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If you use the PR card as an ID document for a minor, the secondary ID must be a Canadian ID. So, her health card (best choice per chat boards) or school records count. Or anything with Name and Date of Birth. We submitted hospital records (with name and date of birth, which they did not accept).

Apply for PR for the baby now. At the end of the year apply for citizenship for you and your wife. Once your citizenship is finished, and your baby has PR, you can turn around and immediately apply for citizenship for your baby. If a parent is a Canadian Citizen, the child does not need to meet...

Your child needs to apply for pr. If you intend to keep your baby long term in Canada, they need to get a record when they cross the border, which you use in the application for pr. I can't remember what it is called, but it can take 1-2 hours to get it from the border agent. You should not have...

you aren't going to like this reply, I seem to be an outlier. We got eCopr in January, and my children's PR cards have still not been sent to us.

Fantastic! Around 4 months processing! This is what someone else reported who had filed at the end of 2021. Congratulations!

This is normal, it means their citizenship has been approved. When you send in the PR cards, they will send back their citizenship certificates. Adults have to destroy their PR cards at their oath ceremony. When did they apply?

I am not sure you have to wait for the Indian Passport to apply for the Canadian Certificate. See scenario 3 in this document: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/pdf/kits/citizen/cit0014e-2.pdf

I'm assuming that there are two different offices: one that is responsible for printing PR cards, one that needs to make sure that I don't have both a PR card and a Citizenship Certificate. You are assuming that these two processes can be coordinated (or can you point me to a thread where they...

I'm confused by this response. It is pretty clear that the last step in the process for minor children is to mail in their PR cards, with the Citizenship Certificate mailed out shortly after PR cards are sent in. If we can't mail in the PR cards, that will delay the process. Some people have...

Only a problem in that it will delay the process. Yes, we've received AOR for the citizenship application.

There is nothing else to do but tell the truth. Is there a way to speed up the PR card processing? We are already outside their normal processing times.

My children have a citizen parent, but were not born citizens. In February, they got PR, and we immediately submitted their application for citizenship. We are still waiting for their PR cards. What happens if their citizenship file is complete, and we are requested to mail in their PR cards...

I agree - I can see no downside for having dual Canadian/US citizenship. If you leave Canada, they may not be able to file later (even if you have become a citizen), or if they turn 18 and leave Canada they can lose their PR, say if they want to go to college in the US. But if they are dual...

Got eCopr inside Canada at the end of January. Mid February I got my PR card. Still waiting for my two children.

You never know when there will be family emergency. It is never wise to let travel documents expire.

You could search this forum for experiences similar to yours. Some people take the test outside Canada, and then have to specify when they will return. Some people are interviewed. Nobody can give any guarantees what will happen with your case. Only you know how easy/hard it is for you to...

If your child became a PR, and then you applied for citizenship on their behalf, they are a citizen by naturalization. Their citizenship is not 'tainted' like yours, rather, they are more of a 'true' citizen than you are and they will be able to pass on their citizenship (unless the laws...

There are only two ways for a child to be/become a citizen. They can qualify for citizenship at birth or they can immigrate. Citizenship at birth: If they are born in Canada. If they are born abroad, while having a parent who is a citizen who can also pass down citizenship. There are some...

I believe you have 90 days from original submission to just resubmit, otherwise you need to redo the cover page. I am so sorry it took so long for them to get back to you.

A returned application due to minor ID is quite common. It happened to us, and I was surprised at how many people on the chat boards had submitted two IDs that were on the government webpage, and still had it returned (such as a passport and provincial health card). We provided a passport...