October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

[joshuamathew]

Vancouver office and located in Kelowna

 

[tobiashenry]

Location: Vancouver/Toronto
App. Type: Single
Physical Presence Days: 1099.5
App Sent: Oct 14, 2024
App Delivered: Oct 14, 2024
AOR: Oct 25, 2024
Ghost Update: Jan 1, 2025
Background Completed: Jan 2, 2025
Test Update: Jan 2, 2025
Test Scheduled: Jan 10, 2025 - Feb 9, 2025
Test Completed: Jan 10, 2025
Test Completed Marked on Tracker: Jan 17, 2025
Test Completed Reflected on Tracker: Jan 21, 2025
Passport Scanned Copy Request: Jan 31, 2025
Interview Invite: Feb 13, 2025
Interview Schedule: Mar 13, 2025
Interview Reschedule: Mar 25, 2025
Interview Completed: Mar 25, 2025
LPP: March 25, 2025 (reflected on tracker on March 27, 2025)
Oath Letter: April 2, 2025 (from SCR office)
Oath Date: April 14, 2025 (Virtual Ceremony)

Finally the day - got my e-cert within 45 minutes!
Pretty fast - kudos to SCR staff!

 

[usmm]

hi i have question about non routine application can any one have idea how long its take and why they put non routine if they dont want extra documents thanks

 

[moman21]

It's possible they got some instruction / decided internally to take some 'line' for completion (eg LPP already complete) and not try to push any before that stage to completion before election. The writ was published the 23rd, I think - so would match.

Only speculation. I can think of a dozen different justifications/reasons they could cite or use for this, up to and including avoiding any accusation of 'pushing through votes for the government'. They'd also get some accusations of doing the opposite, of course. The worst would be if they got the accusation of doing it preferentially for some ridings over others.

If they did have something like this, I'd hope they had some policy in place (long) beforehand, such that they can defend the civil service of any accusations after the election is done. If they did have such a policy - eg instructions from ages before an election stating criteria and that decision shall be made by Deputy Minister or clerk of the privy council with no input from political level - then they're more or less shielded.

I'd bet that there is some version of this - but it would be hard to bet on the precise form, harder still to bet on this information coming out in a usable form (to settle that bet).

But very logical and would be high-level civil service professionalism.

That's sad if this is the case because processing applications should have no impact in federal elections, particularly if all they are doing is taking it to the LPP stage. They could also schedule oaths AFTER the election date for all cases processed in March and April so as to avoid any accusations. There are options besides completely halting the processing which seems to be the case. I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me. Regardless of who is in power, Canada needs immigrants and citizens to survive the baby boomers retiring and dying off. It's not like immigration will be halted all of a sudden. And any changes to make citizenship harder to obtain would not be retroactive. Plus they are just exasperating the backlog by growing it even more.

 

[Tokyo101]

It is showing the error for me when I try to login, but my husband can access his tracker and he just got the oath date today: April 14. We are in Vancouver.
I think I probably got it as well, since our last updates after the test were all the same and same day.
So far, no email.

hey did you do your oath today? I was wondering if you could update me when you get your E Certificate.
I did my oath APR 14 too and I want to follow up in regards to the e certificate.
Thanks

 

[Paranoid-1989]

I applied on October 16. The last update was February 13. The BG and Prohibitions are still in progress, called IRCC and they said that BG is in progress, not much information. Applied for GCMS on April 9, will wait to see what's going on.
Anyone still waiting from October for LPP or BG? Please share thoughts, should I be concerned or it's pretty normal with other people too.

 

[armoured]

That's sad if this is the case because processing applications should have no impact in federal elections, particularly if all they are doing is taking it to the LPP stage. They could also schedule oaths AFTER the election date for all cases processed in March and April so as to avoid any accusations. There are options besides completely halting the processing which seems to be the case. I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me. Regardless of who is in power, Canada needs immigrants and citizens to survive the baby boomers retiring and dying off. It's not like immigration will be halted all of a sudden. And any changes to make citizenship harder to obtain would not be retroactive. Plus they are just exasperating the backlog by growing it even more.

Keep in mind it is speculation on my part.

Scheduling oaths after the election date? Then they could be accused of delaying citizenship and votes - presumably for some subset of voters (with uneven geographic distribution hence voting impact). No, to do it, they would have to do so in some way that creates a gap - files that were not so far along that they'd be likely to get citizenship (without unusual effort or just plain luck) paused so there doesn't appear to be any unseemly rush.

And as for 'halting' - if my guess or something like it is/was correct, it would effectively be only a pause, not a very long one at that, and within the periods they suggested as processing times. If the dates suggested above, and if it held straight to election day (which it wouldn't need to), it would only be slightly over a month.

