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Okay, guys. In Montreal they now have what they call CEN, Citizenship Exceptional Network. Files transferred there are residence cases and the staff at CEN is specially trained to review and assess the documents submitted in response to either an RQ or CIT 520. I will be very curious to see...

Depends on where in Canada you are, I think. Six or so months ago it used to take two years in Edmonton from application to test, now it's roughly 1 year. So there has been a definite improvement there. I don't know if that, or your personal observations have any validity, of course...

Bingo! I am not sure that CIT 520 applicants do not have much to be concerned about. CIT 520 may be a less intrusive request for documents, but there have been reports of people getting an RQ after their response to CIT 520 was received. I think I had mentioned before, that during one of my...

Thank you, everyone. I think the apology was, at least in part, a professional courtesy (I am also a lawyer), but it was welcome nevertheless. He, of all the people I have dealt with so far, was the least responsible for the delays, and I told him that I do appreciate his and everyone else's...

You can see my timeline in my signature. On April 20, I filed the Applicant's Record, the substantive part of my Federal Court application. Today, I was contacted by the lawyer at Justice Canada in charge of my file, who 1. sincerely apologized to me on behalf of the Govt. of Canada for the...

I forgot to mention something. When I crashed another citizenship ceremony the other day, a lady I know happened to be there taking her oath. She had renewed her passport and surrendered her old one, and that of course became an issue at her interview after the test. She was given CIT 0520 as...

djoli, I am so sorry to hear that, it must be absolutely maddening!!! Go and do a FOIA request right away. It takes about a month to a month and a half. So it would be absolutely imperative that you write the local office and tell them that you've requested the US records and you will be...

Slightly easier than regaining your virginity, I think... Seriously, I think once you lost your PR status, the only way to have it again is to apply anew through one of the existing PR programs.

I did find it hard to believe, but I think the idea is that sending a file to another local office is supposed to be a temporary thing, and the receiving office wouldn't accept those files if it couldn't do them within a short period of time. I was afraid, given that Montreal is receiving...

Hi all, Yesterday I learned that my file was also transferred to Montreal, from Edmonton, last week. I have communicated in the past with someone pretty high up in the CIC hierarchy, and shot him off an email last night. He has confirmed that this is a measure meant to expedite processing...

Because otherwise your file will not collect the requisite amount of dust... Duuhhh! I know for a fact that in a recent submission filed in Federal Court, the Applicant made that very point: "surely there must be some reciprocal duty on the Minister to act with comparable dispatch." ;D ;D ;D

Wow, congratulations. I called again today and happened upon a really reluctant agent who wouldn't tell me anything other than my application is in process. When I asked her what about my RCMP clearance, she told me that she has no access to those, sorry. What a lying sack of....

Thanks, cberger. Now, the RCMP clearance takes roughly a month to a month and a half to complete. The immigration clearance is almost instantaneous, I think. Are you able to confirm that they have not actually initiated the request to RCMP (or whatever), or could it be that the result isn't...

Does anyone know if there is some automatic alert that requires the local office to do renew a RCMP (or another type) of clearance? My RCMP clearance expired on April 1, and a request for renewal was done on April 2. By way of background, I applied in August, 2012, test on Sept 11, 2014 and...

In the summary at the top of the calculator printout the "Days absent" field reflects the half-day rule. The table at the bottom that lists the duration of all your trips ("Total # of days), in actual days, not accounting for the 1/2 credit for non-PR (NPR) time. "Days absent" (in summary)...

That REALLY needed to be said, thanks.

By the way, you can go to the Federal Court Registry in your city (assuming you live in a major one) and they can give you copies of any filed document. All you need to do is find the court file number of a case similar to yours and they will pull it up. Depending on how busy they are, they...

Please also keep in mind that under the new provisions of the Citizenship Act already in place, you have to clear one more hurdle, applying for leave. Basically, a judge will have to say yes, this person has an arguable case. If you are successful at that stage (and it's hard even when...

The event that mentioned in my original post took place last night. Unfortunately, Minister Alexander was not in attendance, it was Kellie Leitch, Minister of Labour. She had a brief speech followed by some Q&A. One of the questions concerned immigration, and her response was strange, to...

And that was absolutely the wise thing to do, my friend. Hope everything in the CBSA report checks out and you become a citizen in a couple of months.