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I respectfully disagree :) The key phrase here is "on the balance of probabilities", meaning is it more likely than not. The evidence before the officer was sufficient to decide that. The CBSA report may help prove almost conclusively that these were the precise return dates, but that is NOT...

Wow, this a special kind of stupid, and so unnecessary. Those foreign country stamps and your evidence (what you put on the form and told the officer in person) is more than enough for any fair-minded person to conclude on the balance of probabilities, the appropriate onus in these cases, that...

The CBSA records are notoriously incomplete, but travel via air appears to be recorded more consistently than land crossings, so chances are those two entries into Canada will be in there. Even if they aren't, CIC is aware of this issue and I doubt they'll make a big deal out of it.

Hi all, Every once in a while I would see someone discussing the pre-2012 (or pre-2006) days, and saying that back then CIC never bothered to scrutinize applications that may have been 100 or so days short of strict physical presence, except perhaps where there was real reason to suspect...

That's a very interesting question indeed, and many on this forum have wondered about it. Every time I spoke to a citizenship officer while crashing a ceremony here in Edmonton, I have asked if the citizenship judge still applied the Koo test, and the indication was that yes, people still can...

Parliament (well, the Conservative Government) has telegraphed its intentions in the summary to Bill C-24: I think at some point they will take an even harder stance, and argue that the Citizenship Act as it currently is already requires actual physical presence. The argument being that the...

Edmonton is quite possibly the worst local office. Waiting around two years for a test date was the norm for 2012 applicants (although I was extra "lucky" for some reason). They have improved the routine application wait times lately, but seem to have put the old non-routine applicants on a...

Don't feel too bad, there are much worse cases, much worse than mine even: Applied: August 14, 2012 In Process: March 15, 2014 Test: September 11, 2014 CIT 520: September 11, 2014 Responded to CIT 520: October 2, 2014 f*ck-all since then. Local office: Deadmonton Yeah, that's more than two...

The other day I had some business with an agency related to the CIC, and had the opportunity to talk to a guy who used to be a citizenship officer. I had mentioned him in an older post; he is now with the CBSA. While we were hanging out during a break I asked him how he thinks the new...

You are correct, of course. What I was pointing out was that the question concerned absences over the course of several years, and not 6 months out of a single year (CRA related).

Thank you for adding that. I was tempted to write something much along the same lines, but didn't want to confuse OP any further.

Because all adult applicants have to fill out the residency calculator, listing all their trips over the relevant period. For children, that requirement is not there, unless the child has been outside Canada for more than 6 months over the relevant period -- then they want you to fill out the...

It's obvious from the context of the form. If the child hasn't been outside of Canada for more than 6 months, you don't need to provide details of his or her absences. It simplifies things for those minor applicants who haven't been outside the country a whole lot.

Oh I beg to differ, it is a great question!!! February has the fewest days, so it stands to reason that it will have the fewest number of applicants. Now, 2016 is a leap year, so that February will have 29 days, which is obviously no good. Best thing for OP is wait until February, 2017 ;)

I am well aware that the major determining factor is the local office at which an application is processed. If not the Minister's, whose responsibility is it to ensure that resources are allocated fairly and efficiently? Even during the worst years, processing times for many applicants were...

FedEx is the best, in my opinion as well. I hate Purolator. A client had sent me time-sensitive documents by Purolator. They claimed to have attempted delivery but that the address was inaccessible or there was no one there. I am in an open-access office tower in the downtown core, our door...

OP, I am a little confused. If they applied 3 and 6 months ago, respectively, how have 9 months elapsed by now? In any event, you can't really draw any conclusions from two individual cases -- CIC works in mysterious ways, and yes, they do seem to think they are God.

VAtoCA, you got your oath letter in less than 5 months, so your feelings are understandable. It took me 25 months, routine application up to that point, to even have my test. I don't think racism is really a factor. I am of European ancestry, and there are many others lily-white applicants...

wilbur, you submitted your application only 3 months ago and obviously cannot relate to us "lifers" on this forum, which is fine. If you are in the GTA, chances are you'll become a citizen before this summer, which will be just great for you. For the rest of us that will add some more insult...

The CIC website currently lists the Vancouver ceremonies up to and including March 6, 2015. They obviously haven't posted yours yet. If they had already listed ceremonies for any dates beyond March 10, then it would be a little strange, but even then I would agree with what poison wrote --...