Note, they're still doing oath ceremonies - so if (again hypothetically - speculation!) they unleash the approvals after the election, there'd likely be movement fast to scheduling / filling up the slots for ceremonies afterwards (for those upcoming ceremonies they have't filled, if there has been a pause).

Don't get me wrong though - I'm not saying I like this, or that someone thought it necessary at all. But it is an actual fact that due to the relative stances of the parties, how many new Canadians vote and where is not a politically neutral question - alas. (I know which party I'd tend to blame for that, one where I frequently encounter claims about the other parties 'stuffing the ballot box' with immigrants - usually not as an outright official position, but just beneath the polite official surface, accusations of conspiracies).

I'd have preferred if the parties could get together and state publicly that they want as many Canadians to vote as possible, including new Canadians, and they'd like to see IRCC burn the candle wax to get those files done and wouldn't dare complain.

But that is not - alas - the world we live in at present. Given that - the civil service has a responsibility to ensure that it isn't seen to have its fingers on the scale, and if they thought it necessary, does not seem a crazy step to me.

Again though - speculation.

 

[moman21]

People were asking about what the new passport looks like?
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-passports/new-passport-features.html
Pretty neat.

 

[thv]

I applied on October 16. The last update was February 13. The BG and Prohibitions are still in progress, called IRCC and they said that BG is in progress, not much information. Applied for GCMS on April 9, will wait to see what's going on.
Anyone still waiting from October for LPP or BG? Please share thoughts, should I be concerned or it's pretty normal with other people too.

Same with me. I am still waiting BG and Prohibitions. Others were completed in Mar

 

[USProgrammer]

I mailed my ballot today and my passport application was delivered today to Gatineau.

 

[sega3500c]

It's possible they got some instruction / decided internally to take some 'line' for completion (eg LPP already complete) and not try to push any before that stage to completion before election. The writ was published the 23rd, I think - so would match.

Only speculation. I can think of a dozen different justifications/reasons they could cite or use for this, up to and including avoiding any accusation of 'pushing through votes for the government'. They'd also get some accusations of doing the opposite, of course. The worst would be if they got the accusation of doing it preferentially for some ridings over others.

If they did have something like this, I'd hope they had some policy in place (long) beforehand, such that they can defend the civil service of any accusations after the election is done. If they did have such a policy - eg instructions from ages before an election stating criteria and that decision shall be made by Deputy Minister or clerk of the privy council with no input from political level - then they're more or less shielded.

I'd bet that there is some version of this - but it would be hard to bet on the precise form, harder still to bet on this information coming out in a usable form (to settle that bet).

But very logical and would be high-level civil service professionalism.

thanks your almost done best of luck

Never say "gop" before finishing your jumps. My LPP is November 27 , ceremony not started.

 

[wizardofwest90210]

hello, I already received my oath letter last week, and the oath is next week. I have yet to receive the email that allows me to download my e-certificate. However, when I logged into my IRCC portal, i could see a link to download e-certificate. Did they forget to send me the e-cert email? What information does this email actual have? For e.g., any special instructions etc? Thanks!

 

[saini1987]

I have my oath scheduled for 24th April, and today I got an email from the Calgary office. Has anyone received an invitation for Citizenship to Passport Pilot? I got an email for that. Going to send the application form and details for the passport before the oath.

 

[gafmak]

I applied on October 16. The last update was February 13. The BG and Prohibitions are still in progress, called IRCC and they said that BG is in progress, not much information. Applied for GCMS on April 9, will wait to see what's going on.
Anyone still waiting from October for LPP or BG? Please share thoughts, should I be concerned or it's pretty normal with other people too.

I'm still waiting for my BG and Prohibition, too. LP completed in Jan 15th.

 

[Aswer]

Location: Vancouver/Toronto
App. Type: Single
Physical Presence Days: 1099.5
App Sent: Oct 14, 2024
App Delivered: Oct 14, 2024
AOR: Oct 25, 2024
Ghost Update: Jan 1, 2025
Background Completed: Jan 2, 2025
Test Update: Jan 2, 2025
Test Scheduled: Jan 10, 2025 - Feb 9, 2025
Test Completed: Jan 10, 2025
Test Completed Marked on Tracker: Jan 17, 2025
Test Completed Reflected on Tracker: Jan 21, 2025
Passport Scanned Copy Request: Jan 31, 2025
Interview Invite: Feb 13, 2025
Interview Schedule: Mar 13, 2025
Interview Reschedule: Mar 25, 2025
Interview Completed: Mar 25, 2025
LPP: March 25, 2025 (reflected on tracker on March 27, 2025)
Oath Letter: April 2, 2025 (from SCR office)
Oath Date: April 14, 2025 (Virtual Ceremony)

Finally the day - got my e-cert within 45 minutes!
Pretty fast - kudos to SCR staff!

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