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Hi, Apologies if this question has been asked before. So, I am using the Physical Presence Calculator. Below is my information: Date of becoming PR: 2017-01-16 Five-year period according to the Calculator: 2016-07-02 and 2021-07-01 I did no lived in Canada between 2016-07-02 and the date I...

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/guide-5445-applying-permanent-resident-card-card-first-application-replacement-renewal-change-gender-identifier.html One (1) main identity document A photocopy of one of the following...

Oh shit. I know this is a slow processing office. I was hoping that interior BC might have a different processing office instead ...

Hi everyone, In about 3 weeks, I will be submitting my citizenship application. So exciting! I am currently living in Kamloops (moved here from Vancouver only 1 week ago actually), and this will be my place of residence for the foreseeable future. Would anyone happen to know where my...

That may or may not be the experience of the people on this forum. But we have to take official communications at face value. It only says "needing Canadian citizenship to APPLY for a job", not to ACCEPT a job offer, which are two different things. If CIC states the former, but means the latter...

I feel that this reflects very poorly on the competency of IRCC. If they say that "it’s not possible to apply for citizenship online without a direct invitation at the moment", then we have to take it at face value. Communication from a government agency must be clear, precise, and unambiguous...

So for the first category of urgent processing: apply for a job. I saw a job advert for a position with the Canadian government that requires Canadian citizenship. I would rather not mention here which department it is, except to say that citizenship status is not negotiable. So if I apply for...

Hi everyone, On the official IRCC website, the eligibility criteria for online citizenship applications are described as follows: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen.html What does the first point mean? That you...

As someone who will be eligible to apply in July, 2021, I am heartened by the news of the digitization of the citizenship application process.

It is all political posturing in the backdrop of anti-China fervor. The residents of Hong Kong, even with the imposition of the national security law, enjoy much greater freedom than many people/countries in the world – the fact that the 300,000 Canadian citizens living in Hong Kong are not...

Thank you everyone for the hard work in pushing IRCC to resume the processing of citizenship applications. I definitely agree that we need to get our voices heard. Unfortunately, often you have to squeak to get the grease. I won't be able to apply for citizenship until mid-2021, so this is not...

Also, I just want to point out that one of the people quoted/interviewed in that CBC article (Basel) is so handsome!!!:D. Is Basel in this thread too?? ;)

Don't read the comment section of newspaper articles. It's usually a cesspool of racists, xenophobes, and red-neck nutters.

Has anyone thought about contacting the media, such as the Globe and Mail?

The thing with Canada is that CBSA only started to implement exist control by air since this June! So their system does not have the complete information about people's movements into and out of the country.

I am puzzled to see that there are several threads on this subforum that are mainly about the application for non-Canadian citizenships/statuses. The explicit description of this subforum is "Learn about obtaining Canadian citizenship." Could people post topics about non-Canadian...

In terms of meeting the requirements, the PR status is substantially more difficult to obtain than citizenship, the latter mainly requiring you to live in Canada as a PR for 3 years. One thing I don't understand however, is why citizenship applications are still done only via paper whereas PR...

I am curious. How would they usually send this invitation? By email or regular mail? Did you check your spam folder (though after 6 months, I think it would have been deleted any way).

I think this is great news. Something positive is coming out of Covid-19.