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Be sure to be prepared to make H&C arguments, or otherwise explain why you were outside Canada and why this is your earliest opportunity to return. Be sure to have any documentation supporting this (such as, for example, pertinent medical records if explanation involves a medical reason) in your...

Big ditto the response by CanV. The amount of supporting documentation necessary to show where one has been living, working, and otherwise physically located, should not be a huge document dump. The most important documentation would ordinarily be less than a tenth what you indicate, and that...

Provisions in Bill C-24 transferring much of the decision-making in citizenship cases to the Minister (in practice meaning CIC Citizenship Officers), and reducing the role of Citizenship Judges, took effect on August 1, 2014. All citizenship applicants were referred to a Citizenship Judge...

Re: extent to which POE officers are likely to issue 44(1) reports followed by the issuance of a Removal Order: I address the procedure pursuant to which the Removal Order is issued toward the end of this long post. This is hardly off-topic, but really goes to the core of how the PR...

The File Preparation Analysis Template is specifically used in residency cases to make the referral to a Citizenship Judge. As already said, this does not necessarily indicate there will be a hearing with a Citizenship Judge. But, I am curious if there is a date, since the date this was done...

The post by screech339 made me realize that I probably overlooked the main concern in the oldfriend query: To be clear: All current applicants, and indeed all those who make an application before the date the 4-out-of-6 requirement takes effect, will indeed have their applications processed...

Emphatically agree that when to apply is a personal decision. Even for applicants who have reached the 1095 days APP threshold, waiting can be the better thing to do. I did, more than an additional year. And I think it made the difference, one of the things that made the difference anyway (part...

There are several other topics in which Bill C-24 is discussed, including in particular a topic about its effective date. Many of its provisions are now in force and being applied. Some key provisions in particular took effect August 1st. These include those giving the Minister authority to...

Observations: A key element, perhaps the key element, at stake in this challenge, is that Bill C-24 implemented grounds for revoking citizenship based not on the validity of the individual's citizenship, but based on the conduct of a citizen while a citizen. In other words, grounds for...

I concur in the observations offered by Rob_TO But I would further note: If you have not been in Canada since the fall of 2011, it is virtually certain a 44(1) Report will be issued at the airport POE AND also at that time a Removal Order. The reason for this is the absence from Canada for...

Rob_TO pretty well covered it. But here is my typically longer, more detailed response: If a 44(1) Report (report of inadmissibility due to breach of residency obligation) is issued at the POE, that is usually followed in short order (there at the POE) by a Removal Order, the PR will be...

A Permanent Resident of Canada generally must be allowed entry into Canada. The problem with not having a currently valid PR card is getting to a Canadian POE, since commercial transportation is required to check all passengers on Canada-bound flights for authorization to enter Canada before...

When responding to RQ or any other request from CIC it is important to carefully read and follow the instructions in the specific form actually received from CIC. In particular, the RQ form itself has changed multiple times in the last few years, and there are some indications different forms...

Am quoting the original post and query, below, because it best outlines the issue raised and relevant considerations pertinent to applying with less than 1095 days APP (actual physical presence). Such applications are commonly referred to shortfall applications. As others have indicated, these...

Correction: In the previous post I said that one of the two presence requirements for the grant of citizenship, once the remaining provisions of Bill C-24 take effect, is: There are 2190 days in six years, not 1825 (1825 is five years). Thus, that should read: 1) 1460 days in the preceding...

Once an applicant has been issued RQ and has what generally is thought of as a residency case, the range of what is relevant information is expansive, and in effect reaches any issue or factor which may directly or indirectly be considered in weighing evidence (including especially weighing the...

The presence requirements are conjunctive, meaning they both must be met. There are two presence requirements: 1) 1460 days in the preceding 1825 days (four years total out of the preceding six) 2) 183 days in each of four calendar years that are fully or partially within the six years...

To be clear, I should have noted that just leaving Canada itself should not result in a Residency Examination in which the previous period of absence, in effect forgiven by the adjudication ruling there were sufficient H&C grounds, is considered. That is, just leaving will not in itself put the...

Issue: PR issued 44(1) report and Removal Order, Removal Order successfully appealed based on H&C grounds: In contrast: I am no expert, no lawyer, but having followed the few, sporadically published Federal Court and IAD decisions there are in PR Removal Order cases based on inadmissibility...

Perhaps I did not get it. Thought I did. My sense was that your description was deliberately illustrating what many criticize CIC is not but should be, and that canuck_in_uk was laughing at that as well-deserved sarcasm. And my statement, at the risk of being flip ("what does that have to do...