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After over 25 months of waiting, my partner became a citizen last week :D Now to apply for the passport!

I can share an anecdotal example, my partner also explained in his (virtual) interview ~1 month ago that he was living abroad and the IRCC officer told him "that's not good enough" and seemed pretty grumpy about it. However, everything got marked complete the next day following his interview and...

How do you know it's at the Scarborough office if you haven't received an email yet?

My partner has the same visa office and oath date. Hoping it's for an in-person ceremony!

Is there any other examples on this forum of people doing the pilot program? My partner was invited for an online interview and I'm wondering if he should try to change to in person so that he might be eligible for it

After the test getting marked as complete, does anyone know whether the status tracker or ECAS tracker gets updated first?

I didn't say people can't study and pass unless they went to school here, just that they probably wouldn't find it as easy as someone who did. My word of caution was just to tell people they should definitely study and not blow it off because everyone claims the test is so easy! Remembering...

It was marked complete in the tracker as of Mar 28, so the turnaround was fairly quick.

My partner completed his exam on Friday, 3/25 (first day available) and got a 20/20. He didn't go to school in Canada so he studied quite a bit and still thought some of the questions were tricky, but thankfully his score didn't reflect that :p I know everyone seems to say the test is easy but...

That's quick! Was your application urgent processing?

My partner finally got his test invite activity updated yesterday (March 17) to take the test between March 25 and April 14th. Finally moved past the curse of April 23!

For those who have ordered GCMS notes and have gotten past the dreaded April 23, did you see movement in your application prior to the deadline listed? The GCMS notes listed a deadline last week that came and went but the online tracker is still stuck on April 23 (no test invite yet). Does this...

Are there examples of people not having any updates even after their due dates have passed? i.e. my partner was in process March 17 with background check completed on April 12, does that mean he might expect at least a test invite by sometime in December? Currently his application is stuck on...

Some great news, it looks like IRCC is continuing to chip away at the citizenship backlog :D

I made it based on data I've been scraping from this page over the past 6 months https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/check-status.html

It's based on this (assuming an adult who applied for a grant of citizenship and has received an AOR). So the latest update is today (10/26/21) and it says they are finalizing most applications received between July 21 and 27, 2019. The "days behind" refers to that difference in days (i.e. how...

https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/november-2020-citizenship-application.708896/post-9778319

Here's a small glimmer of hope for everyone. I've been tracking the pace at which IRCC is tackling their citizenship backlog and for the first time since April 2021 it looks like they are clearing applications faster than they are coming in :D

Maybe they will start to care more if people give up on Canada and move somewhere else.

April 23rd is the date they must have loaded everyone's status into the new tracker.