Recent content by garbimba

You will probably be OK. I have a family member who applied from the US with no status and had no problems applying and entering from over there without having to go back to her country of citizenship. Just make sure you're honest in your application especially the Background Declaration.

Thanks. Just hang in there. Your LPP was completed right after mine, so it's coming anytime now.

Hi! Yes I was just going to ask if you received the invitation. Just received it today for 6 September, virtual ceremony! :)

Same here. Waiting for oath and LPP showed completed as of 21 July. We should be in the next invitee list for the oath, so hang in there. This office is normally slow from what others have said, but now we just play the final waiting game :(

You may be able to get an emergency passport. Otherwise change your flight. I don't recommend reschedule your oath.

Got passport request on 20 July, and sent it right away. on 25 July, LPP was updated to complete with a date of 21 July. Hopefully will invitation for oath soon.

Unless you're a crown servant, or Canadian military working in the US, then she needs to comeback to Canada and be physically present here to qualify for Canadian citizenship.

Finally some movement in Ottawa. Just received citizenship test invitation for my wife's application.

By law, to enter my country of origin I have to use that passport. I can't enter as Canadian unfortunately, and if I do, I get fined and they may not allow me to leave. But the border officers in Canada have never given me any trouble since becoming a citizen. They used to be very annoying when...

I'm surprised they gave you a hard time as a Canadian Citizen. Maybe if you had travel as a PR, but even then, you went to Cuba, not to Hungary, so why do they care about your status before you became citizen? Sounds like shitty border agents to me who just wanted to annoy you. With that being...

I didn't say press on any decision, but in my case they were able to put pressure on fixing their mistake, and literally sent me the document the same day that they contacted them. But I guess not every constituent office puts the same effort on what they can do, or maybe in my case it was...

Contact your local MP. I went to mine because they had lost my wife's CoPR and were playing dumb, and the staff was really helpful. I was told they have a direct line to CIC and the VOs, so they can really dig into what is taking them so long, and put pressure when possible, especially if it's...

You need to be present for the marriage, so get it done while you are visiting.

Finally after the mistake from CPC Ottawa of losing our CoPR we received it yesterday and went across the border on Prescottto complete the landing. I had to involve my MP's office and thanks to that they were able to expedite resending the document, otherwise who knows how long we would have...

So they finally reached back to me from CPC Ottawa by email after almost a month. Basically I have to resend all documents to get my wife's COPR reissued because it looks like they lost the original one (or don't want to look for it). All i can say is that I'm thankful she is from a visa exempt...