawyer-up: To pursue the extraordinary Writ of Mandamus in an effort to compel IRCC to advance processing a grant-citizenship application, obtaining paid for input from a qualified immigration lawyer with experience in litigating complex grant-citizenship application issues is...
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    Residency Obligation Shortfall Due to Prolonged Health Issues ( Got PR in March 2022 - now not in Canada, now in my Home Country) - Seeking Advice

    . Overall: recognize that how it goes is specific to the particular individual. Similar cases can illuminate procedural aspects but not offer much insight into how this will go in your case (or any other individual case) given the extent to which individual variables will influence how it...
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    Has anyone been through a similar situation after receiving a 44(1) report? URGENT ‼️

    . I have not had a similar experience, but am familiar with numerous similar cases and I understand the process other than what is kept behind the confidentiality curtain. The response by @Ayomide101 covers the essentials, so far as we know. That said, what IRCC does in cases like this, more...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    Your assumption is erroneous. As for your opinion, well, probably good that you admit it's opinion, thus FWIW (regarding which I will withhold my opinion of its worth, consistent with my effort to focus on information more than opinion). I do not need repeated advice about what information to...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    This is more for those who offer informational help here . . . There is no doubt that Canadian immigration officials generally approach enforcement of the PR Residency Obligation with leniency and flexibility, much more than IRCC citizenship officers and Citizenship Judges approach assessing...
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    PR Residency Obligation: COPR June 2024, PR Card Jan 2025

    . There is no shortage of forum participants who similarly did what many call a "soft-landing" when they became a PR. There are scores and scores of their queries and responses here. I am not among them, but I have been following RO compliance and enforcement, including actual cases as well as...
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    IRPA 28(2)(a)(ii) Calculation: Soft Landing Only + Co-habitation with Citizen Spouse Prior to Divorce

    . There are cases in which IRCC requested additional information from sponsors to show they had plans to relocate to Canada, going back more than five years, more than a decade. These are illustrated by the relatively unusual, but occasional anecdotal reports attendant queries in this forum...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    . Generally being required to participate in an interview does not, not in itself, signal there is a serious issue. Remember, until Covid ALL adult applicants were interviewed. Generally, those who are interviewed just need to be prepared to present originals of all documents submitted and...
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    IRPA 28(2)(a)(ii) Calculation: Soft Landing Only + Co-habitation with Citizen Spouse Prior to Divorce

    . Your observation might not be based on conflating different processes, but it is nonetheless confusing in regards to which processing you are discussing or how your observation applies to @Robert278462 (the OP). It is not clear what "situation" you are referring to here. In particular, so...
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    IRPA 28(2)(a)(ii) Calculation: Soft Landing Only + Co-habitation with Citizen Spouse Prior to Divorce

    . For professional guidance, pay a lawyer to review your particular situation in detail. (Free consultations are worth little if any more than what is paid for them.) I am not a Canadian lawyer. I am no immigration expert. Otherwise . . . what is confidently known includes . . . recognizing...
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